Baradwaj Rangan
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National Award-winning film critic. Author (Conversations with Mani Ratnam, Dispatches from the Wall Corner). Editor-in-Chief, Galatta Plus.
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The kind of mail you want to wake up to!
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Wrote a comment on the blog explaining my
#Vikram
review headline, i.e. why I think it is a "history-making" film.
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And it's been 18 years as a film critic.
Thanks to my editors, all my readers who have stuck through at least two blog changes, at least three job changes, comment wars, and just about everything else.
Cheers.
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No one:
BR: About the
#Liger
fiasco, it all boils down to the script. Dear actors, stop listening to one-lines and short narrations, which are always going to sound exciting.
Please learn to READ screenplays. That's the only way to see how that "one line" has been fleshed out.
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Today on
@galattaplusoffl
Rathnakumar
@MrRathna
and Deeraj Vaidy
@DeerajVaidy
on writing with / for Lokesh Kanagaraj, with examples from MASTER, VIKRAM, and a bit from LEO
PS: This looks like a class photograph :-D
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Karthik Subbaraj’s
#JigarthandaDoubleX
is a beautiful love letter to cinema and to Nature
The film stars
#RaghavaLawrence
,
#SJSuryah
,
#NimishaSajayan
. Karthik has rarely been so deeply emotional, and this is his most political work to date.
Text review
@galattaplusoffl
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And it's 20 years as a film critic, folks! Or as a friend told me, "Imagine all the useful things you could have done with your life if you'd not had to watch all those bad movies." (gulp!)
Heh, yes, perspective and all -- but I would not have it any other way. Thank you, all!
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Mandatory
#Bigil
tweet:
The most interesting thing about this (very well-cut) trailer is that they have combined the mass/hero narrative template with the sports-movie template -- to the extent that the Indhuja character registers more than the heroine.
Looks promising.
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A director sent me this. Felt amazing, to say the least❤️🙏🏼
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Just got this in an email...
Most Popular Indian Stars 2022 (as per IMDb weekly ranking chart
1. Dhanush
2. Alia Bhatt
3. Aishwarya Rai
4. Ram Charan Teja
5. Samantha Ruth Prabhu
6. Hrithik Roshan
7. Kiara Advani
8. NT Rama Rao J
9. Allu Arjun
10. Yash
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Great news for Tamil cinema and
@PsVinothraj
, director of
#Koozhangal
(
#Pebbles
, India’s Oscar entry for 2021).
His second feature
#Kottukkaali
(
#TheAdamantGirl
) will be the first Tamil film to have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum Section).
Earlier,…
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Many are calling
#VTK
"out of GVM's zone" Superficially yes. But this breaks “Tamil gangster film” rules just like VTV broke “romance film” rules. There, STR was manipulated by Trisha’s whim. Here, manipulation is by destiny. I love that he's a 'passive participant' in both films
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I hate slim people who keep posting pictures of themselves with loaded dessert plates.
DO YOU ACTUALLY EAT IT?
The nation wants to know.
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"Vijay’s popularity in Kerala began even before he became a mass hero in the 2000s. Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999) ran for 100 days in Kochi’s Padma Theatre, at a time only Kamal/Rajni films could do this"
Before
#Bigil
, revisiting
@Vishal1Menon
's piece
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I know today is
#Leo
day -- but just learnt that PS Vinoth Raj's
@PsVinothraj
PEBBLES (KOOZHANGAL) is premiering on
@SonyLIV
on October 27th.
Thank you
@VigneshShivN
/
#Nayanthara
for backing this super-brilliant film and bringing it out to the public :-)
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Hindi may not be the best idea in TN. For starters, here, "kundi" DOES NOT mean "latch." Just saying.
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Saw the
#2Point0
teaser on a really small screen. Felt a bit meh. But just saw it in 3D on the big screen and have to say this. It's the *cleanest* 3D image (in terms of clarity, colour, brightness) I have seen. Quite blown away, given how muddy and bleary 3D films usually look.
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If you are looking for detailing in
#NerKondaPaarvai
, the biggest one is the title (taken from Bharathi) - and the name of the protagonist also being taken from Bharathi.
