Tamil movies

Paava Kadhaigal’s Thangam

Ramchander compares the short film and the short story it is based on.

3 years ago

The Tamil Villain

Karthick RM thinks it’s time we paid more attention to the villain in Tamil cinema.

4 years ago

Titillation and perversion: the cis lens of Super Deluxe

Arvind argues that this widely loved Tamil film does a grave disservice to trans people.

4 years ago

A gun, some blood, and Mysskin

Ramchander writes on Mysskin’s film Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum and translates passages from the filmmaker’s book about the film.

4 years ago

New Girl

Anusha attempts to write a short story, but it will not be entered in our contest.

4 years ago

Hallucinating Tamil Cinema

Denin Rajkumar’s artwork presents Tamil film personalities in new and unexpected ways.

4 years ago

Lakshmi Talkies and Whistling Samosas

Ramchander gives us a taste of Isai’s poems that observe life through the lens of Tamil cinema.

4 years ago

The complex trinity of women in Parasakthi

Shakila Zamboulingame analyses the representations of women in this iconic Tamil film from 1952.

4 years ago

An old man and a solitary man

Ramchander writes about Bharathiraja’s OM and Parthiban’s Oththa Seruppu, screened at Singapore South Asian International Film Festival.

5 years ago

Competing victories: Battle of sensibilities in Tamil cinema

Madhu watches two contemporaneous Tamil movies and writes about them.

5 years ago

Kaala and Pa Ranjith the artist

Ramchander argues that Pa Ranjith's filmography is never lacking in form, even if such complaints abound.

6 years ago

The Chennai of Tamil Cinema

Ramchander wonders why we seem to be seeing the same few stories over and over, when there are several more…

6 years ago

Reel, Real

Anusha Srinivasan writes about Anand Pandian's Reel World, which is an anthropologist's examination of Tamil cinema.

6 years ago