By Jeeva P “I know these guys are anti-social. They need to be shot down. If Tamil Nadu continues this trend, I am sure we will end up like a huge graveyard.” I was not shocked when Rajnikanth uttered these words with unadulterated fury at a press conference in Tuticorin in 2018. Rajnikanth was always […]
At first, ‘Pallotty’ may look like a simple nostalgia exercise. But slowly, the film becomes deeper. It doesn’t milk situations for emotion and sentimentality. Jithin Raj had the story idea for Pallotty 90’s Kids and he has directed it beautifully from writer Deepak Vasan’s screenplay. Once again, the separation of writing and directing duties pays […]
Kartik Aaryan, Vidya Balan, and Madhuri Dixit deliver the goods. But the film needed much better writing. There’s the potential for a solid silly-horror movie in the opening stretch of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, directed… sorry, assembled together by Anees Bazmee. Rooh Baba, the fake exorcist played by Kartik Aaryan, lands up in the outhouse of […]
Jayam Ravi plays a ‘Rules Ramanujam’, always bringing up legal points and trying to do the right thing. After a point, this mega-serial level of superficial drama becomes awfully hard to take. The best news about Brother is the semi-comeback of Harris Jayaraj. Over the opening credits, we get a lovely tune that goes “En […]
This handsomely mounted film keeps surprising us. And it’s a big help that this world – this world of finance – is new and has seldom been explored on screen before. Look at the way Dulquer Salmaan’s name is spelt in Lucky Baskhar. It is not “Bhaskar”. It’s written to rhyme with “lucky bastard”. And […]
For a while, the star appearances and action scenes keep things afloat. But after a point, the parallels between this story and the ‘Ramayana’ become too much. The film begins to take itself too seriously and stops being fun. There have been many adaptations of the Ramayana in Hindi cinema. One category of films deals […]
There is always something interesting: a bit of casting, or the centre framing, or the over-the-top set design… but on screen, a lot of it falls flat. Kavin seems to be one of the few actors who is interested in cinema as an art form. I am sure he wants to become a big hero […]
Flaws and all, this is an important step for Tamil cinema. It has “high moments”. But these high moments are never allowed to go into “mass” territory. Our films usually tilt towards either the personal life of the protagonist, or the professional life. If we get the story of a professional achiever, the personal life […]
With the CIE A2 Economics multiple choice paper coming up, a popular question concerns the point on the Total Cost curve when MC, AVC, and ATC are at their lowest point. In the graph note the corresponding points on the…
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By abishekspeare Mid-life musings after the writer spotted the first strand of gray hair on his head… I think I am dying. Honestly, there were signs. Every time I listen to a new song these days, I can’t help but look up at the sky, take a deep breath and think back about the times […]
A well produced video (see end of post) from the FT on the oil industry in Nigeria and asking if it is the classical example of a resource curse. There is a brief outline on the content below. There have…
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By V Vijaysree Polish-born Marie Curie (1867-1934), a two-time Nobel Prize winner, is the only person to ever receive the award for two different fields of science. Her life was proof that a woman could contribute to modern science through original ideas and not just through dull, relentless work. (Read her latest biography to find […]
By karzzexped Introduction: A Departure from Traditional Horror There’s something about the traditional horror genre that has never piqued my interest. The over-reliance on jump scares, ghosts with laughable prosthetics, and blaring sound effects usually meant that I simply got jolted out of my seat, rather than genuinely terrified. There have been exceptions, such as The […]
