Tag: PesumPadam
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Nayakan – The first masterpiece
This essay is part of the Pesum Padam – Mani Ratnam Retrospective Series and revisits Nayakan. Watch the retrospective tomorrow on youtube. My maternal grandfather, was the most righteous man I knew. He saw the world in clean lines. You were either good or you were not. Yet for all his black-and-white convictions, there was one name he spoke…
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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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Mouna Ragam: Why Mani Ratnam’s Classic Still Hits Hard
Written as part of the Pesum Padam – Mani Ratnam Retrospective Series, this piece revisits Mouna Ragam. Click to watch the Mouna Ragam retrospective. A girl, a boy, an arranged marriage, the ghost of a lost love, the divorce papers, the heart that will not quit. That is Mouna Ragam in six beats, Mani Ratnam’s 1986 film that…
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all that is – 3: the stomach charmer
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was a truth universally acknowledged, at least by the teachers and half the student body, that his stomach had a mind of its own. On most days, it operated within acceptable parameters—growling at lunch, bubbling during chemistry—but occasionally, it would declare mutiny. This…
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Violence in Tamil Movies- PesumPadam
Explore the unseen repercussions of violence in Tamil films on our youth. Our latest PesumPadam podcast episode tackles this head-on, questioning where artistic license ends and social responsibility begins. Tune in!
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