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I profiled filmmaker Don Palathara for
@frontline_india
. His latest film FAMILY is out in theatres on Feb 23rd.
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The incredible Krejcikova speech yesterday that made Martina (and everyone tbh) cry. Sport!
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This IS erasure. This IS misappropriating success. In the interest of making more enemies, a thread:
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How gratifying. One year ago in Cannes Payal Kapadia won an award for A Night of Knowing Nothing. The film a scathing if quiet indictment of the BJP govt. Today paragon of hate speech Anurag Thakur represents India at the festival.
"India is at the cusp of greatness. This is just the beginning. There will come a day when India won't have to be at Cannes, but Cannes will be in India":
@deepikapadukone
at the inauguration of India Pavilion at
#CannesFilmFestival
(ANI)
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More Thiruchitrambalams. More Sapta Sagaradaache Ellos. Please.
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Because in Abhiyum Naanum, when asked how much Hindi he knows, Prakash Raj says yaaravdhu pesinanga na avanga Hindi la pesaranga nu theriyum.
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Terrible precedent. What a fucking farce. The film has been removed from Netflix.
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Still laughing at this exchange. Goes to show how much we've taken the man for granted.
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Fascinating narrative structure and imagery make Sardar Udham a rare triumph in the morally bankrupt Hindi film landscape. Vignette driven cinema at its best.
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Pushpa ✅ So much fun. Can totally see why it did so well at the BO. More of this over the top Fahadh!
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That Animal twitter account quote tweet of
@Su4ita
should infuriate any self respecting critic. If anything, it exposes the dishonesty and immaturity of the makers and their approach to art. Not to mention the nefarious attitude towards a whole section of the audience.
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The Tamil meme is a product of evolution. It is closely linked to the pop culture and politics of Tamil Nadu, essentially the story of its cinema. The whats, hows and whys of Tamil Meme Nation. For
@FiftyTwoDotIn
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Sex noises interrupt Frances Tiafoe's match in Sarasota. This triumphs Djokovic smelling weed on court in Montreal
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Shah Rukh Khan reinforcing his real life identity in an ordinary, crowd pleasing film twenty two years after he did the same in his career's most ambitious film. Almost like he dictated the dialogs to the team. Well played.
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My Varisu vs Thunivu take: wish one of them had flopped terribly or chosen a different release date so that Lijo's new film could have found some screens in Chennai.
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It's different with film music. Actors and filmmakers live and die within the screen. Our memories of them confined to that space. With singers and musicians, it's between our ears. They come at us day and night, into all sorts of spaces -
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Federer makes it really tough to be cynical about sports in general and him in particular
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Mani Ratnam condenses, fixes and nails the adaptation. The kineticism of the film is just kickass. Review,
#PonniyinSelvan1
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Props to Allu Arjun. Only other actor who could have pulled this off is VJS.
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As a filmmaker if you are not going to do this for the greatest Tamil film of the last twenty odd years then what filmmaker are you..
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In
@TheSignalDotCo
's intersection I write about SS Rajamouli's RRR blitzkrieg in the US following
#encoRRRe
, how it happened, and the nuts and bolts behind its marketing, exhibition and distribution.
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FWIW: Here is my profile on Arivu from early 2020 - pay attention to one quote by Tenma, it is key to the way things have come to pass:
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So a part of the problem also lies with Dhee and SaNa, who should have stood up for their extremely talented colleague and fellow Tamil musician. Especially so with things SaNa talks about and, to his credit, has practiced in his career. This is a misstep.
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Re-plugging this because I see
#KanganaRanaut
is trending. Be extremely wary of lauding her for anything
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A profile of independent musician
#Arivu
and the larger movement of The Casteless Collective. With quotes from Arivu, Tenma and Udhaya of Neelam Cultural Centre.
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The deaths of artists in the last one year have been particularly painful. Not just because of the current state of the world but more like a future has been stolen from us. Someone like Vivek was just reinventing himself for the second time and now he's no more.
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Kavitha's:
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Most of my followers don't need this but here goes: as
@VOGUEIndia
October issue is South Special, put together a 11 film guide to contemporary Tamil cinema
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This is not a stray case or a why-can't-anyone-simply-google problem. It is a systemic issue with the way some publications work and how they need to do better. Text can be edited and sent through later but whole issues, covers and layouts are planned months in advance.
