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- Interview: Suresh Krishna (‘Baba’ re-release)
- Readers Write In #526: A ‘nauseating’ history, a memoir
- Interview: SJ Suryah, Pushkar-Gayathri, Andrew Louis (Vadhandhi)
- Prithvi Konanur’s superb ‘Hadinelentu (Seventeeners)’ opened the Indian Panorama section at IFFI; it’s about a leaked sex tape, and is a scalpel-sharp dissection of caste
- Prasun Chatterjee’s Dostojee is a moving, lyrical drama about a childhood that struggles to transcend communal tensions
- Jeo Baby’s terrific ‘Sree Dhanya Catering Service’ is a funnier, more free-flowing take on ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, with men doing the cooking this time
- Readers Write In #525: Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey- An obscene class narrative masquerading as gender rights story
- Readers Write In #524: A translation of Jeyamohan’s ‘Sivam’
- Anjali Menon’s intermittently effective ‘Wonder Women’, on SonyLIV, is best enjoyed as an experiment in narrative technique
- Senna Hegde’s ‘1744 White Alto’, with Sharaf U Dheen, is a kind of stoner comedy where some jokes land big-time while others feel forced
- R Kaiser Anand’s ‘Anel Meley Pani Thuli’, starring Andrea Jeremiah as a rape survivor, on SonyLIV, is a strong story that needed stronger writing
- Interview: Vetri Maaran, Andrea Jeremiah, Kaiser Anand (Anel Meley Pani Thuli)
- Readers Write In #523: How fiction and non-fiction complemented each other in building my politics
- More than enough
- Interview: Abhishek Bachchan (Breathe: Into the Shadows)
- Vasan Bala’s ‘Monica, O My Darling’, on Netflix, with Rajkummar Rao and a top cast, is a very enjoyable ‘retro’ murder-mystery, propelled by a super-retro score
- Abhinav Sunder Nayak’s ‘Mukundan Unni Associates’, with a superbly cast Vineeth Sreenivasan, is a delicious, deadpan, dark comedy
- Interview: Udhayanidhi Stalin (Kalaga Thalaivan)
- 10 Questions: Bosco Martis (choreographer, director of ‘Rocket Gang’)
- Interview: Vasan Bala, Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte (Monica, O My Darling)
- Pradeep Ranganathan’s ‘Love Today’ has a great theme that is let down by the writing, which settles for easy jokes and easy sentimentality
- Happy birthday, Kamal Haasan
- Interview: Janhvi Kapoor (Mili)
- Readers Write In #522: Classics on YouTube #6 – Fallen Angel (1945)
- Readers Write In #521: The Elephant in the Room
- Mathukutty Xavier’s ‘Mili’, with Janhvi Kapoor, shows that even a pure ‘genre film’ can be elevated through superb writing
- Interview: Anjali Menon (Wonder Women)
- Interview: Aishwarya Rajesh (Driver Jamuna)
- Interview: Pradeep Ranganathan (Love Today)
- Maju’s ‘Appan’, with Sunny Wayne and Alencier Ley Lopez, now on SonyLiv, is an interesting drama that is better with characters than plot
- 10 Questions: Anurag Kashyap
- Indra Kumar’s ‘Thank God’, with Ajay Devgn and Sidharth Malhotra, is a dull and shallow dramedy about a man who faces his sins
- Abhishek Sharma’s tedious ‘Ram Setu’, with Akshay Kumar as an atheist archaeologist, is an adventure only in name
- Readers Write In #520: PS1 review- Too many flaws to cover up
- Tanglish Talks: Happy Deepavali
- Readers Write In #519: Classics on YouTube #5 – Made for Each Other (1939)
- Liju Krishna’s ‘Padavettu’, with Nivin Pauly and Aditi Balan, is a powerfully cinematic story of an unlikely saviour
- Readers Write In #518: My two cents on ‘serious’ literature
- Vysakh’s ‘Monster’, with Mohanlal and Honey Rose, is a pulpy thriller that entertains until it starts to explain itself
- Readers Write In #517: The Impossibility of A Uniform Civil Code
- Readers Write In #516: Social work, advocacy and activism
- Anudeep KV’s ‘Prince’, with Sivakarthikeyan and Maria Ryaboshapka, applies the ‘Jathi Ratnalu’ formula to a love story and falls flat
- PS Mithran’s ‘Sardar’, with Karthi and Raashi Khanna, is an engaging spy thriller that sticks close to the genre
- Charukesh Sekar’s ‘Ammu’, on Amazon Prime Video, with Aishwarya Lekshmi and Naveen Chandra, is a partly effective domestic-abuse drama
- Interview: Bhuvan Bam (Taaza Khabar, BB Ki Vines)
- Readers Write In #515: Book Review : The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
- Readers Write In #514: R.I.P. ‘Anjali’ (a Mani Ratnam film)
- Readers Write In #513: The Bollywood Crisis and the biggest star in Mumbai today
- Our mainstream auteurs vs. mainstream cinema’s must-haves
- Readers Write In #512: On the ‘my moments’ with THE Bachchan…(part 3)
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