By Pranav Jain Pranav Jain is an incoming civil servant and also a columnist. “Gori teri aankhen kahein, raat bhar soyi nahin…chanda dekhe chupke kahin, aur taare jaante hain sabhi…” – Lucky Ali Once upon a time, long, long ago, Indian music existed outside the long shadow of Bollywood. Neither was it tailored for the […]
By Sai Prasath Brand building in 2025 feels likes a bad marriage of years gone by – built on convenience and easy access, with very little meaning left to hold it together. If borrowed identity is a virus, then LinkedIn is ground zero. And I’ll admit, it’s my guilty pleasure. The moment something remotely newsworthy […]
Rahul Akshith Rahul Akshith is an Indian writer from Chennai, with a background in economics and a passion for storytelling that blends emotional depth with real-world issues. A graduate of Madras School of Economics, Rahul has explored themes ranging from loss of innocence to personal resilience to the socio-political dynamics of modern India. His second […]
Written and directed by Viswanatha Gangadharan Director’s Note: “Set in the campus of IIT Madras, this film follows a student from a tech team at CFI. Whether he’s driven by passion or just caught in the flow—even he isn’t sure. What unfolds is a strange night where dream and reality blur.” Viswanatha Gangadharan is a […]
The rise of Artificial Intelligence and automation is bringing rapid, transformative change to society, especially in the labour force. Most people are unprepared for how fast and deeply these shifts will affect jobs and daily life. Some indications: Labour markets…
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The film is a road movie and a social-justice thriller. At a conceptual level, it’s certainly interesting. But the execution is a letdown. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Sudheesh Sankar and his writer V Krishna Moorthy are nothing if not ambitious. Their film Maareesan begins like a quirky Malayalam buddy movie. Fahadh […]
The film is about a husband and wife who love each other but also keep fighting. It’s vaguely watchable, but nothing more. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Pandiraj’s latest film about a large family, Thalaivan Thalavii, stars Vijay Sethupathi and Nithya Menen as a married couple named Agasaveeran and Perarasi. The story […]
The melodramatic story of an army officer who has to make hard choices is not convincingly done. The film is big, broad, and it offers no surprises. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Earlier this year, Boman Irani made his directorial debut with The Mehta Boys, which was about a troubled father-son relationship. […]
By Jeeva P I have always had a fascination with Marxism, its intent and vision of a classless society, devoid of exploitation, hierarchies and social strata. The society Marx had envisioned had no governments, no police, no armies, in other words, no relics of what we call today ‘the modern nation-state’. The utopia had no […]
The film takes a long time to find its feet. But once the real story gets going, there’s a fable-like Amar Chitra Katha feel that works well. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Pawan Kalyan’s new film comes with a long title: Hari Hara Veera Mallu – Part 1: Sword vs Spirit: Battle for […]
By Madan Mohan Dave Hurwitz (Classics Today) has recently acquainted me with the concept of, as he calls it, an obitchuary. Which, despite the provocative name, is actually still a fair and respectful tribute to a recently departed artist, just not one that whitewashes and deifies the departed soul for reason only that they died. […]
By Ponc ‘Tis the season of prequels in the glitzy world of movies. Who am I to break that trend? And when you can’t beat them, you write one. This is the chapter before *When Love Passes By*—a love letter to birthdays, golden math, and the art of adjusting. *** I’ve always loved birthdays. Always. […]
Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda are very good in this young-adult story about a musician and a writer facing relationship issues. The rest of this review may contain spoilers Early in Mohit Suri’s Saiyaara, a beautiful young woman gets some shocking news. She faints. Later, we learn that it wasn’t the news that made her […]
The Dutch Disease (sometimes know as ‘the resource curse’) refers to an economic phenomenon where a country’s economy experiences negative effects due to a sudden increase in revenues from natural resources, such as oil or minerals. The name makes reference…
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By Pranav Jain Pranav Jain is an incoming civil servant and also a columnist. When Metro…In Dino hit the screens a few weeks back, there was a quiet sense of déjà vu. Its spiritual prequel Life in a…Metro had managed to capture something rare: the poetry of urban fatigue. Mumbai acted as a microcosm of […]
