Interview: Nani (Dasara)
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View ArticleInterview: MM Keeravani (RRR, Oscar-winner)
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View ArticleAnubhav Sinha’s ‘Bheed’, based on pandemic-migration, is a solid addition to...
Spoilers ahead… Though Rajkummar Rao plays the nominal protagonist and gets a small character-growth arc, this is a film that belongs to everyone, the ‘bheed’. Anubhav Sinha’s latest attempt at...
View ArticleInterview: SS Karthikeya (Rajamouli’s son, Line Producer of ‘RRR’), on how...
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View ArticleInterview: Anubhav Sinha, on his sine-curve reactions to ‘Ra.One’, his 2.0...
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View ArticleAjay Devgn crafts a sturdy (but generic) star vehicle out of Lokesh...
Spoilers ahead… The nicest change in ‘Bholaa’ is transforming the Narain character into a woman, and making her an action heroine. She shares butt-kicking duties with the hero. Ajay Devgn’s Bholaa...
View ArticleSrikanth Odela’s ‘Dasara’ is a solid, subdued star vehicle that favours...
Spoilers ahead… All actors are in top form, though Nani gets the meatiest role and bites into it with every fibre of his being, giving a performance that is as much physical as emotional. “Everyone...
View ArticleInterview: Vikramaditya Motwane, Aditi Rao Hydari, Prosenjit Chatterjee, et...
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View ArticleGunasekhar’s underwhelming ‘Shaakuntalam’ needed more cinematic vision to be...
Spoilers ahead… Samantha has a lovely, fragile screen presence, but oddly, Shakuntala seems to register the least in this story. This is such a meek protagonist. Gunasekhar’s Shaakuntalam, based on the...
View ArticleReaders Write In #569: Dil Chahta Hai: Narrators and Memories
By Kartik Iyer Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai released in 2001. I was three years old. My family went to watch it. They took me along. Watching the film is one of my earliest memories as a human being....
View ArticleReaders Write In #570: Golden Ages and all that jazz
By Aman Basha The words golden age themselves seem to age very poorly, or is it just me not hearing enough amrit kaal anymore? But the perception of a golden age, while not as polarizing as it could be...
View ArticleAs generic star vehicles go, Farhad Samji’s ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’...
Spoilers ahead… The advantage of remaking something is that you can fix the flaws, and no one seems interested in that. But one aspect of the writing is that it keeps things moving and relatively...
View ArticleReaders Write In #571: Web Series Review – Jubilee – Of Mice and Men, Of...
By Neeraj S Iyer ‘Guilt, Pride, Alienation, Lonesomeness, Anger, Opportunities’ have often been the primary motifs that fuel the narrative of Vikramaditya Motwane’s thought-provoking films. Oftentimes,...
View ArticleInterview: Mani Ratnam / AR Rahman (PS-1, PS-2, 30+ years of working together…)
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View ArticleMani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan 2’ is more dramatic, sadder and more serious...
Spoilers ahead… Mani Ratnam amps down the aural drama and amps up the visual drama. Even by this director’s legendary standards, the staging is something else. Mani Ratnam has credited SS Rajamouli...
View ArticleReaders Write In #574: PS-2 and why it is riddled with the same problems...
By Gnanaozhi The movie simply didn’t work for me. It has a severe GoT season 5-8 problem. Seasons 1-4 were sublime, it adapted the books faithfully but the Showrunners added some minor twists of their...
View ArticleReaders Write In #575: PS-2 comes out with the soul intact
By Raghu Narayanan Well, it worked for me…big time! Compared movie to movie, I will say PS-2 is better than PS-1. But then, saying that will be somewhat merciless because the unravelling of the plot...
View ArticleAnup Singh’s ‘The Song of Scorpions’ (Irrfan Khan, Golshifteh Farahani) is a...
Spoilers ahead… Few actors are as good as Irrfan at portraying fundamental decency. We saw that quality in ‘The Namesake’. We saw that quality in ‘The Lunchbox’. And we see it here. Anup Singh’s...
View ArticleInterview: Sriram and Shridhar Raghavan
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View ArticleInterview: Vijay Antony (Pichaikkaran 2)
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