Aravaan Vasanthabalan’s had a win­ning streak, mak­ing socially con­scious films with ‘Veyyil’ and ‘Angaadi Theru’. His films have helped us take notice of the lit­tle peo­ple around us that we’re too busy to take observe. When he chose a lit­er­ary hit, to re-imagine,...

Aaranyakan­dam Indira Gamdhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Direc­tor Pro­ducer:  SP Cha­ran Direc­tor:  Kumararaja Thi­a­gara­jan “A styl­ized and ironic rein­ven­tion of the gang­ster genre that presents a daz­zling map of Chennai’s sub­ter­ranean world of druglo­rds...

If you watched the Oscars and went away think­ing ‘The Artist’ seemed like a main­stream reject that the Oscars usu­ally laps up and car­ries over its shoul­ders, just to prove how they (the Acad­emy) is still in tune with the artsy types. Please recon­sider. Try watch­ing it on...

Kadhalil Sod­ha­pu­vadhu Yep­padi (KSY) arrives to Tamil (and Tel­ugu) cin­ema, a (Very) wel­come twist to the cam­pus rom­com. Wel­come the movie pow­ered by our “Like”. 10 years ago you wouldn’t have had a title like this. Nei­ther would a YouTube sen­sa­tion have made...

 Marina, the shore-front that wel­comed the found­ing fathers of mod­ern Chen­nai. Wit­ness to the trans­for­ma­tion of a clutch of vil­lages to a major metro. The oasis on the   edge of a con­crete jun­gle. I can go on with this…or ask you to sim­ply go lis­ten to that...