By S Srivatsan, freelance critic Isn’t Ajith Kumar the obvious choice to play Panjurli, the character Rishabh Shetty played in Kantara, if ever Boney Kapoor decides to remake and produce it in Tamil? I was thinking about the roar of Kantara. There is one thing Ajith is really good at: roaring, which he thinks rhymes with good […]

Below is a short video showing features of the eLearnEconomics site. Since 2008 eLearneconomics has provided a comprehensive and concise insight into understanding a multitude of economic concepts, ranging from the central ideas of demand, supply and markets, to the… Continue reading →

Spoilers ahead… The film is tonally uniform, which helps to maintain the mood. But by the end, it is further proof that these big-star movies are a kind of IIT entrance exam for directors. In his recent interview with Galatta Plus, H Vinoth said that he doesn’t care as much about the “story” of his […]

Spoilers ahead… In the old days, these drastic shifts in mood and tone would be called bad screenwriting. Today, because of the way we consume unrelated content at a stretch on our phones, that complaint appears to have become invalid. If you look at the cast list in the Wikipedia page for Vamshi Paidipally’s Varisu, […]

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Below are two very good videos by Geoff Riley of Tutor2u. They cover the 2022 HDI figures and an explanation of the 3 main indicators that make up the index. This topic is part of the A2 Economics course and… Continue reading →

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By Sudharsanan Sampath This is a film. Not a narrative film. But maybe a documentary? I don’t think it can be called a documentary. It is something. I’ve been living a very nomadic life, moving from town to town, city to city and country to country. I’ve always liked visiting and living in a big […]

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By Krishnaraj Sambath As a Watcher FDFS (my first ever!) on 30-Sep-2022, 6PM show in Houston, TX. There were 5 of us in total in the theatre, including my wife and 4-yr old son. (Not the ear-deafening paper-showering cinematic FDFS experience I was hoping for) As a Reader Why did I pick up this book? […]

For more, subscribe to GALATTA PLUS: https://tinyurl.com/ysbkyrht The Galatta Plus team travels to Kalardiya — Rima Das’s village in Guwahati — for an interview. And to get a flavour of the locale where all her films have been shot. Copyright ©2023 GALATTA.

Happy New Year to all! I’m taking a little break from the Ealing Comedies Blog Series because, as the year 2022 recently ended, it’s time for me to do a recap of my favourite films watched that year! So, for the occasion, I’ve decided to go with a top 20. I’ve spent long periods not […]

Starting a new series of stuff from the web that I think will generate some interesting comments…

I read this passage — which is a kind of epilogue to Pauline Kael’s review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was written in 1969, and what she says seems to resonate with what we are going through today. For your comments / consideration (additions in square brackets are mine): Just when there […]

By Abhirup Mascharak Badhaai Do. Director: Harshvardhan Kulkarni. Hindi cinema has been tackling LGBT stories for a while now, and most of these films have woven their narratives around certain issues pertinent to the queer community: moral policing (Aligarh), coming out (Dear Dad), living at the intersection of queerness and other marginalized identities (Margarita with […]

It’s been a strange year. The move to Galatta… a minor hernia surgery (and the resultant weight increase, during the post-operative recovery period)… the post-pandemic realisation that life is even shorter than we thought and every diem is something to be carpe-d, plus a whole bunch of other stuff. A lot of things I have […]

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