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- Interview: Vasan Bala, Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte (Monica, O My Darling)
- Pradeep Ranganathan’s ‘Love Today’ has an amazing theme that’s let down by the writing, which settles for straightforward jokes and straightforward sentimentality
- Happy birthday, Kamal Haasan
- Interview: Janhvi Kapoor (Mili)
- Readers Write In #522: Classics on YouTube #6 – Fallen Angel (1945)
- Readers Write In #521: The Elephant within the Room
- Mathukutty Xavier’s ‘Mili’, with Janhvi Kapoor, reveals that even a pure ‘genre film’ will be elevated by means of excellent writing
- Interview: Anjali Menon (Wonder Women)
- Interview: Aishwarya Rajesh (Driver Jamuna)
- Interview: Pradeep Ranganathan (Love Today)
- Maju’s ‘Appan’, with Sunny Wayne and Alencier Ley Lopez, now on SonyLiv, is an fascinating drama that’s higher with characters than plot
- 10 Questions: Anurag Kashyap
- Indra Kumar’s ‘Thank God’, with Ajay Devgn and Sidharth Malhotra, is a uninteresting and shallow dramedy a few man who faces his sins
- Abhishek Sharma’s tedious ‘Ram Setu’, with Akshay Kumar as an atheist archaeologist, is an journey solely in identify
- Readers Write In #520: PS1 review- Too many flaws to cowl up
- Tanglish Talks: Happy Deepavali
- Readers Write In #519: Classics on YouTube #5 – Made for Each Other (1939)
- Liju Krishna’s ‘Padavettu’, with Nivin Pauly and Aditi Balan, is a powerfully cinematic story of an unlikely saviour
- Readers Write In #518: My two cents on ‘serious’ literature
- Vysakh’s ‘Monster’, with Mohanlal and Honey Rose, is a pulpy thriller that entertains till it begins to clarify itself
- Readers Write In #517: The Impossibility of A Uniform Civil Code
- Readers Write In #516: Social work, advocacy and activism
- Anudeep KV’s ‘Prince’, with Sivakarthikeyan and Maria Ryaboshapka, applies the ‘Jathi Ratnalu’ components to a love story and falls flat
- PS Mithran’s ‘Sardar’, with Karthi and Raashi Khanna, is an interesting spy thriller that sticks near the style
- Charukesh Sekar’s ‘Ammu’, on Amazon Prime Video, with Aishwarya Lekshmi and Naveen Chandra, is a partly efficient domestic-abuse drama
- Interview: Bhuvan Bam (Taaza Khabar, BB Ki Vines)
- Readers Write In #515: Book Review : The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
- Readers Write In #514: R.I.P. ‘Anjali’ (a Mani Ratnam movie)
- Readers Write In #513: The Bollywood Crisis and the most important star in Mumbai at this time
- Our mainstream auteurs vs. mainstream cinema’s must-haves
- Readers Write In #512: On the ‘my moments’ with THE Bachchan…(half 3)
- Readers Write In #511: Classics on YouTube #4 – The Card (1952)
- Anubhuti Kashyap’s ‘Doctor G’, with Ayushmann Khurrana and Rakul Preet Singh, is a weak dramedy a few male gynaecologist
- Readers Write In #510: Colonialism and the English language
- Interview: Sivakarthikeyan (Prince)
- Achu Vijayan’s ‘Vichitram’, with Shine Tom Chacko and Kani Kusruti, is a stunning ghost story crammed with lovelier human drama
- Readers Write In #509: AB@80: Some Underrated Moments of the “Magarayudu”-Part II
- Readers Write In #508: On the ‘my moments’ with THE Bachchan…(half 2)
- Random ideas on ‘Ponniyin Selvan – 1’ and its ‘aftermath’
- Readers Write In #507: AB@80: Some Underrated Moments of the “Magarayudu”-Part I
- Readers Write In #506: Ponniyin Selvan – A Masterpiece and a grasp’s peace…
- Readers Write In #505: On the ‘my moments’ with THE Bachchan…(half 1)
- Readers Write In #504: Laal Singh Chaddha, Ponniyin Selvan, and all the pieces in between
- Readers Write In #503: The Impossibility of Indo-Islamic Reform
- Interview: Kalidas Jayaram (Natchathiram Nagargiradhu and lots extra)
- Readers Write In #502: Kantara – My take
- Readers Write In #501: Classics on YouTube #3 – To Be or Not To Be (1942)
- Readers Write In #500: Book Review: White Mughals by William Dalrymple
- Readers Write In #499: Natshathiram Nagargiradhu…and the one factor I might see was a Pen Natshathiram!
- Rishab Shetty’s ‘Kantara’ is a stable masala-myth that, regardless of its points, finds new methods to inform an previous story about ‘The Chosen One’