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I wrote about Rajinikanth
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Have these two said a single thing about Carnatic Me Too accused? But irrespective of that stopped attending their concerts long time ago for exactly the views expressed here. Good riddance. Thank you.
#thread
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We have communicated our decision to withdraw from participating in the Music Academy’s conference 2024 & from presenting our concert on 25 Dec.
We made this decision as the conference would be presided over by TM Krishna.
#madrasmusicacademy
#respectcarnaticmusic
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Karan Johar made his most ambitious project with the most tortured star of this generation. Then he makes his greatest pastiche with the most bohemian star of this generation. Pulls them off back to back. Quite a feat.
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Everybody is talking about Fahadh Faasil so I wrote about
#Dhanush
. It just happens to be his birthday.
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In the cover story by Anurag Tagat, Arivu is a footnote who gets one quote. Click on Arivu and we get only 6 stories, none that features him solo, 3 out of 6 are listicles. Please tell me I am wrong or that it is a badly designed website. I'll be happy to eat my words.
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😂 Ministers whispering *I thought you said he's from Israel*
Big scenes here at the closing ceremony of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) as jury head Nadav Lapid publicly criticises THE KASHMIR FILES, calling it propaganda and saying it should not have been selected - this in front of several Indian ministers.
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Brace yourselves. 7-8 months from now I have a feeling RRR will be doing a Crouching Tiger.
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It's sad and unfortunate but I guess it took an attack on Lady Superstar for the larger industry to notice and react. Hope the Vignesh Shivns of the world are more vocal about all violence against other victims in the future.
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Well, if a fifty second clip can invite this analysis..
Fahad Faasil's take on how he wants audiences to interact with films is quirky and refreshing. He has a point because I think there's case to be made that film criticism/appreciation has become excessively self-indulgent. People discuss films threadbare in 2 hour podcasts. They…
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A lot of us profiled Arivu (
@kavithamurali
on Wire and me on Firstpost to name two) long before Enjoy Enjaami. Before Firstpost, I had sent my piece to a publication focusing on South Asian culture. I am still waiting for a reply.
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Everything in life has a Kamal Haasan reference chapter 85 verse 18
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An inebriated Saket Ram at the time of his Hindu right wing radicalization was a reference to Hitler's beer hall speeches.
In
@TheFederal_in
, I write about watching
#HeyRam
on the big screen in 2019 (eve of _that_ verdict) and its increasing relevance
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So this is not a matter of missing out details or a fact checking hackjob. Actual careful design goes into these works. In my limited but eyeopening experience, magazines still operate in old school (extremely charitable phrasing) ways when it comes to covers.
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The Chennai metro scene - top notch staging and choreography. Add it to the standout whistle worthy masala moments from Tamil cinema this year - bus sequence in Karnan, Master pre-interval, Dancing Rose in Sarpatta.
Valimai has a pretty high bar to clear.
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Anurag is absolutely spot on about (among other things) the west's reception of RRR in the Rangan interview. The apologetic to embarrassed reaction from the Indian critic community is bordering on bizarre at the moment. It's ok to acknowledge the appeal as well as the problems.
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Expanding career/audience etc is all fine but as a Tamil cinema fan can't help but think what a waste of time it is for talented filmmakers like Sudha and Pushkar-Gayatri to be remaking the same film in Hindi instead of new Tamil ones.
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There is disproportionate focus on "star-value" that has several definitions and what is a face that can go on a cover. Every sort of -ism and erasure figures in it (fair skin, Hindi/Bolly association - Divine & Naezy on cover the month Gully Boy released).
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Every fucking one of you in 2014 and 2019.
Those who voted for Modi are responsible for these crimes, which were completely predictable.
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Yes, nothing surprising about this. Over the years, we've normalized people like blue sattai, valai pechu etc for various reasons - they can be "funny" or know the "pulse of the audience". But their misogynistic streaks have always existed that nobody calls out. Thread.
