The Two Fridas
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like...
Testing Mangalorean Sensibilities – Post U Turn and Godhi Banna
What’s up with Kannada cinema? Last week, I popped over to where you find the most random group of Indians- Quora, and found an endless supply of memes that praised...
BIFFES 2016
[caption id="attachment_1274" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Bengaluru International Film Festival Picture courtesy -...
From the Outside
I am a little irritated with Puta Thirugisi Nodu when it begins. The film opens with a set of interviews in which Bangaloreans are asked about the games they played...
Kitney Fitoor Thay
At Rex, there are fifteen people in the audience at the night show of Fitoor and perhaps ten of those fifteen are up there in the balcony. Begum Hazrat (Tabu)...
Back-benching with First Rank Raju
It has been ages since I watched a Kannada film, especially one in a stand-alone theatre. When Amma told me that she and Ajji were headed to watch a Kannada...
My poor reading habits
[caption id="attachment_1213" align="aligncenter" width="2479"] Cartoon by Veena Carmel.[/caption] These days, I spend most of my time on YouTube or Watch Series. The habit of picking up a book when bored or...
Two for Tamasha
Part 1 As I rode my bike to the mall, it took me several minutes to digest the fact that I was going to the theatre alone! Actually, this was...