COUNTER CULTURE Natchathiram Nagargiradhu: A cinematic experiment gone sour Prathyush ParasuramanPa. Ranjith’s latest film is as dull, as self-congratulating and as long as a manifesto.
COUNTER CULTURE Neat and anodyne: Anurag Kashyap misses a beat with ‘Dobaaraa’Prathyush ParasuramanThe perverse lushness of Kashyap’s cinema is lacking in Dobaaraa, making it his worst film to date.
Counter Culture ‘Panchayat’ recreates village life in its language of languor Prathyush ParasuramanBut it is also designed to keep all discomforts like caste or queerness at bay.
Counter Culture Behemoth studios in the era of pan-Indian filmsPrathyush ParasuramanYash Raj Films used to set trends, not follow them. Can it turn the tide?
Counter Culture What explains the asphyxiating glut of biopics in Indian cinema?Prathyush ParasuramanFilm-makers attempt to stun spectators into worship as opposed to crafting a complicated portrait.
Counter Culture The Great Indian Family is in transition Prathyush ParasuramanThe family in pop culture is morphing into an unsteady and fragile site of introspection.
Counter Culture Are Hindi films problematising history?Prathyush ParasuramanAfter Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
Counter Culture Art - or dull propaganda?Prathyush ParasuramanArt can be respite, it can be raging, it can be reckless. But when it is reduced to elegant pamphleteering with moral certitude, it becomes dull propa
Counter Culture Elon Musk and the culture of greed pridePrathyush ParasuramanIf we take seriously the premise that cinema is reflective of the times it is embedded in, then the sudden expression of money and luxury as heroic en
Natchathiram Nagargiradhu: A cinematic experiment gone sour Pa. Ranjith’s latest film is as dull, as self-congratulating and as long as a manifesto.