Bharath Subramaniam is the reverse of Subramaniya Bharathi.
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So lovely to see MM Keeravani get that Golden Globe for
#RRR
.
I love so much of his work in Mahesh Bhatt's films, especially ZAKHM.
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Dear non-Indian journalists
Not every Indian film is "Bollywood". That's just the industry that makes Hindi-language cinema.
There are many other languages and "woods", if you'd like to explore (and there's a lot of amazing stuff out there, too, I assure you).
Sincerely, etc.
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Mani Ratnam and his fantastic team beautifully capture the essence of Kalki’s characters in
#PonniyinSelvan
Part 1’, which infuses a period story with a sense of lived-in reality
GALATTA PLUS
@galattadotcom
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There’s one part of us waiting to see “A Lokesh Kanagaraj Film”, with his Tarantino-esque approach to cinema. There’s another part of us waiting for “A Vijay Entertainer”.
#Master
is a not-bad balance: a classy 'mass' movie.
@fcompanionsouth
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Thank you, Plip Plip channel, for this roast of/with me and
@pradeeponelife
. 👍🏼🙏🏼🙂
It feels like we've arrived. Or something.
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Hmmm.... Looks I am the only one who really enjoyed the voiceovers.... 🤷🏽♂️
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Mani Ratnam
Vetri Maaran
Sudha Kongara
Mari Selvaraj
Vinoth Raj
Madonne Ashwin
The
@galattaplusoffl
Mega Tamil Round Table 2023
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Pa Ranjith and his cast/crew end up giving the director's finest film yet
#SarpattaParambarai
is just phenomenal filmmaking and I hated that I could not see it on a big screen.
Bravo! An especially big round of applause for John Vijay & the Dancing Rose.
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"Build the biggest library in India."
"Send 100 kids to NASA’S workshop."
"Dance with Madhuri Dixit."
"Own a part of the moon."
These were just some dreams
#SushantSinghRajput
listed a year or so ago. How quickly dreams turn to dust! So, so sad!
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"Vinoth’s biggest accomplishment is the air of restraint. When I saw the trailer, with Ajith's action scene, I thought he’d amplify the volume and “mass”-ify PINK. But he mostly honours the source material."
My
#NerKondaPaarvai
review
@FilmCompanion
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Why do people get offended by the word "masala"? It is our true homegrown genre/style, derived from myths.
Like every type/genre of cinema, there are good and bad masala movies. But when done well, very little can come close to the exhilaration that masala cinema can give.
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Cannot believe people who didn't mind films like Iruttu Araiyil Murattu Kuthu are now fretting about the "social impact" of
#90ml
. So guys making vagina jokes is okay, but when girls do it, it's not? 🤔🙄
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If you see a bunch of people lining up for the new Avengers movie, would you call them... Thanos Serndha Koottam? 🤔
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And it's been 17 years as a film critic.
Thanks to my editors, all my readers who have stuck through at least two blog changes, at least three job changes, comment wars, and just about everything else.
Cheers.
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"Ajith gives one of his best performances. He is subdued, dignified—like the courtroom scenes. (Instead of creating an atmosphere of fireworks, Yuvan Shankar Raja’s minimal score underlines the pathos.)"
My
#NerKondaPaarvai
review
@FilmCompanion
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The title font/design is tops!!!
A symbol that signifies our History and Bravery, I am extremely delighted and proud to present the Title look of
#VaadiVaasal
@Suriya_offl
@VetriMaaran
@gvprakash
#VaadiVaasalTitleLook
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"it’s fascinating to think about the implications of
#Ajith
doing a Sivaji /Kamal kind of star vehicle, playing a character rather than being a massy star."
My
@FilmCompanion
piece on why
#NerKondaPaarvai
may be the most important movie of the year
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This is so awesome for
#Soori
.
Two films he is in are premiering at two important festivals -- Ram's YEZHU KADAL YEZHU MALAI at Rotterdam, and PS Vinothraj's KOTTUKKAALI at Berlin.
What a career turnaround with
#Viduthalai
!
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Kamal Haasan sharing his plans on how he'll make
#ponniyanselvan
with Mani Ratnam, PC Sreeram & Ilaiyaraaja in Kalki, Oct 1989.
