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Malik Fahadh Faasil
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Why Fahadh Faasil Is Not Convincing As The Older Suleiman Ali In Malik

  • Posted on July 22, 2021
  • by Sairam Sanathkumar
There is no obvious fatigue that comes with age in Ali Ikka’s body language, no visible markers of ageing
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Malik Examines The Tragic Interplay Of Religion And Violence

  • Posted on July 14, 2021
  • by Anupama Chopra
Fahadh Faasil combines delicate melancholy with majesty and becomes, in every way, a malik
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Ilaiyaraaja And Mani Ratnam: On Their Shared Birthday, Ten Songs From Their Ten Films
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Ilaiyaraaja & Mani Ratnam: On Their Birthday, 10 Songs From 10 Films

  • Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
Here are the top numbers from each film, where they both leave their respective marks: in other words, song sequences that stand out because of the music as well as the staging.
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ks Back On The Bigness Of The Big Screen
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Memories Of The Movie Theatre: Nayakan, Mother India, Karma...

  • Posted on April 19, 2020May 19, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The lockdown has only meant that we are craving for something we can’t have right now: Going to the movies
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Rajinikanth And The Existential Underpinnings In Pa Ranjith’s Kabali
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Rajinikanth And The Existential Underpinnings In Pa Ranjith’s Kabali

  • Posted on April 13, 2020May 19, 2020
  • by Team FC
Kabali gives you the feeling that maybe, there is a subconscious to Rajinikanth, and it was indeed aching to reach some sort of a resting place to make peace with the actor vs. star image, writes FC reader Aditya A Iyer
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My Favourite So Bad It’s Good Film: The Kamal Haasan-starrer, ‘Kadhal Parisu’

  • Posted on June 28, 2019May 15, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The director puts Radha in a short skirt. He puts Kamal in a toga, which means the hero ends up showing more leg than the heroine
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Narcotics Is A Dirty Business: Revisiting Padmarajan’s Noirish Season, Thirty Years A...

  • Posted on May 15, 2019May 15, 2020
  • by Vishal Menon
An eye for an eye, drug trade, Godfather oranges…the amoral Padmarajan universe where bad money fights blood money
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Movies I Love: Manu Joseph on Nayagan 

  • Posted on April 29, 2019May 10, 2020
  • by Team FC
‘Even today my central ideas of storytelling are from watching Nayagan,’ writes the award-winning author of Serious Men
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nassar
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Greys To Black: The Many Villain Roles Of Nassar

  • Posted on March 5, 2019May 15, 2020
  • by Team FC
From playing a flawed idealist to downright evil, on the actor’s birthday, we examine the different shades in his negative roles and how he managed to set one apart from the others
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All Your Questions On Kamal Haasan-Starrer Nayakan Answered

  • Posted on March 17, 2018May 15, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
Our FC South editor Baradwaj Rangan addresses all your questions about Mani Ratnam’s iconic 1987 film
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The Mani Ratnam Interview

  • Posted on April 6, 2017May 14, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
In this three-part interview we cover all aspects of the filmmaker’s arc – from his writing process to a deep dive into his best work
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