By Venky Ramachandran When I sift through the fondest memories of my father, I recall the day he accompanied me for a night show to Alaipayuthey. I remember driving that night in a TVS Astra with him, quickly grabbing a,..well.. I still can’t believe it, black-ticket outside the Devi Paradise theater before we rushed to […]

The film is a rom-com about the culture clash between a Punjabi man and a Malayali woman. It might have been better off trying to tell its own story instead of constantly paying homage to older movies. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Sidharth Malhotra is Param, and he’s trying to make an […]

The film uses mental illness as a blueprint for its screenplay, but two-and-a-half hours of free-association and absurdism is a lot to handle. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. In Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela, Althaf Salim proved that you could tell a cancer story with comedy. In Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira, the writer-director gets […]

This is not your usual “superhero saves the world” story. Instead, amidst the action set pieces, we dive into what it means to be a superhero. And that makes ‘Lokah’ special. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. “All legends have an element of truth”, says the text at the opening of Lokah Chapter […]

The story is about a man who gets a heart transplant and visits the family of the donor. Almost everything clicks in this movie, with overlength being the only major issue. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. In Sathyan Anthikad’s Hridayapoorvam, Mohanlal plays Sandeep Balakrishnan, a single man in middle-age. He just has […]

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By Ashwin Kumar The other day, I was on the phone with a friend. We both used to buy DVDs and watch movies together back in the early 2000s. As we reminisced about the films we were discovering then, he remarked: “I don’t know if we’ve really aged, or if the standards have fallen.” That […]

By Samyogita Hardikar “… Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.” I still remember the first time I read those lines. It was exactly at that moment that I realised that poetry can transport you to anywhere you want. You could be sweltering in a hot Nagpur summer, and […]

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By Rocky I recently came across the post by BR on songs representing the Navrasa . it had me thinking which songs would I pick . the list started becoming so large that I had to narrow it down to just Bachchan songs to begin with . I would love to do a similar list […]

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John Mauldin’s book “End Game: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How it Changes Everything” and his weekly publication ‘Thoughts from the Frontline’ address the topic of debt and in particular when debt-fuelled asset price explosions seem to be… Continue reading →

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By Vinu Karthick I watched the Coolie premiere in Berlin at midnight, in a full house. I was burdened by expectations. I caught most of the movie through all that mental noise. This meant more analysis and less enjoyment. Somehow, the expectations limited my capacity to receive the movie openly as it wanted to be. […]

By Vijaysree V In the 1963 Tamil film Paar Magale Paar Cho Ramaswamy made his debut on the silver screen as “Mechanical” Madasamy. The character’s backstory: as a teen, he stole money and ran away to Madras, where he sampled freedom, McRennett buns, and spiced Irani chai. He also earned a mechanic’s certificate in record time and […]

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Srinath Lalgudi wrote a counter to my review of COOLIE here: https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/readers-write-in-842-are-we-drinking-sand-in-tamil-cinema/ In the piece and comments that followed, I replied to one particular point. Srinath asked: “Did it being a superstar movie make LK choose not to write a proper emotional arc between Deva and his estranged daughter?“ This was my take: This is […]

The re-release of “Sholay” shows us, again, that this isn’t just a great action movie, but a great movie, period. Ramesh Sippy offers a whirlwind tour through his career as Baradwaj Rangan listens. https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/those-days-we-could-afford-to-launch-a-film-without-a-script/ Review: Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag Revisiting Euripides’ Greek tragedy Medea through the lens of Lars von Trier, Pasolini and Sholay https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/rev

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By Sai Prasath On why some films never leave you, even long after the credits roll I love Prem Kumar as a director, but more so as a person. I heard his interview before Meiyazhagan with Baddy on YouTube, and the clarity he had, the kind of person he came across as, his beliefs, it was rare. […]