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Interview: Vignesh Raja (Storyboard Por Thozhil)
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Sanjay Narayanan’s exquisite and moving ‘Maalai Nera Mallipoo’ draws us into the psychology of the sex worker.
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Karthik G Krish’s ‘Takkar’ is full of good ideas, but none are convincingly executed
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Directed by Vignesh Raja, ‘Pol Tozil’ (Sarathkumar, Ashok Servan) is a solid, well-crafted serial killer thriller with enough pluses to overcome its problems.
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Interview: Siddharth (Thakar)
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Reader Post #585: Book Review: Plassey – The Battle That Changed the Course of Indian History
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Interview: Hansal Mehta / Writer Murammai Raghu (Scoop, Netflix)
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Reader writes #584: Digging straight into micro-level dissection of why large-scale unnatural disasters occur
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Reader Writes #583: Objects in the Rearview Mirror: 2000s Kollywood
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A Few Notes – Episode 1: Does Age Matter?
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Happy 80th Birthday, Ilaiyaraaja
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Ajitpar Singh’s ‘Fire In the Mountains’ on SonyLIV strips away the beauty of the mountains and looks at the harsh reality.
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Akhil Sathyan’s ‘Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum’ on Prime Video proves templates never matter when storytelling is strong
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Interview: Som Shah (Maharani on SonyLIV, Dahad on Amazon Prime Video)
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Reader Writes #582: The Story of Allen Dulles and His CIA
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Reader Post #581: Virupaksha: The Succubus is in the Details
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From the Web (FTW) #9: Director Martin Scorsese on the Importance of Visual Literacy
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BR live season 2
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Thank you Bits Of Info Tamil.
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From the Web (FTW) #8: Nenendu Vethugudura (Translation)
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Reader Post #580: Scammer – The ramblings of a fundamentally uninteresting man
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Reader Post #579: Daredevil Mustafa (DDM) – An Outsider’s Perspective
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Achut Vignak’s Trishank, co-starring Anna Benn and Arjun Ashokan, has a super premise, but instead of potentially rioting, it’s content to remain a fun sight to see.
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Shashank Sogar’s Daredevil Mustafa has a laid-back charm full of newcomers and makes up for its shortcomings with a ton of can-do mentality
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Interview: Sarathkumar (Pau Tozil and others)
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Interview: Anna Ben / ‘Andadun’ Producer Sarita Patil (Srishank)
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Reader Post #578: Inheritance – The Story of Kendall and Logan
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Saaf Ek Bandaa Kafi Hai, directed by Apoorhu Singh Kalki, is a serious, well-acted courtroom drama that needed more tension.
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Yashowardhan Mishra’s ‘Katar’ on Netflix is a gentle and entertaining detective novel and social commentary on the missing jackfruit.
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Reader Post #577: NTR’s National Legacy
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From the Web (FTW) #7: The Magic of K Vishwanath Songs
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Shamal Sulaiman’s hilarious ‘Jackson’s Bazaar Youth’ makes you think it’s a drama about the underprivileged before pulling out the rug under your feet.
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Lights, cameras and analysis: Ravi Varman (Ponniyin Selvan 1 & 2)
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Vijay Antony’s ‘Pichaikkaran 2’ is a sentimental, speech-centric take on how the rich should help the poor
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“Modern Love Chennai,” directed by Creative Producer Thiagarajan Kumararaja and his team, makes a strong case for what Tamil creators can do in the OTT space
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Interview: Thiagarajan Kumararaja (“Modern Love Chennai, And This Man’s Heart”)
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Interview: Bharatiraja (Modern Love Chennai, Any Kind of Love)
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Interview: Shiva Anans (Ponniyin Selvan 1 & 2)
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Vinayak Chandrasekaran’s ‘Good Night’ has some fun laughs and is easy to watch, but struggles to maintain a single tonality
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Nelson Venkatesan’s Farhana gives Aishwarya Rajesh the perfect chance to shine in the midst of a half-baked thriller
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Jude Anthony Joseph’s ‘2018: Everyone is a Hero’ draws in very broad strokes, but in the end it’s a solid depiction of a tragic era.
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Interview: Vijay Anthony (Pichaikkaran 2)
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Reader Post #576: Book Review: The Last Mughal Empire by William Dalrymple
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Interview with IIT Madras BS Film Institute
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My interview on Mindscape Matters
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Interview: Mr. Shriram and Mr. Shridhar Raghavan
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Anup Singh’s “Song of the Scorpion” (Irrfan Khan, Golshifteh Farahani) is a minimalist, brilliantly twisted and obsessive love story
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A Little Rumination 95 – Naturalism vs. Realism
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Reader Post #575: PS-2 Comes with the Soul Untouched
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Reader Post #574: PS-2 and why it’s riddled with the same problems that plagued the later seasons of GoT
- IIC to screen ‘Thinking of Him’ on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s 162nd birth anniversary
- ‘Lust Stories 2’, on Netflix, has okayish films by R Balki, Amit Ravindernath Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh, and a brilliant one from Konkona Sen Sharma
- Apoorv Singh Karki’s ‘Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai’ is an earnest, well-acted courtroom drama that needed more tension
- Abu Dhabi hosts another successful IIFA Awards Show