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Bombay: Notes from a Burning House
This essay is part of the Pesum Padam – Mani Ratnam Retrospective Series and revisits Bombay. Watch the retrospective on youtube. It’s hard to say exactly when the house began to burn. Was it the moment Shaila Banu and Shekhar first exchanged glances on a quiet boat ride in Tirunelveli? Was it when their love, innocent…
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Raayan: Intense, Violent, and Claustrophobic Fast Food
Remember how Vetrimaran’s Aadukalam begins? A frantic crowd tries to breach a brick house from every direction, and a piece of wood splinters as someone smashes it against the door, revealing a man inside watching with eerie detachment. Picture Dhanush in that moment—his face twisted with rage, a bloodied sickle in hand, anger bubbling beneath…
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