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Spoke to the man of the moment, Thiagarajan Kumararaja about Super Deluxe, the original title he wanted, his favorites, saami aadra audience in theatres and why he'll always make movies for the big screen
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Can't write. But so much done, done well in the most unassuming fashion. And yet, feels like a what-could-have-been.
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Love Hostel is very good. A refined Shanker Raman after Gurgaon but more importantly, the intertextuality is South cinema level. Rarely seen in Hindi. And used well (even beyond the aptly referenced SRK films - Red Chillies is the producer).
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Zero? What Zero? One of the greatest Indian films was made thirty years ago and it is just as fresh today. Might just watch it again this weekend. Also
@LewdCabal
idea.
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#Gargi
is wonderful, a film essentially about class war. Sai Pallavi is a treasure. So is Kaali Venkat.
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Say what you want but the personal lives of ATMs have vastly improved since demonetization (HDFC Besant Nagar clearly winning)
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I wrote about HOMEMADE (on Netflix) that reveals as much about the filmmakers as it does about the pandemic/lockdown. And because it's me, there is disproportionate focus on Kristen Stewart, one of the best actresses of her generation
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Was at IIT-M just now. Small but expressive bunch mincing no words, showing solidarity (a policeman was recording speeches on phone). Bigger protest by CPI and other parties at Chepauk at 4 pm. And another planned in Chennai on 19th.
After IITB, students from IITM and IITK are organising protests today. Really heartening to see such cross campus solidarity.
As a Delhiites, I dearly hope folks at IITD do something
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On a lighter note, I have a theory on how this would have gone down. But I'll save it for my memoir (which will likely be a blog, who knows how much work I've lost with this (!) but I have the privilege to punt on that). Fin.
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If Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (it's a 2023 release, don't call it a 2022 film) is not the best Indian film of the year in all the year end lists, I'll ... well who am I to revolt. It will just be thoroughly disheartening.
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Precious little pleasures of this show. Like the blocking here.
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Riske's brilliant takedown of the umpire for his glorious error. I wish I was as articulate, as righteously saucy during my most livid.
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The lines from Dimple Kapadia to SRK in _that_ scene is the whole country to SRK and SRK to himself as of today. It's been a long time since Hindi cinema went self reflexive so hard.
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The Federer loss did not affect me as much as it has some people but I am just awed that Brian Phillips wrote "The long autumn of Roger Federer" in two thousand and fucking eleven and we are finally in winter in 2021.
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Take a look at Rolling Stone covers over the last two years or so and it will..umm.. paint you a picture.
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As if film criticism wasn't unhealthy enough + caught in a minefield in this country. PRs are confused with entertainment journalists and critics, streaming channels give "instructions" on how to review, now the mildest review is termed personal dig. Are artists this fragile?
@AnyaShankar
A movie review,a character review and that portrayal review is a REVIEW and u can trash it or love it,totally in the capacity of the reviewer n respected. But when u get to saying that the particular actor only changes clothes n does the same its a PERSONAL DIG.Agree to disagree
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Apparently it takes the video aesthetics (in production value terms) of Enjoy Enjaami to even take note of these artists by powers that be.
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You guys are digging old tweets and joking but I am extremely nervous about TN 2021.
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@Grammatizator
@Ka_Neeli
David Mitchell referring to it as televised traffic is my favourite.
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Dear god man I am so tired of "roundtables". Hope they go away in a couple of years. Whatever happened to just listing your favorites of the year and be done with it.
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I admit, the artist's interest, their PR tact also matters. And then there is the politics among stars and artists to get these coveted covers. Which is fine. It's like a tiny Oscar - it doesn't mean you are really the best but it can do wonders to your career.
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SPB was a legend on the day I was born. Thirty five years, I grew up in front of him. Or so it feels like and that's why it hits harder than ever. Go well, knowing that you'll only be celebrated.
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I wrote a little thing on - bear with me - Leni Riefenstahl, Kangana Ranaut and their fascinating fascism
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2017 Tamil Favorites (in no particular order):
8 Thottakal
Maanagaram
Aruvi
Oru Kidayin Karunai Manu
Thupparivaalan
Meyaadha Maan
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
Good but overrated: Vikram Vedha, Aramm, Kurangu Bommai
Only Aruvi and 8 Thottakal screamed for a repeat viewing.
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