Thinking Got Loud

Note to readers – I am starting a series titled, “Single Take.”   These sketches will be shorter than my usual blog posts.   I will be alter...

“Charge” is a word that I think of quite often and quite deeply.   No, it is not about that ominous bar at the top of the device that I carr...

Now that Radhakrishnan Parthiban’s Iravin Nizhal (Shadow of the Night) is out on Amazon Prime, I decided to not just revisit the film.   Bu...

Director Visu rarely spoke about films outside of his own works.   I had the fortune of knowing him in the last 2 ½ years of his life.   Dur...

It is quite rare that I let my views on a topic cloud my opinion of a movie.   But it happened recently with Thiruchitrambalam .   I chose t...

It is rather unexpected that a person like me was asked to do a guest post reviewing Ponniyin Selvan  Part-1 (“PSI").   I have watched ...

Sep 22 was a tough day.   It is always painful when a ‘birthday’ gets converted into an ‘birth anniversary.’   But the pain is especially to...