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Kairam Vaashi’s review of Vamsee’s ‘Tiger Nageswara Rao’: Ravi Teja’s pan India attempt is marred by the lack of creative ambition
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Oct 20, 20231 min read
Kairam Vaashi’s review of Anil Ravipudi’s ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’: One of NBK’s finest mass-masala films
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Oct 20, 20231 min read
My interview with Galatta, about LEO
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
Lokesh Kanagaraj’s ‘Leo” is a mixed bag: the ‘mass’ moments work, the dramatic ones don’t
The film stars Vijay, Trisha, and an entire battalion. But barring the hero, nobody gets much to do in this long movie. The most positive thing about Leo is that, like Vikram, it is a 100% Lokesh Kanagaraj film. The melodramatic “family-friendly” daughter-track of Kaithi is gone. The fan-service college portions of Master are gone. […]
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
Kairam Vaashi’s review of MG Srinivas’s ‘Ghost’: Many good ideas lost in translation to the screen
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
Trade – the return of protectionism
The rise of protectionism amongst countries is estimated to reduce global economic output by about 7% or $7.4 trn in today’s prices. Trade barriers have increased by over 30% since 2019 – 2022 = approximately 3,000 barriers introduced, see graph…
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Oct 18, 20232 min read
Pre-release Talk: Lokesh Kanagaraj’s ‘Leo’
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
My interview with CineUlagam
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
Readers Write In #635: This and That…
By V Vijaysree In my Madras childhood, I studied in a girls’ school on Lloyd’s Road – I still shudder if I happen to pass by this building. It looks exactly the same as it did when it sucked the joy out of learning for me, but the street is now called Avvai Shanmugam Salai, […]
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Oct 17, 20234 min read
My interview with Take Okay
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Oct 17, 20231 min read
A2 Economics – Pareto Efficiency
Another revision post for my A2 class with the essay paper this week here in NZ. The idea of Pareto Efficiency is named after the Italian Economist Vilfredo Pareto. For a given set of consumer tastes, resources and technology, an…
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Oct 16, 20232 min read
Interview: Shiva Rajkumar (‘Ghost’), by BR
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Oct 16, 20231 min read
MAMI 2023, IFFK 2023: Anand Ekarshi’s ‘Aattam’ is a superb ’emotional procedural’ about truth and lies and the grey shades in between
The film stars Vinay Forrt, Zarin Shihab, and Kalabhavan Shajohn. It is a thrilling, dialogue-heavy drama that’s reminiscent of Asghar Farhadi’s work. The story begins in an unfinished building. The architect is told that she is slow, but she replies that the family can move in by Christmas. She quickly takes her leave and gets […]
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Oct 16, 20231 min read
My interview with Minnambalam
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Oct 14, 20231 min read
Readers Write In #634: A10 Dancing Daily
By Aman Baasha A tribute to my favorite memepage on Insta of late, as it transforms to A10.Dancing.Weekly Of all the superstars beloved and celebrated by the Indian public in the diverse corners of our country, no one has baffled me more than Mohanlal. I was born long after Rajesh Khanna’s rise and fall, but […]
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Oct 14, 20233 min read
Muthyala Meher Deepak’s ‘Tantiram: Tales of Sivakasi Chapter 1’: A horror film with no spirit, says Kairam Vaashi
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Oct 14, 20231 min read
Tinu Pappachan’s ‘Chaaver’ is a fascinating formal exercise; it takes a murder story and replaces excitement with highly stylised atmosphere
The film features Kunchacko Boban, Arjun Ashokan, Manoj KU. It is proof that style is a very valid form of substance. Tinu Pappachan used to assist Lijo Jose Pellissery, and in his films, you get the same sense of a slightly surreal masculine world gone mad. Chaaver is a routine “crime and punishment” story, but […]
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Oct 13, 20231 min read
Tarun Dudeja’s ‘Dhak Dhak’ is a by-the-numbers female-bonding / empowerment story woven around a biking challenge
The film features Ratna Pathak Shah, Dia Mirza, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Sanjana Sanghi as Manjari. But the routine screenplay does them (or us) no favours. Four women decide to undertake a bike ride to Khardung la, one of the highest motorable roads in the world. Along this road trip, they bicker and they bond […]
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Oct 13, 20231 min read
Interview: Rathna Kumar & Deeraj Vaidy (on writing with/for Lokesh Kanagaraj)
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Oct 12, 20231 min read
Vishnu Dev’s ‘Little Miss Rawther’ is a pleasant, quirky romance but it could have used more narrative heft
The film stars Gouri G Kishan and Shersha Sherief as a couple. But we don’t connect with their characters, and the result is a sweet but forgettable film. The opening scenes of Little Miss Rawther set the tone for the rest of the film. We are going to watch a filmmaker write a script from […]
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Oct 12, 20231 min read
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