Director: Dennis Jeevan Kanukolanu Cast: Sudeep Kishan, Lavanya Tripathi, Murli Sharma In this Telugu remake of the Tamil movie Natpe Thunai (2019), there are more slow-motion shots as it features a bigger star in the lead. While Hiphop Tamizha Aadhi, the protagonist in the Tamil version, is still considered a …
Read More »Anbirkiniyal Review: An Impressive Relationship Drama That Has Sneaked Into A Survival Drama
Director: Gokul Cast: Keerthi Pandian, Arun Pandian, Praveen Raja, Ravindra Vijay Anbirkiniyal (Keerthi Pandian) and Sivan (a widower, played by Arun Pandian) have something of an inverted father-daughter relationship. She is the responsible one who works odd jobs to pay off his debt, while he is the kind of person …
Read More »Richa Chadha And Ali Fazal On Pushing Buttons With Their New Production Company
Actors Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha have announced the launch of their production house Pushing Buttons Studios. The announcement was followed by details of their first film Girls Will Be Girls, a mother-daughter story set in a small Himalayan hill town, written and directed by Shuchi Talati. Shuchi and Richa …
Read More »Nenjam Marappathillai Review: SJ Suryah Is Gloriously OTT In Selvaraghavan’s Equally OTT (In A Good Way) ‘Nenjam Marappathillai’
Director: Selvaraghavan Cast: SJ Suryah, Regina Cassandra, There’s a scene in Nenjam Marappathillai where Selvaraghavan (almost) steps into another Tamil auteur’s territory. There’s a blind man with black glasses, so you know which director I’m talking about. But there’s more. There’s the abundance of Christian imagery. We have a religious woman, …
Read More »Hong Sangsoo’s ‘Introduction’ Is At Once Wispy And Profound, Like Eavesdropping On The Universe
In the opening scene of Hong Sangsoo’s Introduction, a man is praying. He says he will do anything. He will give up half his wealth, give it to an orphanage even, if God gives him one more chance. We never really find out who this man is, what he did, …
Read More »Raya And The Last Dragon Is Gorgeously Animated And Evocatively Voiced
All of the qualities you associate with a dragon are upended when you ask the comedian Awkwafina to voice the part. As Sisu, the eponymous dragon in Raya And The Last Dragon, she’s the first to admit she’s “not, like, the best” one. Gangly, goofy and irreverent, with a rapidfire …
Read More »Coming 2 America On Amazon Prime Review: Comedy Lite, Musical Lite, Monarchy Lite. Everything Is Lite In This Eddie Murphy Sequel
Midway through Coming 2 America, sequel to the 1988 Coming To America, there is a meta-line about the putrid repetition of American cinema— “Superhero shit and remakes and sequels to old movies no one asked for.” That’s the kind of film this is—dispensable, but deeply self-aware of its dispensableness. We …
Read More »Jathi Ratnalu Trailer Talk: This Movie Is Going To Tickle Your Funny Bone
The trailer for the upcoming Telugu comedy drama Jathi Ratnalu starring Naveen Polishetty, Priyadarshi, Rahul Ramakrishna, and Faria Abdullah is out on YouTube now. The film seems to follow the story of three small-time crooks. Obviously, there’s a lot of money and mayhem involved in it. Do the characters played …
Read More »Selvaraghavan On Why ‘Nenjam Marappathillai’ Is Not A Ghost Or A Horror Film
Director Selvaraghavan talks to us about SJ Suryah-starrer Nenjam Marappathillai, his next release after NGK (with Suriya). He says he writes by instinct but still does a lot of research for his films, especially the background score. He talks about how digital filmmaking revolutionized the way he created Nenjam Marappathillai …
Read More »How The Before Trilogy Gave Me A New Definition Of Love
It is by no means a simple feat to create art out of two people talking to each other. But Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy have done it 3 times now. In doing so, they have created a living, breathing entity, aided by actors who were in the …
Read More »50 Films I Love: Annayum Rasoolum
In our country, when a man named Rasool falls in love with a woman named Anna, you know that you are in for a tragedy. Religion is an insurmountable wall. Like Romeo and Juliet, Anna and Rasool are star-crossed lovers, doomed from the day they meet. Actually, it’s not so …
Read More »Kuthiraivaal, directed by Manoj Jahson and Shyam Sunder: A surreal experience about the multiple selves we inhabit, with Kalaiyarasan and Anjali Patil
Director: Manoj Jahson And Shyam Sunder Cast: Kalaiyarasan, Anjali Patil In Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a man wakes up to find that he’s transformed into a giant bug. There are echoes of this classic story in Kuthiraivaal, a Pa Ranjith production directed by Manoj Jahson and Shyam Sunder. Here, too, a man …
Read More »FC Recommends: The Best Stories And Videos On Entertainment On The Internet Right Now
