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Category Movies

Why Kaanekkaane Needs a Horror Sequel

Yet another blog about a movie that pissed me off – that would be an apt description for this blog. The movie in focus today is the Suraj Venjarammoodu-Tovino Thomas-Aishwarya Lekshmi starrer Kaanekkaane. It had pretty decent reviews, both from… Continue Reading →

Take a Bow, Dear Mammootty!

I am not one to write about movies, mostly because I watch every new movie months after its release and by then, my post has no relevance. I have written about movies only when there has been something about the… Continue Reading →

Kantara – When Onscreen Heroes Turn Offscreen Villains

As I write this, Kantara has already gone on to become one of the biggest commercial and critical successes of the Indian movie industry, and is still raking in money and positive reviews. And above all, the movie seems to… Continue Reading →

An “Aww so Innocent” Rapist’s Story

I watched a 2019-Malayalam movie called ‘Kettyolaanu Ente Malakha’ on some OTT platform, a few months after its release. I watched it mainly because of the positive reviews showered on it for talking about a taboo topic – marital rape…. Continue Reading →

For the Celebrity-Kid-Hating Psychopaths

“Dhoni’s 5-year-old daughter Ziva is getting rape threats after CSK lost IPL match to KKR” This is the headline that greeted me on Google Discover last evening. Needless to say, I could feel my blood boil after taking one look… Continue Reading →

An All-Out Thappad

When All Out came up with its “Tough Moms” campaign in early 2018, it became an instant hit for its message – when mothers are tough on their kids, support them, for they do it for the kids’ good. Shared… Continue Reading →

Swooning Belles

I was listening to the song “Mundhinam Parthein” from the Tamil movie “Vaaranam Aayiram”, yet another Gautham Menon movie that was hailed for its ‘True love at first sight’ bullshit. (In hindsight that seems to be the core theme for… Continue Reading →

Misogyny in Movies – Q&A

I have been receiving some questions and views on my last post which was an extension of the forever-ongoing “Kabir Singh”/”Arjun Reddy” controversy which I was staying away from till now. I thought of replying to my friends in their… Continue Reading →

Casual Evils

I was reading about the social media outrage on Kartik Aryan’s rant normalizing marital rape in ‘Pati Patni Aur Woh’. I then read the justifications masked as apology from ‘sources’ close to the makers as well as from the lead… Continue Reading →

The ‘Menon’ Controversy

I had written a blog in July about how people use religion and caste as their favourite tool for division and bring those into issues that have nothing to do with them. One of the examples I had used in… Continue Reading →

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