Spoilers ahead… Tovino Thomas gets the most fully fleshed-out character, and even a love interest – and later, he gets to do the biggest saving acts. He is both a star and a character actor here. There are two ways to make a movie about a large-scale disaster. One is to reduce the scale, like […]

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By ​Jeeva P aka G Waugh Surveying the so-called First War of Indian Independence that took place at Delhi through the eyes of historian William Dalrymple in his book The Last Mughal, I was led to revise many of my long-held assumptions. The rebellion that took place, also called the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, was […]

Dan Ariely in his book Predictably Irrational, stated that consumers behaviour changes when the word ‘free’ is mentioned. Free is zero price it is a powerful emotional trigger that is very tempting. Fortuna Düsseldorf of the Bundesliga second division have… Continue reading →

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Figures out yesterday show that unemployment in New Zealand remained at 3.4% which makes for a very tight labour market. One wonders if this figure is beyond the maximum sustainable levels with the RBNZ worried about the pressure on private… Continue reading →

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There has been a lot of talk in football circles about the size of the Chelsea squad. There are currently over 30 players in the the first-team squad and they recently had to increase the size of the changing room… Continue reading →

Spoilers ahead… Few actors are as good as Irrfan at portraying fundamental decency. We saw that quality in ‘The Namesake’. We saw that quality in ‘The Lunchbox’. And we see it here. Anup Singh’s previous film was the Partition-era saga Qissa, and the story revolved around a girl whose father decides to raise her as […]

A lithium cartel is being considered by Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil as electric vehicle (EV) market grows and with it the demand for mined lithium to turn into batteries. Bolivia, Chile and Argentina share part of the region which… Continue reading →

In the earlier Bitty Ruminations thread, tamil thanos asked: @BR , a question from your Mani Ratnam podcast. Towards the end, you mention that he is a naturalistic filmmaker and not a realistic filmmaker. Can you elaborate on it? Don’t naturalism and realism go hand in hand? In the case of battle scenes, wouldn’t filming […]

By ​Raghu Narayanan Well, it worked for me…big time! Compared movie to movie, I will say PS-2 is better than PS-1. But then, saying that will be somewhat merciless because the unravelling of the plot and the untying of knots in PS-2 was always going to make it more interesting and more conclusive than PS-1. […]

By Gnanaozhi The movie simply didn’t work for me. It has a severe GoT season 5-8 problem. Seasons 1-4 were sublime, it adapted the books faithfully but the Showrunners added some minor twists of their own (like that scene where Tywin is being served by Arya who is pretending to be a lowly servant). However […]

Just been covering the Laffer Curve with my Yr 13 class and it was very apt that the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) published a report that shows wealthy New Zealanders pay much lower tax rates than other earners. Based on… Continue reading →

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Spoilers ahead… Mani Ratnam amps down the aural drama and amps up the visual drama. Even by this director’s legendary standards, the staging is something else. Mani Ratnam has credited SS Rajamouli several times as the reason he was able to finally make Ponniyin Selvan: the mega-success of the Bahubali films made it possible for […]

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This is a take-off on Madan’s comment in the MR-ARR interview thread, where he talked about my podcast where he says I said something like “this weird strongly mainstream impulse Mani has for one who wants to be trying new things all the time. “ I want to define what I meant by the word […]