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 […]
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 […]
By Srinivasan Sundar Those five were the ones that were easily and quickly visible in my mirror. Most memorable films; Not necessarily the greats of the decade. I peeped again, this time to catch glimpses of my film memories of the nineties. It is like trying to open up a case that’s been filled with […]
Most textbooks cover cost-push and demand-pull inflation but I have yet to come across profit-led inflation. Paul Donovan, Chief Economist at UBS in London, wrote about the inflation in the last couple of years of which profit-led inflation has been…
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By Sindhuja S It’s almost a year since the release of KRK, and now is as good a time as any to reflect on how the movie landed for me. From the promos one had hoped it would be a slightly cringe – given the theme – but a deft, perhaps humorous, and hopefully unique […]
By Neeraj S Iyer ‘Guilt, Pride, Alienation, Lonesomeness, Anger, Opportunities’ have often been the primary motifs that fuel the narrative of Vikramaditya Motwane’s thought-provoking films. Oftentimes, these themes have also seeped into the works where he has played the role of a Co-Writer & Producer. With his Prime Video Web Show ‘Jubilee’, this multi-faceted, genre-bending […]
Spoilers ahead… The advantage of remaking something is that you can fix the flaws, and no one seems interested in that. But one aspect of the writing is that it keeps things moving and relatively painless. Farhad Samji’s Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan is the story of four brothers. Three of them are named […]
Spoilers ahead… The layers are beautifully worked out but there isn’t a single moment of surprise. We are left with an academic exercise rather than an affecting work of art. Aashiq Abu’s Neelavelicham is based on the short story of the same name by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, which was made into a blockbuster film version […]
By Aman Basha The words golden age themselves seem to age very poorly, or is it just me not hearing enough amrit kaal anymore? But the perception of a golden age, while not as polarizing as it could be in politics, can still be hotly contested when it comes to cinema. One reason is simply […]
At the end of last year OpenAI launched ChatGPT – Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It has the ability to impact traditional assessment methods by generating answers to questions which are often indistinguishable from a student response. ChatGPT operates using algorithms that…
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Spoilers ahead… Instead of the spectacle of cinema, we get the ethnographic feel of a National Geographic documentary. The film feels like a time machine that takes us to a strange world. The broad storyline of Yaathisai, set in the 7th century, is as narrow as possible – I mean, as tightly focused as possible. […]
Stats NZ has released its Regional gross domestic product: Year ended March 2022 report, which provides a geographical breakdown of economic activity within New Zealand. New Zealand’s value-added output: Auckland region contributing close to 38% of New Zealand’s annual GDP…
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Former US Treasury Secretary and Harvard Professor Larry Summers stated at the recent IMF Meetings: “Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘what we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a…
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By Kartik Iyer Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai released in 2001. I was three years old. My family went to watch it. They took me along. Watching the film is one of my earliest memories as a human being. I remember my reaction to the film even today. Inside the theatre in 2001, I remember being totally […]
By Srinivasan Sundar Quentin Tarantino is unabashedly critical of the Hollywood of the eighties (‘..f*ing wasteland of a decade..’, Cinema Speculation). Kollywood was no less. Though the decade was so very central to the history of Tamil cinema – meteoric rise of the Superstar, peaking of geniuses like Bharathiraja and Ilayaraja, end days of masters […]
