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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Selvamani Selvaraj instills Kaantha with such propulsive force that it is impossible to look away. It's also the most gorgeous Tamil film of the year. The actors take care of the rest. Review, www.ottplay.com/features/kaa...

Screenshot of review of Tamil film Kaantha

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

On the feral charms of Varsha Bharath's BAD GIRL, its wonderful elliptical structure and Saranya Ravichandran's Selvi www.ottplay.com/features/bad...

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Some quick notes on Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Saiyaara is good indeed. Some rough thoughts

Letterboxd review of Hindi film Saiyaara

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

We are halfway through to a Carliga Wimbledon

Alcaraz and Swiatek at Rafa farewell in Roland Garros

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Rewatched 28 Days Later and it is still so visceral and fresh for a film that attached to its formal aesthetics. But found these lb reviews to be gold!

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It has essays by Jai Arjun Singh, MK Raghavendra, CS Venkiteswaran, Prathyush Parasuraman, Juhi Saklani, Trisha Gupta, a Nasri Munni Kabir interview and more. A true collectible.

Cover of Frontline magazine Raj Kapoor special issue

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

She is doing tennis for BBC this summer. Previously she was with Sky when working in England? Sky team is here:

Sky Sports commentary for WTC from commentators database

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

From the length of the highlights take a guess which is the 6-0 6-1 match and which one is 7-6 4-6 7-6

Screenshot of tennis channel page for ATP and WTA highlights

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I am looking at the big picture here. The international intrigue hodgepodge aside, Prithviraj's #L2Empuraan centers the Muslim identity and experience in modern India. No big budget star vehicle has done this. Quite a feat. Review, www.ottplay.com/features/l2-...

Screenshot of review of Prithviraj's L2: Empuraan

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

On Rajeshwar Kalisamy's Kudumbasthan and working class solidarity

Screenshot of letterboxd review of Tamil film Kudumbasthan

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Found this interesting. There are a lot of issues with the unorganized financial structure especially in Tamil cinema. It is limiting and shrinking the slate. But it is also what protects it from this sort of self-censorship.

Screenshot from Anna Vetticad's Article 14 piece on self-censorship in Hindi cinema

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Facts and all that www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Actor Wallace Shawn compares Israeli treatment of Gaza to Nazi Germany

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Was reading the Lexington Letters email wrt Severance and I must say this is a lot like the rejection emails I receive for my pitches. That playoff line adding insult to injury - let's focus on the stuff that will get clicks.

screenshot from Lexington Letters, an addendum from Severance TV series related novella

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Me on the other site on Jan 19. Jan 24/25 the teaser and ensuing reactions. QED.

screenshot of a tweet on tamil cinema from @gradwolf

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Dibakar quite disarmingly said if Tees had released all fine, he would have been like "Why Bhubaneswar. It's released!". But that's not happening so he has all this rebellious spirit to take the film and show it anywhere. Tees @ 14th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar

Filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee at post screening Q&A after screening of his film Tees at 14th Indian Film Festival Bhubaneswar

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

skyfeed feed builder. I used video/myvids feed as input instead of entire network (like it is for tennis feed) and it throws this error:

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Apparently it is not possible yet to input from the new video feed (counts as official bsky feed?)

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Caught up with The Paperboy (like a lot of people because it is on Criterion). Thoroughly impressed, what an unhinged film, but this is the most bizarre thing I've come across

Nicole Kidman nominated for Actress most in need of a new agent for The Paperboy (2012)

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It was indeed Geetha Kailasam's year

My Letterboxd Wrapped of 2024 and films logged and reviewed. Picture of actor Geetha Kailasam and director Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Jayan Cherian's Rhythm of Dammam (Konkani, Kannada). The Siddi community, their culture, rituals and historicity finds rare documentation in a ménage à trois of music, dance and horror.

Still from Rhythm of Dammam, film playing at IFFK

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Two selections go to the International Competition. First up, Abhijit Mazumdar's Body (Hindi), a film in which a young man encounters expression of guilt, shame, trauma in his own physical form.

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Bharat Singh Parihar's Bhediya Dhasaan/Sheep Barn (Hindi). Also set in the hills, an ominous film about the sinister ways of men giving new meaning to man-animal conflict.

Still from Sheep Barn, film playing at IFFK

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Subhadra Mahajan's Second Chance (Hindi, Himachali, English). Another monochrome entry, the choice adding a lot to this film about a woman who finds solace and meaning in the hills, pulling the future closer just as it threatens to get away from her.

Still from Second Chance, film playing at IFFK

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Abhilash Sharma's In the Name of Fire/Swaha (Magahi). A grim portrait of a husband, wife and child living a life too common, suffocating under the weight of a bleak world. Breathtakingly filmed in black and white.

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Aranya Sahay's Humans in the Loop (Hindi). A single mother, her child, artificial intelligence and a porcupine populate a film that foregrounds nature and reinvents nurture.

Still from Humans in the Loop, film playing at IFFK

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Jaicheng Xai Dohutia's Baghjan (Assamese) questions the nature of an oil leak tragedy in Assam, blending documentary and fiction, in both footage and characters/actors. Some of the most striking images complement a tragic but rebellious spirit.

Still from Baghjan, film playing at IFFK

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Vipin Radhakrishnan's Angammal (Tamil) based on Perumal Murugan's Kodithuni. Soft. Unapologetic. A titular role for Geetha Kailasam. Funnily enough, has shades of Balachander. With Saran Sakthi and Mullaiyarasi, big performers who found small roles in Meiyazhagan and Kottukkaali.

Still from Angammal, film playing at IFFK

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Aaryan Chandra Prakash's Aajoor is a Bajjika language film that is more of a day in the life of Saloni. A quiet, observant film about a girl and her father, strivers determined to make their way towards light.

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