Thanks to Balaji Ganesan and Vaseegaran for unearthing this and sending it to me.
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Thoughts on
#SaamySquareTrailerFromToday
1. Why is it so difficult for an actor of Vikram's talents and presence to get decent scripts?
2. Is this a spoof of 'mass' movies (
#TamilPadam3
?), or are they being serious?
3. Does Hari's editor use an Avid or an aruvaamanai?
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Average time taken to consume a cup of coffee: 5 minutes.
Average time taken to consume a cup of coffee while looking at Twitter: 45 minutes.
Just saying! :-P
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You'll hear a lot of things about
@VijaySethuOffl
in
#SuperDeluxe
, but that still doesn't prepare you for the ten-ton impact of two extraordinary scenes (1) where the character reveals herself (2) where she confesses her sins. This is a character and a performance for the ages.
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Mani Ratnam’s
#PonniyinSelvan2
is more dramatic, sadder and more serious in tone, and a meaty conclusion to the two-part epic.
#PonniyinSelvan2review
Several scenes are so good – like the one where Vandhiyathevan meets Kundavai again – that you wish for separare spin-off films…
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Today on
@galattaplusoffl
#neeyaNaana
@Gobinath_C
Gobinath
A career that's 25 years and counting....
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With Netflix
@netflix
CEO Ted Sarandos, who was in Hyderabad yesterday. He spoke with a group of media journalists about Netflix’s plans for original content in the four south Indian languages: both films and series. Interesting times ahead, I guess!
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H Vinoth and Ajith come together for a remake that honours the spirit of the original.
My
#NerKondaPaarvai
review
@fcompanionsouth
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Aman Basha writes in my blog about why he loved
#GangLeader
"Vikram K Kumar takes all the familiar items of a mass movie (revenge, romance, family emotion, brilliant hero, bad guy) and creates something that feels original despite its borrowed title"
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1. He was good at something.
2. He REALISED he was good at it.
3. He went ahead and made a career of it.
4. He got tons of respect, love and -- this is also important -- money.
5. He lived to be 95, enjoying "legend" status in his lifetime.
Talk about a life well-lived.
#StanLee
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Small correction. That would be "history of HINDI cinema".
But yes. Totally agree with the general sentiment.
T 3958 - An institution has gone .. whenever the history of Indian Cinema will be written , it shall always be 'before Dilip Kumar, and after Dilip Kumar' ..
My duas for peace of his soul and the strength to the family to bear this loss .. 🤲🤲🤲
Deeply saddened .. 🙏
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If you don't like or understand a film, just let it be and move on. There's no need to question the taste and judgement and motives of those who DID like the film.
- Confucius
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Why is it so difficult to say "Tamil Nad-u" instead of "Tamil Naad"? It's just a vowel at the end, Delhi TV people. It's not "zha"!!!
#KalaignarKarunanidhi
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Presenting the Best Actor award to Dhanush (for ASURAN) at
#ZeeCineAwardsTamil2020
with fellow jury members and Kalaipuli Dhanu...
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#SandeepReddyVanga
’s
#Animal
(
#RanbirKapoor
𓃵,
#RashmikaMandanna
) makes a caveman-psychopath its hero and becomes a (mostly) thrilling ode to our animalistic nature
The film is not consistently gripping, but it packs in so much that it’s hard to look away.
#AnimalMovieReview
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I don't get it when people say a film is okay "if you go in without much expectations". What does this even mean?
Why would anyone choose to spend two-plus hours WITHOUT expecting something worthwhile in return for that precious time?
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And it's 21 years in this job, folks!
Thank you all for the bouquets, brickbats -- everything.
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"In Avvai Shanmugi, Nasser comes looking for a job in a Brahmin house. When he says his name is Basha, Kamal ad-libs: “His name is (um) Palavakkam (um) Swaminathan. Basha for short.” It’s so absurd, it’s genius"
A small
#CrazyMohan
tribute
@FilmCompanion
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Today on
@galattaplusoffl
An elephant incident, a Ramana Maharishi quote, talk about destiny, Santhosh Narayanan, screenwriting, Rajinikanth, and yes,
#JigarthandaDoubleX
@karthiksubbaraj
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NTR Jr is defined by water. He is an innocent man from the Gond tribe. The feelings in his face are as clear as water but when required, he can turn into a tsunami. Ram Charan is defined by fire. He smoulders inside....
