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Zoya Akhtar’s ‘The Archies’ is a near-perfect comic-book movie, handling heavy issues with a feather-light touch
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 […]

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Dec 7, 20231 min read
Interview: Dhanveerrah and Jayathirtha (‘Kaiva’)
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Dec 6, 20231 min read

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Dec 6, 20230 min read
Interview: Manoj Bajpayee / Devashish Makhija (‘Joram’)
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Dec 6, 20231 min read
Readers Write In #647: அன்பெனும் ஆயுதம் ——நீயடா (a poem)
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 […]

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Dec 6, 20231 min read


Devashish Makhija’s ‘Joram’ questions the cost of progress in the guise of a solid, moving cat-and-mouse thriller
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 […]

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Dec 6, 20231 min read


MAMI 2023, IFFK 2023: Prasanth Vijay’s ‘Daayam’ is a beautiful coming-of-age story of loss and learning to cope
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 […]

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Dec 6, 20231 min read
Interview: Zoya Akhtar / Reema Kagti (‘The Archies’)
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Dec 5, 20231 min read


Briefly Reviewed – David Fincher’s ‘The Killer’
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 […]

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Dec 3, 20231 min read


My review of ANIMAL – by Ram Gopal Varma
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 […]

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Dec 2, 20235 min read
Interview: Nani (‘Hi Nanna’)
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Dec 2, 20231 min read
My interview with Touring Talkies (Chai with Chithra)
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Dec 2, 20231 min read


Briefly Reviewed – Ramkumar Balakrishnan’s ‘Parking’
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 […]

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Dec 2, 20231 min read


Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal makes a caveman-psychopath its hero and becomes a (mostly) thrilling ode to our inner, animalistic nature
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 […]

Trinity Auditorium
Dec 1, 20231 min read


EVs and the supply chain of minerals
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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Nov 30, 20233 min read
The Galatta Plus Mega Malayalam Round Table 2023
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Nov 28, 20231 min read


Cobweb Theory and Price Elasticity
I have blogged on this topic before and although not in the NCEA or CIE syllabus’ I find it useful theory to mention when doing supply, demand and elasticity. Agricultural markets are particularly vulnerable to price fluctuations. many agricultural products…
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Nov 28, 20232 min read


Credit Multiplier and its limitations.
Most economics textbooks that explain the credit multiplier assume that banks automatically expand the credit money supply to a multiple of their aggregate reserves. In the example below the reserve ratio is 25% so credit creation multiplier equals 4 (that…
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Nov 27, 20232 min read


Dhruva Natchathiram…
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Nov 26, 20231 min read


Kairam Vaashi’s review of Raj B Shetty’s ‘Swathi Mutthina Male Haniye’ : This simple narrative of a dying man and a living-dead woman could be poetry for some while plain for others
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Nov 23, 20231 min read
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