Recent Posts

• Farewell, Sanjay Gupta (1969-2026)
• Super Chennai Arattai with Baradwaj Rangan | Part 1 | Super Chennai
• Readers Write In #1188: My Baththa (Batha)
• From the Web (FTW) #46: The Netflix Original Movie Experiment Has Failed — and Netflix Will Be All the Better for It
• Readers Write In #1187: Pressure (2026): Courage Under Fire
• Trivikram’s ‘Aadarsha Kutumbam House No. 47’ is a decent entertainer, despite losing steam as it goes along
• Murukaiya’s ‘Pulavar’ is an interesting, experimental drama about crime and punishment
• Interview: Jayasudha, Jayaprakash, Gouri G Kishen, Ramzan Muhammed (‘Love Always’)
• Readers Write In #1186: “A Friend”
• Readers Write In #1185: An open letter to Karthik Subbaraj aka A better answer for my 4 year old
• Readers Write In #1184: Tale of Loving and Hating
• Interview: Jithu Madhavan (‘Scene’, ‘Balan’)
• Ramayana – pre-release talk
• Readers Write In #1183: Amazing Grace – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
• Farewell, Walter Koenig (1936-2026) / Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)
• Readers Write In #1182: Dorothy – Seen It!
• Interview: Vishwak Sen (‘#Cult’, ‘ENE 2’, ‘Legacy’)
• Readers Write In #1181: Udta Teer is effective neither as a comedy nor as a spy thriller for the most part
• @baradwajrangan featured in FeedSpot Top 25 Tamil Movie Instagram Influencers (2026 Edition)
• Book Excerpt: Social Realism and After: Malayalam Cinema from Jeevitha Nouka to Chemmeen
• Interview: Sikandar Kher (Ikkis’, ‘Prahaar’)
• Aditya Haasan’s ‘epic’ is not always successful, but it is an interesting drama about a young man’s coming of age
• Readers Write In #1180: Jailer 3 – Fan fiction
• Interview: Mathimaran Pugazhendhi (‘Selfie’, ‘Mandaadi’)
• Readers Write In #1179: How many wonders are there
• The Amateur’s Art #78 – Gangs of Sarjapur
• Readers Write In #1178: An Exomoon and How to Name It
• Briefly Reviewed – Balaji Mohan’s ‘Nayyi Navelli’
• Readers Write In #1177: Nayyi Navelli: A film that is in equal parts stunning and frustrating, struggling to come together as a satisfying whole
• Interview: Anl Arasu, the first recipient of the National Film Award for Best Stunt Choreography for a Tamil film, ‘Maharaja’
• Readers Write In #1176: Prahaar: A moving drama surrounding the trial that led to Kasab’s sentencing for the 2008 Mumbai blasts
• Rahul Sankrityan’s ‘Ranabaali’ is an ambitious period saga that’s better with technical achievements than emotional impact
• Farewell, ‘Thenisai Thendral’ Deva (1950-2026)
• Readers Write In #1175: Jailer 2: The Anatomy of Anticipation, Mythic Staging, and 50 Years of Rajinism
• Readers Write In #1174: Jailer 2 Review: Rajinikanth & Nelson provide us with a massy blockbuster with seetimaar cameos!
• Readers Write In #1173: Who is Imran Khan?
• Interview: Team ‘Premada Oorali’ (Actor Shree Ram, Director Manoj Kumar, Producer Devendra M)
• Readers Write In #1172: Nelson’Beast: A parodical take on the hostage drama that hits its high points by lowering expectations
• Nelson’s ‘Jailer 2’ is an improvement over the first part, and a redefinition of commercial screenwriting as a form of scrolling
• Readers Write In #1171: Save My relationship with AI
• Manoj Kumar’s ‘Premada Oorali’ is the ‘Vaazha 2’ or ‘Hanuman Ansh’ of Kannada cinema, a mini-budget film that’s become a mega-blockbuster
• Interview: Thejo Bharathwaj (Music video director – ‘Radhimaa’, ‘Pavazha Malli’)
• Readers Write In #1170: “Enough cinema for today.”
• Readers Write In #1169: Pradhama Drishtya Kuttakkar’ review: A tightly crafted police procedural that keeps you guessing until the last scene!!
• From the Web (FTW) #45: Rs 35 on a Rs 100 movie ticket: How producers calculate ‘net box office’ figures
• Readers Write In #1168: Ashley, Girish and BKU!
• Book Excerpt: Half Moon – Stories inspired by people with disabilities
• From Arattai with Baradwaj Rangan
• Readers Write In #1167: Classic British Cinema: Odd Man Out (1947)
• Interview: Rahul Sankrityan (‘Ranabaali’)