#RRR
#SSRajamouli
@galattadotcom
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Comment on my blog about
#Sarkar
names 😁
Sundar Pichai + Sanjay Ramasamy = Sundar Ramasamy, satisfies not only ARM but Jeyamohan (cowriter) too, as SundaraRamaswamy was his mentor. If you shorten that, you get, voila! SuRa, which satisfies the hero (not sure of audience though)
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#Pathaan
is both a patriotic movie and a form of movie patriotism. It keeps the flag of desi storytelling flying high... Look at the tune Jim whistles, as he walks to Pathaan to kill him. It's "Ae mere watan ke logon"
Text:
Video:
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So I've completed 16 years as a film critic. It's my longest-lasting gig through many career changes, so something must be right :-) Thanks, everyone, for reading and watching.
Here's something I wrote last year...
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#DearComrade
really worked for me. There are some things I wish were done better, but the leads are superb and the writing is consistently interesting. On some level, this is a love story -- and yet, it isn't quite.
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Why Vijay is the Last Superstar | Video Essay
"weaponised intertextuality" - top phrase,
@movingimages_yt
via
@YouTube
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My jaw kept dropping at Jeethu Joseph's inventions... Some viewers may miss the stomach-churning tension of Part 1, but that’s not (wholly) the point here because the experience is more… existential.
#Drishyam2
review
@FilmCompanion
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"100k subscribers"
The best news to wake up to on a Saturday. Thank you all (even if you did not embrace Viewer's Voice as much as we'd have liked you to 😛)
Seriously, thanks, nandri.
(Ending this tweet here to go wipe off my aanandha kanneer)
@fcompanionsouth
@FilmCompanion
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63 years of solid, committed work. A total inspiration to anyone in any field - not just cinema.
The Legacy that Lasts Forever,
63 Years of Unmatched Brilliance.
@ikamalhaasan
#Ulaganayagan
#KamalHaasan
#63Yearsofkamalism
@Pulse_ThumbRule
Thanks
@menongautham
,for contributing your magical voice to this iconic video.
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#HVinoth
denies he is an artist & says "information" >> than "story"
If there's an "H Vinoth 'genre' ", it's Scorsese's CASINO - where the operations of the casino > the "story" with De Niro etc
We try to dive into this filmmaker's mind
@galattaplusoffl
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I'd pay good money to see Pa Ranjith make a full-on film about an older couple. The abrasive/affectionate bond between Dhina's parents (Attakathi), Kaali's parents in (Madras), Kabali-Kumudhavalli, Kaala-Selvi -- these tracks are better than the romantic tracks of many films.
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If ONE scene or arc or motivation or characterisation is unclear, we can extrapolate and say "Okay, maybe this is what it was." But if the WHOLE film requires you to extrapolate, then WE end up "writing" the movie, not the director.
That said, the
#NGK
theories are fascinating
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#Vikram
is not just a fitting big-screen comeback for Kamal Haasan. Thanks to Lokesh and team, he finally has on his resumé the Vikram he wanted to make 36 years ago.
Galatta Plus
@galattadotcom
Text:
Video:
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My new Spotify show premiered today. It’s a weekly podcast. Here’s the first episode.
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The
#LokeshKanagaraj
interview on Galatta Plus
@galattadotcom
#VikramMovie
#KamalHaasan
#FahadhFaasil
#vijaysethupathi
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About the
#NationalAwards2023
for
#AlluArjun
... not every 'good' performance has to be subtle/internalised... star-acting/externalised acting is a legit performance style -- and that is exactly what
#pushpa
needed. And it is time we honoured this style of acting, too.
@instagram
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"In Bombay, the attraction was mutual, so we saw both of them in the scene they meet. Here, Amar is in focus, Meghna is a fuzzy silhouette. The composition makes sense: he is open, she’s hiding...."
#20YearsOfDilSe
#20YearsOf_
दिल_से
@FilmCompanion
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