Interview: Anubhav Sinha, on his sine-curve reactions to ‘Ra.One’, his 2.0 avatar from ‘Mulk’ to ‘Bheed’, and why he’s disheartened
Goodbye, Harmless!
Interview: SS Karthikeya (Rajamouli’s son, Line Producer of ‘RRR’), on how they did the Oscar marketing campaign
From the Net (FTW) #6: The New York Instances’s AO Scott on quitting movie criticism after 23 years
Readers Write In #564: Ideas on Tár
Readers Write In #563: Letters to my Alter Ego: Half 2
Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Bheed’, primarily based on pandemic-migration, is a strong addition to his sequence of social cinema
Interview: MM Keeravani (RRR, Oscar-winner)
‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 12: Analysing 5 scenes from ‘Dada’, ‘OK Kanmani’, ‘VTK’, ‘Sarpatta Parambara’, ‘Anbe Sivam’
Krishand’s crime-comedy ‘Purusha Pretham’ (on SonyLIV) presents a number of huge laughs, however not almost sufficient to maintain its overlong run time
Interview: Nani (Dasara)
From the Net (FTW) #5: How OP Nayyar was one of many authentic disruptors of Hindi movie music
Readers Write In #562: VAALVI (Termite/s) – Marathi
Interview: Gautham Karthik (Pathu Thala)
Interview: Daniel Caltagirone (Thangalaan)
‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 11: Kamal Haasan’s arc in ‘Thevar Magan’
Interview: Jim Sarbh, Ishwak Singh, Regina Cassandra, Arjun Radhakrishnan (Rocket Boys 2)
Interview: T Suriavelan (Singapore-based Tamil YouTube hit, Naam)
From the Net (FTW) #4: The wives who found they had been homosexual
Interview: Santhosh Narayanan (Malaysia live performance, future movies)
Readers Write In #561: Letters to my Alter Ego
Rajeev Ravi’s ‘Thuramukham’ (Nivin Pauly, Arjun Ashokan) is a robust, unsparing 360-degree view of a staff’ wrestle
‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 10: Oscar speak (on campaigning and ‘Naatu Naatu’ and what it takes to make it)
Readers Write In #560: Misplaced and Discovered
From the Net (FTW) #3: Ananthu, about himself, SPB and MSV
From the Net (FTW) #2: Sivaji Ganesan, interviewed within the Eighties
Interview: Siddharth Anand (Pathaan)
Luv Ranjan’s ‘Tu Jhoothi Foremost Makkaar’, with Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, is overlong and under-plotted