The film features Tovino Thomas, Nimisha Sajayan, Indrans. It works best when it leaves behind the overt messaging to concentrate on its moving characters. Will there be war? That is the question the civilians have in Adrishya Jalakangal, directed by Dr. Biju. These civilians converse in Malayalam, but they could be from anywhere and this […]
Following on from a previous blog post on ‘EVs and the supply chain of minerals’ below is a video from the ‘FT Moral Money’ series concerning the demand for lithium. In 2023 demand for lithium was around 930,000 tonnes but…
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The film stars a whole bunch of newcomers you can’t have NOT heard about. The pace slackens towards the end, but other than overlength, there’s little to complain about. The opening shot of The Archies carries us through fairy-tale clouds and deposits us in Riverdale, a fantasy land filled with Anglo-Indians. It’s the 1960s, and […]
By Soorya N அன்பெனும் ஆயுதம் ——நீயடா நான் உன்னை தேடி வந்தபோது, எழுதிய சிறு கடிதம் / காவியம் …. * “வா வா என் தோழனே” “செல்லாதே எனை விட்டு ” “வலிப்பது என் வாய் மட்டும் அல்ல, என் மனமும்தான்”உன்னை கூப்பிட்டு ” “ஆரவாரம் இல்லாமல் அமைதியாய் நான் நின்றபோதும் “யார் என்னை பார்ப்பார்கள் என்று நான் தேடியபோதும் ” “,ஒரு சிலரின் குறி, என் மீது திரும்பியபோதும்” “யார் என் மீது […]
The film stars Manoj Bajpayee, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Smita Tambe Dwivedi. It is about a man who flees his village to the city and back to his village – only to find he is homeless everywhere. A very happy Adivasi man, squatting on the ground, sings a folk song as he watches his […]
The film features Aathira Rajeev, Pradeep Geedha, Ranjini George. The director uses a recipe book as a metaphor for life and the secrets we keep. Prasanth Vijay made his debut with The Summer of Miracles, where the protagonist was a nine-year-old boy who becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming invisible. The protagonist of Prasanth’s […]
SPOILERS AHEAD The first time I saw the film, I liked it — especially the long setup to the first “kill”, and the extraordinary sequence with Tilda Swinton. The second time I saw the film, I loved it from start to finish. The precision of filmmaking — even the glide between two cars at a […]
This review was written by Ram Gopal Varma and circulated on Whatsapp , and has been published with the director’s permission. I went to see ANIMAL after reading and watching quite a few reviews and that’s because after so many decades in film making , I don’t think I can watch a film just as […]
I didn’t mind this movie, but given the raves I have heard, it did not grab me that much. The 45-minute set-up was too long, too broad, too generic. The climax was way overboard. I kept thinking that had the same Ayyappanum Koshiyum-type premise been handled in Malayalam, we’d have gotten a subtler, more internal […]
The film stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Bobby Deol. It is not consistently gripping, but it packs in so much that it’s hard to look away. Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal plays like Subhash Ghai’s version of The Godfather – and I mean this in a mostly good way. (I’ll add that to see […]
The most important component of the the EV in the battery and the global market for batteries is projected nine fold. In 2020 China held over 75% of the global lithium-ion battery cell capacity, and accounts for nearly half of…
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