Internet bookings were supposed to be easy and fast. But given the events of the last week in Chennai, I can’t but be transported to a seemingly romantic time in the not-so-distant past when advance bookings had little to do with furious, futile clicks of the mouse.
Tag: Rajinikanth
Twenty years without tears
It has been twenty years since a Rajini film last made us cry
Kabali: Not a brooding don, apparently
Sorry, but there’s no getting away from Kabali, this week. Its teaser has raked in astonishing figures—almost 60 lakh views in a little more than a day; on average, about 3,300 people watching it every minute since its release. The teaser has also helped dispel a few general notions about the Ranjith-Rajinikanth collaboration. For…
The man who made Rajinikanth
The censor board wasn’t pleased when they learned they had to certify A Creator with Midas Touch, writer-producer Dhananjayan’s documentary on Panchu Arunachalam. For one, the screening was scheduled on New Year’s eve. Two, it was a documentary, over two hours long. But according to Dhananjayan, when the film ended at 10:30 that night, the…
Rudraiah: The man whose film shook the Tamil industry
“His debut film was a pet project of our gang. That differentiated all of us from being just talkers. We were also doers.”
Sudhir Srinivasan 