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Does CEO pay equal their marginal revenue product?
One reason for the increasing inequality in society is the stagnant wages for the lower and middle income groups – in the USA the top 0.1% have as much wealth as the bottom 90%. Labour compensation at the very top…
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Oct 22, 20233 min read


Happy 9th anniversary to The Wonderful World of Cinema! + A Sunshine Blogger Award!
Believe it or not, I received a notification yesterday morning informing me that I created this blog no less than nine years ago! And I thought it had “only” been eight years. Well, time flies. These have been nine prosperous years of blogging with now 492 followers (come on, can we reach 500 soon??), 549 […]

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Oct 22, 20238 min read
Interview: SS Lalit Kumar, producer of LEO
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Oct 21, 20231 min read


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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Trinity Auditorium
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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Trinity Auditorium
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. […]

Trinity Auditorium
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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Trinity Auditorium
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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Trinity Auditorium
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 18, 20234 min read
My interview with Take Okay
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Trinity Auditorium
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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Trinity Auditorium
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 […]

Trinity Auditorium
Oct 16, 20231 min read
My interview with Minnambalam
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Trinity Auditorium
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 […]

Trinity Auditorium
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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Trinity Auditorium
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 […]

Trinity Auditorium
Oct 13, 20231 min read
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