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  Nandha 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched by chinmay 19 Jun 2022

  (i’ve been wanting to write a piece on bala and the role his filmography serves as a microcosm of the ideological displacement of a significant portion of popular tamil cinema during the aughts since i was introduced to his work through naan kadavul but i figured it would perhaps be worth waiting until i reached a greater level of familiarity w tamil cinema and its history as a collective whole before doing so. now that i’ve achieved that to some…

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  Kaalia 1981

  Watched by chinmay 06 Jun 2022 2

  angry young man amitabh except it’s me when i’m reading a letterboxd review and someone drops the term “liminal space” or “temporality”

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  Band Baaja Baaraat 2010

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by chinmay 13 Sep 2021 7

  this is difficult to articulate, but i feel like it’s only fitting that i try my best considering all that he’s done for me. i could not possibly condense everything i have to say into a single review so i’ll talk about one thing in particular.

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