Considering how besotted we all are with cinema, it may seem a bit absurd to say this, but lately, I’m beginning to believe that Tamil films meant a lot more, say a couple of decades ago. Do you remember that time — when a trip to a cinema theatre was almost an exotic outing that…
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My take on anything cinema
Chennai’s love for DiCaprio
Immediately after Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar, Twitter exploded. At the speed of about 440,000 tweets per minute, according to official reports. That’s just marginally lesser than the number of retweets I get: about one or two per day. Anyway, I’m convinced that a vast number of those tweets came from Indians who, no doubt,…
The hateful five
Films are intimate in a way that few experiences in life are. Is it any surprise then that the fiercest arguments and the most laborious of discussions are often about them? Criticism of one’s favourite films is often looked at as an attack on oneself; how often have we seen people defending films passionately, as…
Life in concert
Real concerts are few and far between, these days. Many of them have turned into mime performances, the singers feebly mouthing along to the album version that blares aloud, the live musicians somehow, with minimal effort, seemingly recreating the most complex of digital sounds, the melodies turned into parodies. I distinctly remember the outrage I…
Once smitten, twice try
Last week, a group of friends dragged me, kicking and screaming, to the theatre to watch Premam. Again. My resistance, of course, didn’t have much to do with the film itself; I had fallen in love with it as quickly as Premam’s protagonist, George, does with Mary. But at a time when films come and…
Sudhir Srinivasan 