With so much content around us, do you think the “excitement” — the anticipation — surrounding a new film has gone down? There are many biggies lined up, and some of them make me say “interesting”…. But… But that whole “fuck, I can’t wait for it” feeling seems to be going away! Some of it […]
By Aadesh Ramaswamy The film has probably one of my funniest experiences, at least to on the level of a one-liner. Solene (played by the ever-charming Anne Hathaway) and Hayes, have a “break-up“ and due to him being a young and very famous singer, their photos blow up on social media… This is exactly the […]
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) operates monetary policy in New Zealand through adjusting the official cash rate (OCR). The OCR was introduced in March 1999, and is reviewed 7 – 8 times a…
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The film is an impressionistic series of scenes that showcase the restlessness, the powerlessness, the confusion of an unprivileged man in a changing city. In Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya, the protagonist is an immigrant to Bombay, and he is pulled into the underworld. Sahadev Kelvadi’s Kenda is set in Bangalore and its protagonist – Keshava […]
With the mock exams this term and external exams coming up at the end of the year it is useful to be able to have some knowledge of New Zealand’s trade position especially as it is so important to the…
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By Aadesh Ramaswamy Martin Scorsese said Marvel films are not “cinema” … He may have meant whatever he meant, but it definitely raises the question…. What constitutes cinema? At the minimum level, we expect a skilful usage of image and sound to give an experience, emotional or psychological…. Like Velasquez’s Old Woman Making an Egg, […]
By AJ Sathyanand Mr and Mrs Mahi ,directed by Sharan Sharma , produced by Karan Johar and starring Rajkumar Rao and Jhanvi Kapoor in lead roles is about two Mahis , and their bittersweet relationship with cricket . Mahendra (Rajkumar Rao) is the son of a fiercely ambitious and competitive sports shop owner (Agarwal , […]
By Aadesh Ramaswamy In the 2nd half of Raayan, there is a particular section which involves Dushara committing violence for the first time in a bid to protect Raayan. While I was extremely happy of its existence (due to it being “feministic”) and the audience’s cheers, I was reminded of a particular Sherlock Holmes story […]
Okay, this short — written and directed by Abhinav Athrey — is actually a bit professional. But putting it up under the same series. After multiple Matrimonial rejections, Ananthu, a blind man, seems to have finally found ‘true’ love, as his Google Glass helps him mask his disability and flirt with the girl next door.
The broad arc of the story is very generic: a drama of betrayal and revenge. But what makes the film feel fresh is the emphasis on family and how small traumas can shape our actions. On the surface, Raayan – Dhanush’s second feature as writer-director – could not be more different from his first one, […]
Until interval point, the film works very well – but the big twist is defused soon after. And the second half suffers from pacing issues. But all said, this is a solid debut. Level Cross welcomes us with these words: “Beyond time and space, deep inside our mind, there’s a place in solitude…” As we […]
The number of plot threads may make the film sound like some sort of anthology, but it’s more like a series of slow-burning fuses leading to an existential firecracker that explodes with a big bang. In the Arabian Nights, the king made his queen Scheherazade tell him a new story every day if she wanted […]
