What it was like to watch a horror film alone in the theatre, earlier this week
Category: Columns
My take on anything cinema
The joy of taking sides
Why there’s something unsettling–and somewhat unexciting even–about the good vs good trope when in superhero fiction
Why Tamil cinema fans need Game of Thrones
After an extraordinarily long year of agonising wait, Game of Thrones has finally returned, and as a source of great relief for those whose staple diet is Tamil cinema, or in other words, a Tamil horror film a week (this week, we have Kalam). Here is why this American series has come to mean so much…
The beauty of imperfection
For the first 10 minutes of the Malayalam film Kali, I’ll admit to wondering if Sai Pallavi needed to wear more makeup. I wasn’t convinced she needed to look so real . No effort, it seems, had been expended in making her look like heroines often do: her hair wasn’t straightened, her acne wasn’t hidden,…
I hated, hated, hated the movie
Negative reviews are your Facebook likes, they are your potato chips, they are your retweets, they are your two-minute noodles
Sudhir Srinivasan 