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- Interview: AR Murugadoss (16 August 1947, his next with Sivakarthikeyan, his once-proposed Vijay-Ajith combo film, etc.)
- Bitty Ruminations 92 – The friendship equation
- Readers Write In #566: Viduthalai review
- Interview: Soori (Viduthalai)
- Presenting (drum roll)… the second extra from the right in WEAPON
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 13: Answering listener’s questions about Vetrimaaran
- Srikanth Odela’s ‘Dasara’ is a solid, subdued star vehicle that favours emotions over “mass” moments
- Vetrimaaran’s ‘Viduthalai – Part 1’ lacks the raw power of ‘Visaranai’, but it’s still a worthy, watchable coming-of-age action-drama
- Readers Write In #565: Book Review: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- Ajay Devgn crafts a sturdy (but generic) star vehicle out of Lokesh Kanagaraj’s sturdy (but generic) star vehicle
- Obeli N Krishna’s ‘Pathu Thala’ is a contrived action movie that’s saved solely by Silambarasan
- Interview: Anubhav Sinha, on his sine-curve reactions to ‘Ra.One’, his 2.0 avatar from ‘Mulk’ to ‘Bheed’, and why he is disheartened
- Goodbye, Innocent!
- Interview: SS Karthikeya (Rajamouli’s son, Line Producer of ‘RRR’), on how they did the Oscar campaign
- From the Web (FTW) #6: The New York Times’s AO Scott on quitting film criticism after 23 years
- Readers Write In #564: Thoughts on Tár
- Readers Write In #563: Letters to my Alter Ego: Part 2
- Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Bheed’, based on pandemic-migration, is a solid addition to his series of social cinema
- Interview: MM Keeravani (RRR, Oscar-winner)
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 12: Analysing five scenes from ‘Dada’, ‘OK Kanmani’, ‘VTK’, ‘Sarpatta Parambara’, ‘Anbe Sivam’
- Krishand’s crime-comedy ‘Purusha Pretham’ (on SonyLIV) offers a few big laughs, but not nearly enough to sustain its overlong run time
- Interview: Nani (Dasara)
- From the Web (FTW) #5: How OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music
- Readers Write In #562: VAALVI (Termite/s) – Marathi
- Interview: Gautham Karthik (Pathu Thala)
- Interview: Daniel Caltagirone (Thangalaan)
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 11: Kamal Haasan’s arc in ‘Thevar Magan’
- Interview: Jim Sarbh, Ishwak Singh, Regina Cassandra, Arjun Radhakrishnan (Rocket Boys 2)
- Interview: T Suriavelan (Singapore-based Tamil YouTube hit, Naam)
- From the Web (FTW) #4: The wives who discovered they were gay
- Interview: Santhosh Narayanan (Malaysia concert, future films)
- Readers Write In #561: Letters to my Alter Ego
- Rajeev Ravi’s ‘Thuramukham’ (Nivin Pauly, Arjun Ashokan) is a strong, unsparing 360-degree view of a workers’ struggle
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 10: Oscar talk (on campaigning and ‘Naatu Naatu’ and what it takes to make it)
- Readers Write In #560: Lost and Found
- From the Web (FTW) #3: Ananthu, about himself, SPB and MSV
- From the Web (FTW) #2: Sivaji Ganesan, interviewed in the 1980s
- Interview: Siddharth Anand (Pathaan)
- Luv Ranjan’s ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar’, with Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, is overlong and under-plotted
- Readers Write In #559: BLOG AWARDS, 2022
- Interview: Charle (Kondraal Paavam)
- Interview: Karan Anshuman, Rana Daggubati, Suparn Varma, Sunder Aaron (Rana Naidu)
- ‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 9: Lessons for first-time directors, from Ganesh K Babu (‘Dada’)
- Readers Write In #558: Ultimeta Varisu
- Readers Write In #557: Ntikkakkakkoru Premondarnn – A simple, feel-good film with effective performances!
- Mansore’s ‘19-20-21’ is a solid, docudrama-style deep dive into the injustices faced by tribals
- Interview: Avinash Tiwary
- Rahat Mahajan’s ‘Meghdoot – The Cloud Messenger’ is a beautifully imagined tale of a love that transcends time
- Readers Write In #556: Abishekspeare in love
- Interview: GV Prakash / Venky Atluri (Vaathi)