By Abishekspeare Growing up as a teenager interested in cinema in a middle-class conservative household was tricky. In a family were drinking scenes were worse than gory scenes, and kissing scenes were considered to be a threat to the very existence of human dignity, movies were considered a waste of time, a source to corrupt […]

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Chandramukhi 2 is P Vasu’s latest spin-off of Fazil’s Manichitratazhu, and it opens with a bunch of bad things happening to a very rich family. Someone ends up in a wheelchair. Someone dies. That sort of thing. Radhika Sarathkumar plays the matriarch. With her ever-changing wardrobe of silk saris, she seems to be waiting to […]

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If death is one way to slip into another world, this affecting film tells us that you can lose living people equally by seeing them slip away into their own little worlds. SPOILERS AHEAD The latest film to be shot, edited, produced and directed by Rima Das is called Tora’s Husband, and it opens with […]

Siddharth leads an excellent bunch of actors in this superbly staged film whose pluses are so strong that its minuses are easy to overlook. SPOILERS AHEAD There is an early scene in SU Arun Kumar’s Chithha where Sakthi (Nimisha Sajayan) has to use a public toilet. The floor is dirty, and filled with water. A […]

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Monetary policy is the process by which the monetary authority of a country controls the supply of money, often targeting an inflation rate or interest rate to ensure price stability and general trust in the currency. Further goals of a… Continue reading →

It’s not a secret for anyone familiar with The Wonderful World of Cinema that I love British films, especially the classic ones. They have a unique charm, especially with the actors and dialogue delivery that you don’t find in Hollywood films (and I’m not necessarily thinking of the accent). So, that’s why The Rule Britannia Blogathon (formerly The British Invaders […]

By Siva Soorya I watched Oppenheimer when it came out but only now had the time to write some thoughts about it. It is unfortunate that despite the three hour runtime, the movie never really delved into the psyche behind Oppenheimer (something which Lincoln does marvellously well) and we never really feel the weight or emotional guilt […]

Guyana is a country the size of the UK but has a much smaller population – 720,000 compared to 60m in the UK. Located on the north-east corner of the Amazon the country has recently become an oil bonanza with… Continue reading →

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Spoilers ahead… The film is an unflinching attempt to showcase the making of one episode of the show, but the idea, the concept is far better than the execution. Lakshmy Ramakrishnan is a one-woman indie-filmmaker industry, and she has made a number of films – Ammani, House Owner – that range from solid to superb. […]

Spoilers ahead… This adaptation of ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ suffers from a ‘Drishyam’ hangover, and it might have been better off as a moody drama rather than the moody thriller it wants to be. Jaane Jaan is a curious title for a murder mystery, an investigative thriller. The phrase suggests romance, and in Sujoy […]

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By G Waugh The first time I had heard the word Chaos was in Kamal Haasan’s most disappointing film Dasavatharam, “The fluttering of the wings of a butterfly here in India could trigger an earthquake in the remote corners of even the African continent”. That was back in 2008. I recently in 2022 had the […]

An index that measures the value of $NZ in relationship to a group (or “basket”) of other currencies – see image right. The currencies included are from NZ’s major export markets i.e. Australia, USA, Japan, Euro area, UK. – $A,… Continue reading →

By Abinav Kumar ‘Amma’, he said waking her up. ‘It is 5:30 already. Wake up. Make some tea.’ She opened her eyes to see her husband’s face as she had done ever since they were married. She would chant a little prayer for her husband’s long and able life. He would make his bed out […]