Funny & Happy
Nawaz Was Here (Voice Only)
Genius: Why?
Genius (2018): a JEE topper who is also Rambo, a phone that hacks banks, a plot that says 'Wait!' ten times, and Nawazuddin, mostly heard and rarely seen.
I Diagress: Movies, Books, and More
We started talking about a story and ended up weaving our own stories.
Stories are only the beginning.
A movie can lead to a book.A book can lead to a memory.A memory can lead somewhere completely unexpected.
Here are the essays, observations, arguments and occasional digressions that happened along the way.
This isn't a review section. This is where stories start conversations.
The Long Way Round
For when a story refuses to remain just a story.
Reflective · Literary · Philosophical
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Anand Gandhi: Anatomy of a Decision
A silent monk navigating the Ship of Theseus
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Snowpiercer: Varna on Wheels
An Indian Reading of a Closed System
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Guide: The Book, The Movie, and Then the Other Movie
How Guide Rewrote Its Guide
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Drishyam 2: A Writer's Conscience
Georgekutty got away from prison. Did he get away from punishment?
The Short Way Round
For when we watched something and immediately had opinions.
Funny · Nostalgic · Absurd
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Nawaz Was Here (Voice Only)
Genius: Why?
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Choricha Mamla
Who Is the Real Chor?
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Miत्रों (Mitron)
A Pav Bhaji of a Comedy
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Ingenuity of Limitations
Shrimant Damodar Pant: the natak, the movie, and why less is more
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विकी वेलिंगकर
दहा जीव, एक घड्याळ आणि आजीचा ब्लू झोन
NowShowing
The latest detours.
Funny & Happy
Nawaz Was Here (Voice Only)
Genius: Why?
Genius (2018): a JEE topper who is also Rambo, a phone that hacks banks, a plot that says 'Wait!' ten times, and Nawazuddin, mostly heard and rarely seen.
Long & Reflective
Coco: Remember Me, or I Fade Away
Watch, enjoy, ponder, learn: a cartoon film about the second death
Funny & Happy
विकी वेलिंगकर
दहा जीव, एक घड्याळ आणि आजीचा ब्लू झोन
Funny & Happy
Nasti Uthathev, Ingrazi Mein
Lower Marathi, Higher Pu La: An English-Medium Boy's Return to Nasti Uthathev
Long & Reflective
Drishyam 2: A Writer's Conscience
Georgekutty got away from prison. Did he get away from punishment?
Five remakes, five Georgekuttys and one buried secret: how Drishyam 2 turns a thriller sequel into a writer settling accounts with his own conscience.
An interlude
Where the digressions begin
We started talking about a movie. Somehow we're now discussing childhood, philosophy, Pune, marriage, politics and pav bhaji.
You have been warned.
The Detours
Every story wanders off somewhere. These are the roads they keep taking.
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No. 01
Philosophy
When a film turns into an argument with ourselves.
Coco Drishyam 2 Snowpiercer Anand Gandhi
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No. 02
Nostalgia
Old cinemas, old songs, old textbooks.
Coco Nasti Uthathev Parmanu Choricha Mamla
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No. 03
Comedy
Farce, slapstick and a ghost on a timetable.
Genius Vicky Velingkar Nasti Uthathev Choricha Mamla Damodar Pant Miत्रों
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No. 04
Adaptations
Book to film, stage to screen, language to language.
Drishyam 2 Snowpiercer Damodar Pant Guide
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No. 05
Marathi
Natak, sinema and Pu La.
Vicky Velingkar Nasti Uthathev Choricha Mamla Damodar Pant
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No. 06
Ghosts & Visitors
Some arrive at six. Some from Panipat.
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More Wandering
From the archive.
Mood
Format
Language
- Nawaz Was Here (Voice Only) Genius: Why?
- Coco: Remember Me, or I Fade Away Watch, enjoy, ponder, learn: a cartoon film about the second death
- विकी वेलिंगकर दहा जीव, एक घड्याळ आणि आजीचा ब्लू झोन
- Nasti Uthathev, Ingrazi Mein Lower Marathi, Higher Pu La: An English-Medium Boy's Return to Nasti Uthathev
- Drishyam 2: A Writer's Conscience Georgekutty got away from prison. Did he get away from punishment?
- To Be or Not to Be: The John Abraham Question From Madras Cafe to Parmanu, where Antakshari guards a nuclear facility
- Snowpiercer: Varna on Wheels An Indian Reading of a Closed System
- Choricha Mamla Who Is the Real Chor?
- Anand Gandhi: Anatomy of a Decision A silent monk navigating the Ship of Theseus
- Ingenuity of Limitations Shrimant Damodar Pant: the natak, the movie, and why less is more
- Miत्रों (Mitron) A Pav Bhaji of a Comedy
- Guide: The Book, The Movie, and Then the Other Movie How Guide Rewrote Its Guide
Nothing here yet. We're still on episode one.
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