The film is structured as a series of reveals that make you rethink what you think you know. The ideas are fantastic at a conceptual level, but something gets lost in the execution. “Who is Haran Shankar?” This question comes up late in the film Identity, and it truly reflects the meaning of the title. […]
Slowing demand and the threat of tariffs on exports to the US market has seen as over supply of Mexico’s tequila production. Over the last decade demand grew significantly from the US with celebrity brands such as George Clooney’s Casamigos.…
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Jeeva P “Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” This was Thomas Malthus, an economist and a scholar of […]
Srinivasan Sundar சூது கவ்வ மட்டும் அல்ல, சில சமயம் பயணங்கள் மேற்கொள்ளவும் ஒரு குருட்டுத்தனமான முட்டாள்தனம் வேண்டும், முரட்டுத்தனமான புத்திசாலித்தனம் வேண்டும். சுருக்கமா சொல்லனும்னா நம்பிக்கை அவசியம். அண்மையில் அமர்நாத் யாத்திரை சென்றிருந்தேன். (அன்மை என்றால் சென்ற வாரம் என்று எண்ணிவிட வேண்டாம்.. குன்றத்தூர் சென்னைக்கு மிக அருகில் போன்ற அன்மை). அமர்நாத் யாத்திரை கடல் மட்டத்திலிருந்து சுமார் 12-13,000 அடி உயரத்தில் அமைந்துள்ள குகை ஒன்றில் தோன்றும் சுயம்பு பனி லிங்கத்தை தரிசிப்
During Donald Trump’s election campaign he promised on reducing the cost of borrowing i.e. interest rates – see video from the WSJ. However, the US Federal Reserve has the mandate to maintain price stability and sustain maximum employment by adjusting…
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Using a generic “revenge template”, the people in front of and behind the camera orchestrate one hell of a violent show. The film says that violence begets violence, and it says this with great amounts of gore and great style. If there’s one thing Marco has going for it, it’s a purity of purpose. Writer-director […]
The film is totally nuts, in a good way. It’s what you get when a bunch of clever cinephiles get together and say: “Let’s have some fun.” Aashiq Abu’s new film opens in Mangalore, in 1991, where a gun dealer named Daya (Anurag Kashyap) is hosting a birthday party for his son Bichu. The gift […]
By Madhumithaa S With the New Year almost upon us, it’s the most popular time for reflection. I’ve decided to join the bandwagon of roundup of Tamil cinemas. Here’s what 2024 Tamil cinema had to offer to a woman who has always loved and believed in cinema as a powerful medium of not just entertainment, […]
By Aadesh Ramaswamy Something deeply personal has affected Sukumar after Nannako Prematho. I don’t know what it is. But whatever it is has resulted in Sukumar giving one of his best films. Anyone watching Sukumar’s films before Rangasthalam would consider him to be a writer first and filmmaker next. But Rangasthalam shows that Sukumar’s direction […]
The village-based protagonist does not wear a blouse. Is that such a sin? That’s the issue raised by this powerful drama, which premiered at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024, and played at the recent International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). Geetha Kailasam gets the role of a lifetime as the protagonist of Angammal, written […]
This kid-friendly film is not a thrill-filled action-adventure, as the premise might suggest. And that’s a relief in these frantic times. But after a while, the adult in me started getting a bit restless. Barroz is a film for kids – or, for the kid inside us – and Mohanlal, with his bald head and […]
By Jeeva P I had been wanting to write about Climate Change for so long. It is not because I had read a couple of books about them recently. It is because of how pressing the issue has turned out to be and how directly intrusive it has become to our daily lives. How much […]
