Lakshmi Talkies and Whistling Samosas
A taste of Isai’s poems that observe life through the lens of Tamil cinema.
Scents and Sensibility
Notes from a conversation between Santiago Gamboa, a novelist from Colombia, and Tran Anh Hùng, a filmmaker from Vietnam at Singapore Writers Festival 2018.
The Chennai of Tamil Cinema
I wonder why we seem to be seeing the same few stories over and over, when there are several more unfolding at any given moment in Chennai.
Mahanagar and Abataranika: Adapting story to film
I believe a faithful adaptation is one that captures the soul of the original work and can choose to leave out any details that don’t add to it. I can see that Ray is a master at this.