In this series, Team FC scours the best of the internet every week to bring you a list of great reads, watches and more, from the world of film and entertainment. “Two Dosas”, a British Short Film about Dosas and Indian Culture Himesh Patel (from Danny Boyle’s Yesterday) stars in this short film …
Read More »Indoo Ki Jawani On Netflix Review: Between Tinder And Terrorism, The Film Sermonizes, Forgetting The Romance And Comedy In Rom-Com
Writer, Director: Abir SenguptaProducer: Bhushan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Nikkhil Advani, Monisha Advani, Madhu Bhojwani, Niranjan Iyengar, Ryan StephenCast: Kiara Advani, Aditya Seal, Mallika Dua Ghazbiabad’s Indira Gupta (Kiara Advani), pyaar se Indoo, is getting ready for her first one night stand—her parents and sibling are out of …
Read More »Netflix India’s Monika Shergill And Srishti Behl Arya On Balancing Abbas-Mustan With Chaitanya Tamhane
Earlier today, Netflix India announced its massive 2021 slate of close to 40 titles, a diverse mix of original films, new and returning series, reality shows and comedy specials. Their new slate is their largest announcement yet ranging across formats, genres, creators and sensibilities with new projects from everyone from Abhishek …
Read More »Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry Review: Music And Love And Resilience
Director: RJ CutlerCinematography: Jenna RosherEdited by: Greg Finton, Lindsay UtzStreaming on: Apple TV+ ‘I love you.’ These are the words perhaps most often uttered in The World’s a Little Blurry, the new Apple TV+ documentary about Billie Eilish. Eilish is surrounded by love, from her brother and closest collaborator Finneas, …
Read More »Berlinale Talents participant Tathagata Ghosh: ‘Through my films I try to freeze the rapidly changing corners of rural Bengal’
Tathagata Ghosh, director and screenwriter, gained recognition with Miss Man, the story of a gay man in a village. His other shorts include Dhulo and The Meat. These films are a strong mix of the personal and the political, and the technique is extraordinary. So it’s inevitable that this conversation …
Read More »Mani Ratnam’s Navarasa, Delhi Crime Season 2, Abbas Mastan’s Next And More – Netflix India Announces Its 2021 Slate
Over a virtual press conference earlier today, Netflix India has announced its massive 2021 slate. The diverse mix of original films, new and returning series, reality shows and comedy specials are listed below, although release dates are yet to be specified. These titles join the streaming giant’s recent string of …
Read More »Are You A Supernatural Woman In A Bollywood Movie?
Are the full-moon nights making you feel a little bloodthirsty? Are your feet flexible to a degree that isn’t humanly possible? You might be a witch, or someone possessed by one, in a Bollywood movie. Hindi films about supernatural women aren’t new, but currently seem to be in vogue. Just …
Read More »Berlinale 2021: Ted K tells the story of the Unabomber as a demented eco-activist
While watching Tony Stone’s Ted K – as in, Ted Kaczynski, as in, the Unabomber (played by an excellent Sharlto Copley) – I kept thinking of other loners, fictional and otherwise. In a scene where Ted K is packing a suitcase, we see a copy of George Eliot’s Silas Marner. …
Read More »Kaadan Trailer Talk: Rana Daggubati In An Animal Vs Man Conflict Movie
The trailer for the upcoming action drama Kaadan shows Rana Daggubati as a modern-day Tarzan. His character is, of course, not raised by animals, but he seems to grow up in a forest which has several elephants. When he learns that his friends are in danger, he rises to the …
Read More »The Soundtrack Is The True Rockstar Of Rockstar: My Favourite AR Rahman Album
Let’s be honest. Some of the crap that is being churned out nowadays in the name of Hindi film music is despicable. The past decade especially has witnessed a severe deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs. Barring a few talented musicians including Vishal Bhardwaj, Amit Trivedi, Ram Sampath, Shantanu …
Read More »If You’re Into Unreliable Narrators Like The Girl On The Train, We Got You Covered For More Recommendations
Unreliable narrators are great, because we empathize with them even as we know they are going to do us dirty at some point. We, in some odd sense, are unreliable narrators of our own lives, and so to want to watch logical extremes of this makes sense. It probably explains …
Read More »The Making Of Bombay Rose | Gitanjali Rao | Deep Focus With Baradwaj Rangan | Film Companion
On FC Deep Focus, director of Bombay Rose, Gitanjali Rao speaks to Baradwaj Rangan about the making of the animated film that releases on @Netflix India on March 8th. Here, they dissect scenes, the process of animation and music design and putting together the project from start to finish. #BombayRose …
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