Category: Columns

My take on anything cinema

Bye, bye, lady in yellow

In a recent chat with me, the director expressed frustration at being repeatedly asked about it. Imagine being asked about your love for something, when it’s all you’ve done to try and lobby against that very thing.

Horror experience

Yes, yes, a theatre is the best place to experience a film in, but they forgot to add the crucial bit, ‘unless it’s a horror film, and you’re watching it in India’.

On the re-release of Vetri Vizha

“We’ve got Vetri Vizha this week, and it’s not entirely devoid of its merits. For one, it’s among the very few times that we beat America to a film adaptation of its own literature.”

Spoilers before

Film-going is generally not an exercise in surprise anymore.