Favourites are just favourites from last month.

I can’t believe internet romanticised this film so much for it to be 2 hours of what I can only describe as a visualisation of the male gaze. The main titular character has no personality except that she is sad and beautiful and abused. Those are her only traits. Any diolague that she has are either in the main male character’s sexual fantasies of her or her talking to/fighting off her abs. The above scene is always presented on social…
You know why Pa. Ranjith's Madras and Sarpattai Parambarai worked but not Kabali or to some extent the second half of Kaala?
The answer is pretty simple. Madras and Sarpattai Parambarai are films based on working class of North Chennai which Pa. Ranjith was able to capture the minute details and nuances and craft a good film around the politics or lifestyle over that particular locality. Furthermore, he's literally a resident of the people of North Chennai, which is including…