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Apr 17, 20212 min read

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Some things turn out the way they were meant to be & best left as is

In the aftermath of 9/11, people got impacted in many ways. The American society reacted in ways that made self-made Muslims question...

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Apr 4, 20212 min read

Love - a lockdown experiment that sizzles but doesn't deliver

The Malayalam industry keeps throwing up surprises from time to time. During the lockdown, director #KhalidRahman worked on a...

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Apr 3, 20213 min read

Middle Class Melodies - Butta Bomma anyone ??

Twenty years ago, I managed the Coca-Cola plant at Mangalagiri, a village that was equidistant from Guntur and Tenali, deep inside...

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Mar 28, 20213 min read

The White Tiger - A deep dive into the complex stratification of India's social divide!

Would you dismiss #DannyBoyle’s Oscar winner #SlumdogMillionaire as a film made for foreign audiences? Does it exploit India’s poverty...

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Mar 27, 20214 min read

Sound of Metal - Riz Ahmed is fantastic in this poignant film about our choices in life!

A movie that is difficult to sit through and yet one that leaves you with a strange sense of serenity afterwards? A movie that is not...

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Mar 21, 20212 min read

Zindagi in Short - Shorts are here to stay and how !

Short films are no more the “calling card” of young filmmakers with potential. The category has evolved in India and you see a flurry of...

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Mar 20, 20212 min read

Pitta Kathalu - Is Telugu cinema changing tracks?

A ctors like #JagapathiBabu intrigue me. At 59 years, he looks supremely fit and definitely ten years younger. He has been acting for 31...

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Mar 14, 20214 min read

Bombay Begums - Novel and Bold Story telling but leaves you a little underwhelmed!

International Women's Day is here and #Netflix has a story on the lives of five strong women cutting across economic and social strata....

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Mar 13, 20213 min read

The Terminal - when life dishes out lemons, make lemonade!

Fact is often stranger than fiction. And a Spielberg movie is often different from the usual. In 2018, the story of a Syrian national who...

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Mar 7, 20213 min read

Eeb Allay Ooo - This is no monkey business!

I was browsing the OTT platforms listlessly one afternoon and the unusual name caught my attention. The trailer seemed even more...

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Mar 6, 20212 min read

Mail - Isn't this where it all began ?

“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do” Ted...

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Feb 28, 20214 min read

Diego Maradona - the hand of god and the legs of a genius!

It was the year 1986. Growing up in a football-crazed Kolkata, I remember that leap towards the sky and the hand nudging the ball into...

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Feb 27, 20215 min read

Master - Vaathi coming !!

While the nation is going bonkers over “Pawri Ho rahi hai”, the citizens of Tamil Nadu are bending their left shoulder down and dancing...

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Feb 21, 20212 min read

Nooreh - Jor ka jhatka dheere se lage !

Remember that #Mirinda line Jor ka Jhatka dheere se lage? Sometimes the maximum impact is brought on, not by the scale or the decibels...

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Feb 20, 20215 min read

The Batman Trilogy - Why Nolan is the Master !

“Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear... until my dream of a world where dignity, honor justice...

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Feb 19, 20214 min read

Drishyam 2 - Njaan ee Malaayalam cinema il oru velassu velasumm - I will rule Malayalam cinema -Lal!

Even as I write this, I am conscious that millions of Malayalis would have stayed up the night to watch the film as soon as it debuted on...

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Feb 14, 20212 min read

Gullak - An ode to the common man in uncommon times!

“The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon” said Norman Angell. Indian Television has...

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Feb 13, 20214 min read

Drishyam - Mohanlal tells you why he is the complete actor!

How do you make the lead character of your story cover up a murder and yet retain his apeal without condoning the transgression? And make...

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Feb 7, 20214 min read

The Wolf of Wall Street - where the character becomes the plot !

As the #GameStop saga unfolds and the Davids take on the Goliaths of Wall Street who were bent on flexing their muscles by shorting the...

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Feb 7, 20212 min read

Megalopolis - disturbing and relevant to our times !

The late 19th century saw Fydor Dostoyesvsky write about the political and moral nihilism setting into the Russian society of the 1860s....

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