Last month I was invited to be guest editor on the Onam edition of Times of India. It was my first time doing something like this and with great excitement, Dipal Gala, the Features editor & myself set about getting the writers together. Of late many incidents in Kerala illustrated how divisive things...
Thank you for all the love you have shown us for our previous films and for your lovely eagerness about KOODE. I usually write a note on the eve of the release so here goes: So often we struggle among the past and the future, forgetting the value of the present. This movie is...
As a new bride in a new city, I was quite lost. Mumbai of the single days that were spent on street shopping and gol gappas and movies and partying was quite a far throw from Mumbai I discovered when I moved here after my wedding. In those days just as one is acclimatizing...
The Nirbhaya incident changed something inside many of us. I think it shook up our hopes and belief in an equal opportunity world. I remember feeling so angry yet so helpless as violations seemed to surface all around me. Violation of one person by another. Of space, of body, of mind, of respect, of...
I found myself bereft of words. Unable to even write a tribute but the truth is - he doesn’t need anyone else’s words. His own words will keep him alive forever. Kavalam Narayana Panikkar. I first met him as a newbie writer with her screenplay. A typical film-school-product I was probably too clear about the...
"So when did you decide to become a filmmaker?" I do not have this one eureka moment where such a decision was made. While I was at Pune University doing my post-grad in Communication Studies, we used to go to the National Film Archive of India for screenings of splendid films - Indian...
On the day Bangalore Days released, I put up a Facebook post “Our Bangalore Days are now yours”, and luckily the audience did actually make the film their own. :-) Over the past few weeks I have received so many messages and questions about my thoughts on the adaptation/remake of BD. An adaptation is...
The 'so-called nostalgic' among us wait for special days — when we dress up a particular way, eat certain foods and practice certain customs, and watch TV shows discussing our valuable culture. But isn’t that mistaking the wood for the trees? That is merely celebration of a certain culture. Real culture comprises of...
"Which films/ filmmakers have inspired you?" This is a common question that I rarely get to answer properly. I was recently asked this question as the base for an entire interview. Though we had to limit it to one representational film, I was happy to have an opportunity to discuss whys and hows...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to UAE and the Malayalam words in his speech yesterday, are an acknowledgement of a population that has long yearned for such recognition. My father T.M.Nair arrived in Dubai in 1959. Until then he was working with Burmah Shell, Bombay. Ambition drove him across the seas. After a...
