Book Review Painting the worldC.S. VenkiteswaranIt also gives readers a comprehensive historical-aesthetic perspective on his life and works.
Book Review A cinephile, a city, and a film-makerC.S. VenkiteswaranReading it is akin to riding on a roller coaster replete with references to films, literature, and politics.
Film Review Movie Review: ‘Puzhu’ dissects the insidious worm of casteC.S. VenkiteswaranPuzhu is the most recent in a series of Malayalam films that have explored and elaborated on the ways in which caste hatred and violence works in Kera
Image and image-makingC.S. VENKITESWARANA close look at the often unseen and unacknowledged but thrillingly unpredictable processes that go into the making of magical images and sounds on sc
Mapping themes in Adoor’s filmsC.S. VENKITESWARANA panoramic and intense study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s work in all its diversity and complexity.
Exhibition Experiments with truthC.S. VENKITESWARANRiyas Komu’s work “On International Workers’ Day, Gandhi from Kochi”, which layers a Gandhi image against a background reminiscent of the red flag, a
Interview: Riyas Komu ‘It is my attempt to reclaim fearlessness’C. S. VENKITESWARANIn conversation with Riyas Komu.
PK Fable for the timesC.S. VENKITESWARANPK is a film that, through an alien figure, throws up point-blank questions about religious beliefs, customs, rituals, temples of gods, priests, godme
Malayalam New trails of discoveryC. S. VenkiteswaranCinema was adopted enthusiastically by the pluralistic society of Kerala, just emerging from feudalism and casteism in the early 20th century, as an i
Portrait of a patriarchC.S. VENKITESWARANThilakan (1938-2012), the quintessential father figure in Malayalam cinema, stood out for his ability to bring raw and untameable energy into his perf
The Art vs Artist conundrum and the audience that is between them An effective way of taking revenge against artists is to consign them to oblivion.
SlideshowColours of desireA mother’s sari collection feels like an act of vengeance against a life that had deprived her of small joys in her youth.
