Watch Out For The Spin
800 gets so lost in celebrating its grand subject that it forgets something pretty elementary: Cricket is a team sport!, notes Sreehari Nair. In 800,...
View ArticleOur Biopics Are Bad, But There's Hope
I do have a dream biopic. It has as its subject Renu Saluja, the cosmically gifted editor, with a special focus on the Vidhu Vinod Chopra-Saluja-Sudhi...
View ArticleThe Chronicler Of Cities On The Boil
'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen,' notes Sreehari ...
View ArticleI Don't Get this Indian Cricket Team
They represent a new tribe whose grace and skill-sets lie well beyond my comprehension, notes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Mohammed Shami celebrates with te...
View ArticleKolkata 2001: The Odyssey, viewed from the sidelines
20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history.Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of...
View Article1001 Nunakal Review: When Confessions Go Wrong
Though the lies hardly go beyond extramarital affairs and conception problems, they are laid out by arresting storytellers who raise the stakes while ...
View ArticleYou Know What's Sadder Than National Film Awards?
We are back to being a country that talks about box office numbers as the measure of what an audience's real feelings about a movie are, laments Sreeh...
View ArticleHow our liberals have been working for Modi
'The Indian Right can afford to be rigid; but as liberals, our position has to be one of constant evolution, or else death awaits us,' argues Sreehari...
View ArticleA spoilsport in a time of genocide remembrance
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.''There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, thos...
View ArticleDemystifying The Indian Superstar
'As I watched Mammootty 'try out' Mathew Devassy, I could hear from my theatre seat the ready-made appreciation of the liberal press, their applause f...
View ArticleRequiem For The Moaner
To steer clear of sanctimonious newspaper stories all your life, and then be saddled with movies like Kadak Singh -- now there's a rotten bit of luck ...
View ArticleFast Forward To Isha Talwar
It's not uncommon for performers to become bigger than the stories they are placed in and Sreehari Nair would happily pay to watch Isha Talwar and Par...
View ArticleA Double Take
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday release...
View Article7 Cliches Of Movie Criticism & Reporting
This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clichés mentioned here, you might just arrive ...
View ArticleWhy Merry Christmas Left Me Feeling Shortchanged
If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skie...
View ArticleBlood On The Dance Floor
Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds...
View Article10 Truths That May Hurt
Since nothing irritates Lijo Jose Pellissery more than a throwaway critical judgment, Sreehari Nair carefully presents his opinions about Malaikottai ...
View ArticleIs He India's Finest Director Of Romcoms?
Girish AD doesn't make romantic comedies so much as he elevates the genre, observes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Mamitha Baiju and Naslen in Premalu. I cons...
View ArticleMovie Love or Masochism?
You will appreciate the Mammootty of this movie better if you do not take the servile reviews to heart, for this is a grand, broad, almost proudly com...
View ArticleWhy Aattam Is A Masterpiece
What follows is essentially a long scene set in a single location, and you watch in amazement as the scene grows into one of Indian cinema's funniest ...
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