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எது நல்ல படம் என்பதற்கான அடிப்படை அளவுகோலாக ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட படத்தின் திரைமொழியை முன்வைத்தே உரையாட முடியும். திரைமொழி என்றால் என்ன? எளிமையாகச் சொல்லவேண்டுமெனில் திரைப்படம் என்பது காட்சி ஊடகம். எதையும் வசனமாகச் ‘சொல்லாமல்’ பார்வையாளர்களுக்கு உணர்த்த விரும்புவதைக் ‘காட்ட’ வேண்டும். இதன் அர்த்தம், குறைவான வசனங்கள் உள்ளவையே நல்ல படங்கள் என்பதல்ல. கதாபாத்திரங்களின் உணர்ச்சிகள், மெல்லிய உருமாற்றங்கள், உளவியல், சம்பவங்களின் பின்னணி, அதன் பாதிப்புகள் என எல்லாவற்றையும் உரையாடல் வழியே ஒப்புவித்துச் செல்லக்கூடாது. செறிவான காட்சிப்படிமங்களின் […]

One of the fallouts of having a home-schooled daughter is that you get to do certain things you wouldn’t otherwise do. I have been revisiting some of the English classics along with her and relishing the experience. A recent addition was Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. I now realize that Scott does not hold a very high […]

I am not the Buddha When I rest under the banyan With closed eyes, folded knees, ‘Look after carefully’ Sounded an owl Giving her little one to me And went on its way ‘Keep these with care’ Said the green parakeet, Thrusted some ripened fruits In my lap and left ‘Save this pearl necklace’ Ordered […]

The birds were chirping in a high pitch during dawn past few days. Crows and mynahs make noises as though they were pecking one another and fighting. Echoing this tantrum peacocks’ screams were heard from the bushes above the stream. It’s unusual of peacocks to scream as the day begins. But the whooping of the […]

The whole world is talking about Covid-19, the global pandemic caused by an unassuming, invisible, but seemingly invincible enemy of the humankind. Even in the rural areas and suburbs, there are barricades, banning the public to move around, or even pass by a house, or a vegetable shop, having been identified as a place of […]

‘Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment. The significance of investigative journalism attracts a wide audience, especially after the compilations of Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian investigative journalist and oral historian, won a Nobel Prize in Literature. Her compilations brought some of the […]

1 Churches in Australia had requested the people to pray for the consolance of his soul, tolling at evening six, on the day of passing his Death penalty for Arulkumaran. 2 Thavaranjani was hitting the doors of the jailhouse hard, crying. Although, permitted duration for visiting Arulkumaran had ceased, she kept hollering with deafening voice […]

Soon after the SARS-CoV-2 virus was identified in Wuhan in December 2019 and a pandemic started developing, the Indian government acted reasonably quickly to bring the Indian citizens stranded in Wuhan and other foreign countries to India, despite the risk of spreading the novel corona virus in India. Irrespective of the merits of the move, […]

Here is the ranking of best directors. For this classification, different criteria has been taken into account in order to remain as objective as possible. It comprises directors of all kind – young and old, known and less known – to confirm the diversity and richness of cinema as an exemplary art form. A book […]

This is an audacious attempt to compile the best films of all time. The history of cinema is filled with auteurs and establishing a ranking of the best is a perilous exercise. In this tedious task, I preferred to be objective and rank them in order. Here you go. Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky (1966, […]

Giridharan Rajagopalan has been diligently working at his short fiction since 2006 and it is indeed shocking that the collection published this year is his first, especially if one takes into consideration that some of the very best ones in this book have appeared online as early as 2013. Indifference being the permanently prevailing zeitgeist […]

In the nineteenth century Emerson echoed the voice of Socrates and Montaigne and went beyond the notion of self-consciousness to self-reliance. Other new age gurus like Gurdjieff, J.Krishnamurti and D.T Suzuki made self-consciousness, the basic premise of their systems of esoteric philosophy. In this history of the idea of self-consciousness, one name was missing. That […]