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‘Nimma Vasthugalige Neeve Javabdaararu’. The public safety reminder of “please take care of your belongings” is often considered redundant until we lose something valuable owing to our negligence. Even if we do end up being a victim of a clever robbery, all we do is curse the crook and move on. Keshav Moorthy’s Nimma Vasthugalige…
RM in ‘Right People Wrong Place’ The music video for RM’s song ‘Lost’, from his album ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’, begins with a poster that says, “Inside Namjoon’s head”. We soon find ourselves transported into a maze, to a chat show called ‘The Lost Show’ starring RM, as he navigates long corridors that lead nowhere,…
A still from ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ What is better than one Jim Carrey? Two Jim Carreys, obviously! And there is also Keanu Reeves channelling his inner Baba Yaga as Shadow, the powerful and vengeance-driven alien hedgehog. Based on the videogame series, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 sees Sonic (Ben Schwartz), the superpowered hedgehog and his…
A still from ‘Shrinking’ Season 2 | Photo Credit: Apple TV Season 1 of Shrinking, which follows the life of therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel), ended with one of his patients, Grace (Heidi Gardner), pushing her toxic, abusive husband, Donny (Tilky Jones) off a cliff. She is in jail awaiting trial. Jimmy feels responsible, as…
A still from the film ‘Identity’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement If someone were to narrate the story of Identity, directed by Akhil Paul and Anas Khan, chances are that halfway through, the person will get lost in a maze of complicated side stories. It need not have been that way, for at its core,…
A still from ‘Kraven the Hunter’ A long, icy road is the first shot of Kraven the Hunter, the sixth film in the infamous Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU). Given how all the other films, except the Venom movies, turned out to be fiascos, the very first shot of Kraven felt like a metaphor for the…
A still from ‘What If…?’ Season 3 My favourite episode in the third season of What If…? is ‘What If… Agatha Went to Hollywood?’ or is it the one in the Wild West, ‘1872’ or the finale of this superlative series, ‘What if…What if?’ It is so sad that this third season is the final…
Social media has spawned a class of so-called influencers who make it a point to visit every art gallery, fair and museum here and abroad, and thereafter very generously share their experience of viewing the latest exhibitions with “friends”. However, there is a catch. The influencers in their glad rags invariably pose in front of…
