Sudhir Srinivasan

The Secret Life of Pets: Enjoyable, even if not memorable

Imagine if jokes wore boxing gloves and jabbed at your face till you relented. That’s The Secret Life of Pets for you. Every scene is an opportunity for a gag, and every plot development an excuse for more gags. There isn’t a single inert moment in the film, which is both good and bad. First,…

The Legend of Tarzan: Some warm moments in a VFX-heavy action-adventure

John Clayton the third, not Tarzan, is a melancholy personality, like a beast in a constricting cage, and so, you can see why the invitation to visit the glorious wilderness of Africa would be torturously enticing for him.

Podcast: 7 things we learned from the latest GoT episode, Winds of Winter

This week’s podcast for The Hindu on S06E10 of Game of Thrones, Winds of Winter, in which I discuss the top seven moments including one of the most beautiful opening sequences to any episode of any TV series. Spoilers ahead. Consider yourself warned.

Twenty years without tears

It has been twenty years since a Rajini film last made us cry

The man who wrote and sang ‘Neruppu Da’

As you can imagine, singing and writing ‘Neruppu Da’ has completely transformed Arunraja’s career. He won’t blame you for not knowing that he’s written and sung for films like Pizza, Jigarthanda, and Theri previously. After all, “a Rajini sir film elevates everybody associated with it.” It all came about when his long-time friend Santosh Narayanan…