Tag: Rajinikanth
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The Atlas of Ghee and Gridlock
Optional, but for those who like their comedies with a prologue, please see Part 1: A Summer of Good Intentions and Bad Attention. It began, as all midlife revelations do in the year 2025, with a YouTube thumbnail: a woman in Santorini holding The Bell Jar like a wine glass, promising that travel had healed…
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Thalapathi: A Brother in the Dark
This essay is part of the Pesum Padam – Mani Ratnam Retrospective Series and revisits Thalapathi. Watch the retrospective on youtube. Shakespeare wrote three great tragedies, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. The last of these, a bleak study on age, inheritance, and madness, was reimagined by Akira Kurosawa into Ran, a Japanese war epic where…
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Rajini – The Enduring Art of the Superstar
In the cinematic cosmos, a Rajinikanth movie universe is a galaxy unto itself. Each film, woven with a blend of myth, magic, and humanism, forms a constellation of narratives that often transcend the barriers of logic and reality. Within this universe, Rajini, with his inimitable style and charisma, plays roles that are both timeless and…
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