



Readers Write In #424: Transcript of Interview with Matt Stoller on the Supply Chain Crisis, Great Resignation and Monopoly.Interview: Ravi Varman (who enters his third decade in the industry, picks ten favourite scenes).Readers Write In #425: ‘VEER’ Sooryavanshi.Readers Write In #426: Eternals: A reflection on God, powers and greater good.Music Notes #1: The unending pleasures of MSV-era melody lines.Interview: Madhavan (conducted for the India Film Project).Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval’s ‘Kanakam Kaamini Kalaham’ (Nivin Pauly, Grace Antony) is a bit inconsistent, but there are lots of laughs and a lot of ambitious writing.Karthik Swaminathan’s ‘Mugizh’ (Vijay Sethupathi, Regina Cassandra) is an impressively written and made drama about a family facing a loss.Music Notes #2: Exploring the ‘Raja brought Tamils back from Hindi music’ urban myth.Mano Karthikeyan’s ‘Jango’ (Satheesh Kumar, Mirnalini Ravi) is a ‘time loop’ thriller that just about makes it to ‘watchable’.Nishanth Kalidindi’s ‘Kadaseela Biriyani’ (Vasanth Selvam, Hakkim Shah) is an impressive debut that subverts the ‘revenge’ template in interesting ways.Raj B Shetty’s ‘Garuda Gamana Vrishabha Vahana’ (Raj B Shetty, Rishab Shetty) is a superbly written and staged cop-criminal drama.Have You Heard the Sound of Your Own Voice?.Bibin Paul Samuel’s ‘Aaha’ (Indrajith Sukumaran) is a straightforward sports drama with little effort to tweak the genre’s clichés.Interview: Anil Ravipudi (about hard-core commercial cinema).Readers Write In #428: The Puzzling Case of Kabir Singh: A Sociologist’s Take: Theoretical Vs Empirical.Interview: Raj B Shetty (A spoilery deep dive into ‘Garuda Gamana Vrishabha Vahana’).After a slightly shaky start, Venkat Prabhu’s ‘Maanaadu’ (STR, SJ Suryah, Kalyani Priyadarshan) is a terrific time-loop thriller.Vasanth’s ‘Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum’ (Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli) is a deeply moving dissection of three women across three time periods.Interview: GV Prakash Kumar (Bachelor, Jail, etc.).Interview: Venkat Prabhu (A spoilery deep dive into the writing of ‘Maanaadu’).Readers Write In #429: One prisoner, no dilemma: notes after watching Kaithi (2019).R Kiran’s well-made ‘Kayamai Kadakka’ is a not-bad psychological thriller that could have used more variation in tone.Readers Write In #430: Battle of the Sexes – A note about the misnomer, Uyire.Sathish Selvakumar’s well-crafted ‘Bachelor’ (GV Prakash Kumar, Divyabharathi) has a solid premise about a live-in relationship, but the screenplay is all over the place.Interview: Vasanth Sai (About his heroine characters, from Radhika in ‘Keladi Kanmani’ to the women of ‘Sivaranjiniyum…’).Vasanthabalan’s underwhelming ‘Jail’ (GV Prakash Kumar) can’t make up its mind whether it’s a social drama or a commercial entertainer.
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‘Blue Sattai’ Maran makes a surprisingly watchable message movie with ‘Anti Indian’, which has humour and finesse.Arjunan Ekalaivan’s ‘Oomai Sennaai’ is an impressive debut that plays with form and narrative structure.Interview: PS Vinothraj (on ‘Pebbles’ being India’s Oscar entry).Interview: Mohanlal (on destiny, ‘Marakkar’ etc.).Srinath Rajendran’s ‘Kurup’ (Dulquer Salmaan, Sobhita Dhulipala) is stylish but has little depth.Priyadarshan’s ‘Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham’ (Mohanlal, Manju Warrier) is a historical that needed far better writing.The whole cast manages to blend with the movie but directionless screenplay doesn’t improve the movie’s dull status. Vishnu and Soori pair up good, but Catherine is out of place.

With very thin storyline and mediocre presentation the film fails to impress. Just like his previous film, this too depends on just comic scenes, and leaves the content empty. How this transforms his life is the rest of the story. Thambi Durai who wants to marry Kanmani tries to pick fight with the local gang. But Kanmani’s father who doesn’t approve of Thambi durai’s nature embarrasses both him and his family. When he falls in love with Kanmani( Catherine Theresa) and approaches her parents get their approval for marriage. Thambi Durai who is very cautious and fearful in nature often gets into trouble but finds the easy way out. Thambi durai ( Vishnu) and Anna Durai ( Soori) are best friends who get together after they were separated in their school days.
