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In the south: Local flavour, global reach

There has been a radical change in all areas of film-making in the new millennium. But the crisis of the local and regional in globalised times is tha
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Archiving an archivist

An anthology of P.K. Nair’s writings provides one a glimpse into the heart and mind of a diehard cinephile who was also an archivist, a chronicler and
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Kochi, Kerala, 17/09/2016 : Logo of Kochi - Muziris Biennale. .Photo : Special Arangement

Conversations on multiplicity

Interview with Sudarshan Shetty, curator, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.
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Chennai: 02/03/2016: The Hindu: Front Line: Book Review Column: Title: Amar Akbar Anthony. Author: William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke and Andy Rotman. Publisher: Harvard Business Books Publications release.

Deconstructing a potboiler

An eminently readable book that will delight any cineaste for its sheer passion for cinema and for the delightful theoretical dexterity with which it
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Chennai: 03/03/2016: The Hindu: Front Line: Book Review Column: Title: Reel World. On location in Kollywood. Author: Anand Pandian Publisher: Penquin Viking Books Publications release.

Image and image-making

A close look at the often unseen and unacknowledged but thrillingly unpredictable processes that go into the making of magical images and sounds on sc
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Mapping themes in Adoor’s films

A panoramic and intense study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s work in all its diversity and complexity.
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Experiments with truth

Riyas Komu’s work “On International Workers’ Day, Gandhi from Kochi”, which layers a Gandhi image against a background reminiscent of the red flag, a
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Kochi _ Kerala, 06/02/13. Caption: Curator-artist duro Riyas Komu and Bose Krishnamachari talk to The Hindu at Aspinwall House in Fort Kochi, the main venue of Kochi-Muziris Biennale._Photo: H_Vibhu

‘It is my attempt to reclaim fearlessness’

In conversation with Riyas Komu.
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Fable for the times

PK is a film that, through an alien figure, throws up point-blank questions about religious beliefs, customs, rituals, temples of gods, priests, godme
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New trails of discovery

Cinema was adopted enthusiastically by the pluralistic society of Kerala, just emerging from feudalism and casteism in the early 20th century, as an i
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Thilakan, who had an all-consuming passion for acting.-H. VIBHU

Portrait of a patriarch

Thilakan (1938-2012), the quintessential father figure in Malayalam cinema, stood out for his ability to bring raw and untameable energy into his perf
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