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- Temporary ‘Varisu’ publish
- Temporary ‘Thunivu’ publish
- Readers Write In #537: My journey with ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, from watcher to reader to author
- Interview: Rima Das
- From the Web (FTW) #1: Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Haasan in dialog
- About the films – 1969 / 2022
- Readers Write In #536: My favorite Hindi movies of 2022
- Happy 2023, everybody!
- Mega Critics Roundtable 2022, by Nona Prince
- Interview: Hrithik Roshan
- Readers Write In #535: Love immediately…Wait, what love?
- Readers Write In #534: Balls of Steel
- The Galatta Plus Tamil Cinema Round Table 2022
- Readers Write In #533: The Boy Who Cried Film
- Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cirkus’ has a couple of scattered laughs and a variety of actually boring patches
- Interview: Sunny Leone (Oh My Ghost)
- The emotional stakes are low, however as a scare-dispensing machine, Ashwin Saravanan’s ‘Connect’ does a fairly first rate job
- Readers Write In #532: Ending of ‘Better Call Saul’ Explained
- Interview: Ashwin Saravanan (Connect)
- In ‘Avatar 2: The Way of Water’, James Cameron continues to push film expertise whereas remaining content material with probably the most generic writing
- Readers Write In #531: Just a few ideas on ‘Goodbye’
- Interview: ‘Travels’ Ramji Natarajan (Location finder for RRR, Dilwale, Endhiran, and so on.)
- Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘Ariyippu’ (Malayalam) is an excellent “thriller” that strips away all thrills to current a sensible portrait of a migrant couple
- Readers Write In #530: Kantara: A Socio-Ethical Perspective
- My Top 10 record of movies for the Sight & Sound ballot, 2022
- Anvita Dutt’s beautiful ‘Qala’, on Netflix, places us into the mind-set of a disturbed playback singer
- Deepak’s well-researched ‘Witness’, on SonyLIV, is a narrative about guide scavenging that’s extra earnest than emotional
- The Galatta Plus Pan-India Round Table 2022
- Readers Write In #529: Thoughts on GASLIGHT, RANGOON RADHA
- Readers Write In #528: Thoughts on Love Today (Film)
- Alphonse Puthren’s ‘Gold’ (Malayalam) has a variety of massive concepts however they don’t come collectively as a satisfying entire
- Interview: Guru Somasundaram (Winner of ‘Best Actor’, India, on the Asian Academy Creative Awards)
- Vivek’s underwhelming ‘The Teacher’ (Malayalam) may need labored higher as a pulpy B-movie than a “serious film with good intentions”
- Readers Write In #527: Gold – An overlong and indulgent comedy that solely shines in components!
- Interview: Suresh Krishna (‘Baba’ re-release)
- Readers Write In #526: A ‘nauseating’ historical past, a memoir
- Interview: SJ Suryah, Pushkar-Gayathri, Andrew Louis (Vadhandhi)
- Prithvi Konanur’s excellent ‘Hadinelentu (Seventeeners)’ opened the Indian Panorama part at IFFI; it’s a few leaked intercourse tape, and is a scalpel-sharp dissection of caste
- Prasun Chatterjee’s Dostojee is a shifting, lyrical drama a few childhood that struggles to transcend communal tensions
- Jeo Baby’s terrific ‘Sree Dhanya Catering Service’ is a funnier, extra free-flowing tackle ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, with males doing the cooking this time
- Readers Write In #525: Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey- An obscene class narrative masquerading as gender rights story
- Readers Write In #524: A translation of Jeyamohan’s ‘Sivam’
- Anjali Menon’s intermittently efficient ‘Wonder Women’, on SonyLIV, is greatest loved as an experiment in narrative approach
- Senna Hegde’s ‘1744 White Alto’, with Sharaf U Dheen, is a sort of stoner comedy the place some jokes land big-time whereas others really feel pressured
- R Kaiser Anand’s ‘Anel Meley Pani Thuli’, starring Andrea Jeremiah as a rape survivor, on SonyLIV, is a robust story that wanted stronger writing
- Interview: Vetri Maaran, Andrea Jeremiah, Kaiser Anand (Anel Meley Pani Thuli)
- Readers Write In #523: How fiction and non-fiction complemented one another in constructing my politics
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- Interview: Abhishek Bachchan (Breathe: Into the Shadows)
- Vasan Bala’s ‘Monica, O My Darling’, on Netflix, with Rajkummar Rao and a prime forged, is a really satisfying ‘retro’ murder-mystery, propelled by a super-retro rating