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.
Interview: Riyas Komu ‘It is my attempt to reclaim fearlessness’C. S. VENKITESWARANIn conversation with Riyas Komu.
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
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
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
