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• Arjun Janya’s ‘45’ is a collection of good ideas that just don’t come together
• Readers Write In #919: Thoughts on Jay Kelly
• Readers Write In #918: Baba, Anbe Sivam and Wake Up Dead Man: An Atheist’s Journey
• The Galatta Plus Anchors Round Table 2025
• Sriram Raghavan’s ‘Ikkis’ is an anti-war drama that’s different but also distant
• Happy 2026, all!
• Readers Write In #917: What I attended in 2025: Concerts
• Readers Write In #916: New TBR Format
• Readers Write In #915: 23rd Chennai International Film Festival
• Readers Write In #914: In a Lonely Place: An Engaging Toxic Romance in the Guise of a Noir Thriller
• Readers Write In #913: Two ‘unrelated’ stories 
• My Top 10 Films of 2025
• Nanda Kishore’s ‘Vrusshabha’ has a fine idea that’s lost in the execution
• The Galatta Plus Mega Actors Round Table 2025
• Kris Thirukumaran’s ‘Retta Thala’ is a crime thriller that wants to be stylish and ends up being pretentious
• Akhil Sathyan’s ‘Sarvam Maya’ is an easy watch but it’s not as engaging as it should be
• Briefly Reviewed – James Cameron’s ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
• Interview: Neena Gupta (‘Vadh 2’)
• Readers Write In #912: Wake Up Dead Man: Faith, Morality, and the Limits of Justice
• Readers Write In #911: Who art thou, Man?  
• Suresh Rajakumari’s ‘Sirai’ is a tight, focused, satisfying drama about a cop and a criminal 
• Readers Write In #910: An electrical engineer comes of age finally
• Interview: Upendra, Shiva Rajkumar, Raj B Shetty (’45’)
• Readers Write In #909: ஒரு வலம் மட்டுமே
• Readers Write In #908: ‘Time’less Classics
• The Galatta Plus Mega Directors Round Table 2025
• Farewell, Sreenivasan (1956-2025)
• Ramesh Sippy’s ‘Sholay: The Final Cut’ is the definitive iteration of the greatest masala movie ever made in India
• Interview: Kichcha Sudeep (‘Mark’)
• KS Ravikumar’s re-released ‘Padayappa’ is a Superstar movie that caps off his nineties’ phase of pure, innocent, populist entertainment
• Lights, Camera, Analysis: Manoj Bajpayee, Raj & DK (‘The Family Man’)
• Readers Write In #907: The Great Shamsuddin Family
• The Galatta Plus Mega Tamil Cinema Round Table 2025
• Readers Write In #906: Rediscovering Cléo: A Film That Refuses to Age
• Interview: Aanand L Rai (‘Tere Ishk Mein’)
• From the Web (FTW) #34: 120 Bahadur flops, Dhurandhar soars: A lesson in patriotism psychology
• Readers Write In #905: ரஜினி பாதி .. கமல் பாதி ..
• Readers Write In #904: KALAMKAVAL – Settling for good without striving for great
• Nalan Kumarasamy’s ‘Vaa Vaathiyaar’
• Interview: Sriram Raghavan (‘Ikkis’)
• From the Web (FTW) #33: Inside the twisted mind of a hired rapist
• From the Web (FTW) #32: All hail Avatar! How event movies are trying to bring back the box office blockbuster
• Readers Write In #903: Dhurandhar’s Experiment With Truth
• Readers Write In #902: Thoughts on ‘Dhurandhar’, which I really like
• Readers Write In #901: A Superstar by Another Name
• Interview: Kriti Sanon (‘Tere Ishk Mein’)
• Readers Write In #900: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest: Translating Kurosawa’s Class Critique for the Age of Social Media
• Readers Write In #899: The real day-to-day wars that we should be thankful for!!
• The Galatta Plus Mega Carnatic Round Table 2025
• Jithin K Jose’s ‘Kalamkaval’ is a solid cop-versus-killer movie with top-notch performances