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  # 76 Moments Strangers whose paths hadn’t met. Neither aware of the other’s existence. Of infinite possibilities — their paths met. For the briefest moment in time, there was nothing but joy. How long is a moment? A minute or a year, she wondered. Their paths separated, each their own way. Strangers again, but not stranger enough #77 The trail He was walking by the lane, minding his own business. There was just one path to follow, one place to go. Everyone knew what had to be done, no orders needed. You just had to follow the trail. Every day,every night. There was no prize for reaching first, no traffic to be fixed. Wasn’t it boring, repetitive? Had anyone ever rebelled? He hadn’t. Didn’t need to. Follow the trail, get the job done. You could get in their way, be an obstacle. A mammoth one. They’d find a way around you. Below you. Over you. They’d find a way to the other side, it was all that mattered. His folks took pride in their efficiency, work rate. Humans read books, resea...

In conversation with Punjai Arun “Punjai” Arun is a well known social media influencer, who is an expert on contemporary cinema, known to promote lesser-known works. He doesn’t mince words even at the risk of being trolled by fan armies and is well known for being the first person after the director to know the release date.   Thank you so much for your time sir. So in the past we only had movies in theatres and/or on tv. Now we have so much stuff online like streaming sites, in addition to regular movies..More than a person can handle.  How does one deal with so much Choice...( Like analysis paralysis with so many options?)...and how do you stay updated with so many movies/series coming out every day?    I follow a bunch of critics from popular cinema based sites like rollerstone (Alan Sepinwall is one of my favorites), Variety, Uproxx and few others. They help me find all these interesting shows from OTT platforms.  And few others I wat...

Brownie She was so happy. Her proposal had been accepted finally.  All that hard work, all those late nights had paid off.  She turned to look outside the window.  The skies did not echo her sentiments. They were the most morose shade of grey possible. She searched for rays of sunshine, but it was as dark as the  ocean floor.  All the joy left her like a punctured balloon.  She turned around to text her friend about how her best day was actually morose. She felt horrible to always be the one who had a bad day. 10 mins of scrolling later, she realised she had nobody  to say this to.  She decided to make the most of  what she had.  She walked down through the now pouring rain,  gingerly tiptoeing over puddles. She swore as mud got into her shoes. She felt extremely stupid for not being dressed monsoon friendly during monsoons.  This wasn't ...

Exhale She watched his breath rise and fall jaggedly. His breath stopped for a moment when time stood still. Slowly he got back into rhythm. She planted her face in her hands. What had she done to deserve this? What could she do to fix this? This was all her fault. Except it wasn't . She didn't chose for this to happen. She flitted between feeling horrible for herself and feeling responsible for something she couldn't fix. She waited patiently as the clock ticked on. The hands of the clock seemed to wait to make each second of this  agonisingly longer. She woke up to find the room being cleaned up. Nothing made sense. Nobody  would tell her anything. The doctor came in to give her, what he assumed to be the bad news. Her heart lifted. She was finally free. Nobody to hit her. Nobody to hurt her. Nobody to steal her childhood. Cloud nine She was on cloud nine. She had finally finished her last day of school. This meant no more exams, no more n...

I am not a reviewer. I don't even know who Kurosowa is ( I heard about him 3 days back). I just had a lot of thoughts that needed spilling and here they are. If I have to talk about things I know it would be limited to Varada being miraculously allowed in the OT (evalo periya appatucker aa irundhalum OT la entry kadaikadhu).. Senapathi's stay in the hospital and so on. Yet I am here and typing this out to get it out of my system. There will be spoilers. Whether you watch the movie or not, is on you. If you went to this movie expecting  other than tastefully shot testosterone fueled bloodshed with a lot of unspoken dialogue, and dramaless drama,  you will be disappointed. Visuals-wise this movie was arachuvitta sambhar but for the eyes. A lot of sun-play everywhere, which are some of the best moments in the movie, whether it is Vijay Sethupathi as Rasool (Screamed for the first time in the theatre, feels good, not going to lie) Varada in many...