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In a pivotal stretch of Idli Kadai, actor-director Dhanush’s protagonist Murugan relentlessly attempts to perfect his father’s time-honoured idli recipe. He follows the same routine as his father, uses the same ingredients, and keeps churning the grinding stone, but the idli just isn’t what a generation of Sankarapuram residents have grown up eating. Murugan fails…
A still from ‘Him’ | Photo Credit: Universal Pictures This is not a Jordan Peele film. The Nope and Get Out director has produced Him, which is directed by Justin Tipping. With that out of the way and also the wildly misleading trailer marketing the film as horror, what we are left with is an…
Noted French filmmaker and screenwriter Jean Renoir once said, a director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. A decade back, I related to this famous quote while watching movies of Mahesh Bhatt and Ram Gopal Varma when their graphs were coming down. This week, Renoir’s…
At a time when Telugu cinema often leans on grand canvases and visual effects to mask weak storylines, it is refreshing to find reminders that storytelling still matters, even in modestly budgeted films. Little Hearts, released recently, captured the innocence of young romance and parental bonding with crackling humour. This week’s release, Beauty, written by…
Akshay Kumar (right) and Arshad Warsi in ‘Jolly LLB 3’. | Photo Credit: Star Studios/YouTube When the invisible claws of censorship begin to throttle creativity, filmmakers either conform or subvert. This week, Subhash Kapoor, who has mastered the art of sugar coating the bitter pill with satire, rewinds to the farmer agitation against land acquisition…
Anime movies spun out of long-running shounen series tend to trip over their own scale, with too much plot, too many characters, and far too little time. But the spectacular trappings of Demon Slayer’s much-awaited adaptation of its Infinity Castle Arc takes the opposite gamble, for time is what it has in abundance. At a…
I remember, throughout school, with every new Shakespeare book that was to be taught to us, the class would collectively groan, for we all assumed torture was upon us. Perhaps even today, such is the case. However, I remember my English teacher from high school, who never allowed us to fall into the pits of…
A still from ‘Baaghi 4’ | Photo Credit: Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment During the pan-Indian wave, one thing that has reached Bollywood shores from the South is the toolkit of the Iron Age. Armed with cleavers, these days our heroes are slashing and slashing hard. It is not always when the stakes or tempers run high….
During the pandemic, a booster dose of the vaccine became a common term. It was intended to boost the immune system’s response to the virus. This week, Vivek Agnihotri injects a booster dose of cinematic virus that he unleashed with The Kashmir Files lest people develop immunity against communal politics. Once again, blending a discriminating version of the past…
Can a horror film be a comfort watch? The Conjuring: Last Rites, the ninth and supposedly final film in the first phase of The Conjuring universeww (Marvel has a lot to answer for), proves that it most certainly can. With all the real-world terrors, bombings and dismemberments, having random demons glower from mirrors or demented…
