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Assorted musings on Mahaan, a very interesting film that unfortunately doesn’t work as well as one wishes it had. This piece is likely to contain some spoilers, so don’t read it unless you’ve watched the film, or don’t plan to, or don’t care if someone puts out spoilers. Karthik Subbaraj seems to have made a…
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Two viewings and a lot of thinking about Super Deluxe later, all I know for sure are two things: a. Thyagarajan Kumararaja has made a great film, and b. He’s definitely messing with us.
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Let me talk about this ad that’s been popping up every so often while I’m on YouTube, or the Sun Nxt app. Now, I like chocolate as much as the next person, okay? Hershey’s Kisses, too. But a few things bother me about this ad. First, why is this food item feeling so happy about…
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I was witness to one of the stranger variants of Tu jaanta nahin main kaun hoon recently. I was traveling in an auto from Nandidurga Road to my place. My auto driver was a rather portly, elderly gentleman, the kind who could moonlight as Santa Claus in the mall if business was tough. The traffic…
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On the choices made in telling stories about characters with baggage, in Vada Chennai and Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
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Caution: Spoilers ahead. Read this only if you’ve watched the film. Gully Boy is a rousing tale, but it’s easy to look at the broad outlines of the plot and dismiss it as Dharavi’s 8 Mile or some such thing. That would be doing the film a huge disservice. A genre exercise must not automatically…
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Taapsee Pannu occupies the center of Manmarziyan like this was the role she was born to play. And why wouldn’t she? The role’s a peach, and Pannu mines a vein of ferocity that makes her character in Baby and Naam Shabana look mild in comparison. It has been argued that the level of agency she…
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Petta functions wonderfully as a supercut of Rajni’s filmography, set to old தமிழ் film music. The Mullum Malarum references abound, obviously – with a name like Kaali, that’s almost a given. One of them comes right at the end and is an absolute beauty. But there are so many others that much of the pleasure…
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Middle East… Wise Man 2: You had one job. One. Job. Wise Man 3: Sorry Wise Man 2: How difficult could it have been? I remember specifically asking you to get fleece pyjamas. I distinctly remember the feeling of my lips moving when I said that to you. Fleece pyjamas. How…
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