La La Land shows how songs can make for deeply satisfying exploratory adventures into the characters’ subconscious. It shows how such musical exaggerations can be beautifully escapist.
Author: Sudhir Srinivasan
An obsessive compulsive quest for order
It’s more about the routine, about the ritual. It’s about knowing that these rituals indicate normalcy, and normalcy is usually safety.
I’m an actor, not a star: Jiiva
“Imagine if Kamal Haasan played Walter White (protagonist of Breaking Bad)?”
Arrival: A thought-provoking, satisfying take on alien invasion
You realise at that moment that this is exactly how an encounter with an alien would likely be. You wouldn’t rush at it with excitement. You wouldn’t cower from it in fear. You’d take tentative, cautious steps of curiosity, all the while unable to reconcile with the reality of it all.
Musings of a No-Maj
One girl, who I instantly recognised to be Professor Sybill Trelawney — thanks to her curly hair, the stars in her eyes, and the huge orb she was slugging around — walked up to me, eyes wide with theatricality, and told me she saw a job change in my near future.
Sudhir Srinivasan 