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Box Office Roundup: ‘Laabam’ and ‘Thalaivii’ Have a Dull Opening, ‘Seetimarr’ Breaks Records With First Day Collection

BY Anusha Sundar AND Anindita Banerjee On

As theatres across the country march towards normalcy, two big releases, Thalaivii starring Kangana Ranaut and Laabam starring Vijay Sethupathi and Shruti Haasan, had a dull opening at the box office. Telugu film Seetimarr starring Gopichand and Tamannaah emerged as the clear winner and collected around Rs four crore, the highest any Indian film has earned on the first day of release, since theatres in the country reopened after the second wave of Covid-19, as per a Box Office India report.

Arun Karthick’s ‘Nasir’ Wins ‘The Grand Prix’ At The 14th Andrei Tarkovsky Zerkalo International Film Festival In Russia

BY Aparajitha Balu On

Coimbatore based filmmaker Arun Karthick’s Nasir has won The Grand Prix at the 14th Andrei Tarkovsky Zerkalo International Film Festival in Russia. The festival is held every year at Ivanovo, Russia in honour of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky who is considered one of the most influential persons in the history of Russian cinema.

The Evil Of Two Lessers

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If KJo’s smirky, smarmy gang wears Prada, speaks the Anuja Chauhan brand of Oye-Bubbly Hinglish that presumes there are no non-Hindi speakers in our ancient land, uses networking, dynasty, subterfuge, back-scratching, veiled threats and one-sided contracts that exploit newcomers to monopolise the industry, Kangana Ranaut, Rangoli Chandel (the Goebbels to her Führer), Akshay Kumar, Payal Rohatgi, Anupam Kher, Prasoon Joshi, Paresh Rawal & Co use that weapon of all weapons, Patriotism, and have aligned themselves openly, fawningly, with the powers that be to beat, bully and stomp out dissent.

Nasir Review: Portrait Of An Indian Muslim’s Quiet Struggle

BY Aditya Shrikrishna On

Nasir overhears several such conversations that must be uncomfortable for an Indian (Coimbatore here) Muslim to live through every day but that’s the nugget the film captures, how his existence is always at peril in a duplicitous world where idioms reveal more about an individual than their symbolic exhibition of secularism, and violence exists even in seemingly inconsequential anecdotes like the one the young salesman narrates about his orange-loving colleague.

Arun Karthick’s ‘Nasir’ Set In Coimbatore Wins NETPAC Award For Best Asian Film In IFFR

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Arun Karthick’s sophomore film Nasir has bagged the NETPAC Award for the best Asian film at Rotterdam 2020. According to screendaily.com, the filmmaker is “ready to fight and go to court to secure the uncensored release of the film in his home country [India]. The story charts the day in the life of a Muslim living in a predominantly Hindu city.”

Coimbatore-Based Filmmaker Arun Karthick’s ‘Nasir’ To Compete For Tiger Award At IFFR 2020

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Nasir, the directorial debut of Coimbatore-based filmmaker Arun Karthick, has been selected to the Hivos Tiger Award competition section of International Film Festival Of Rotterdam which begins on January 23. It is the first Tamil film to compete for the prestigious award which was founded in 1995 to discover and reward up-and-coming international film talent.

Amitabh Bachchan To Be Conferred With The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India’s Highest Honour In Cinema

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Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has been selected as the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the country’s highest award in cinema given by the Central Government. Named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke, the Marathi producer-director who made India’s first full-length feature film Raja Harishchandra, the award is conferred on eminent personalities from Indian cinema for their “outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema”.

‘If One Section Of The Audience Finds ‘Kanaa’ Preachy, The Other Would Find Reflections Of Reality In It’: Arunraja Kamaraj

BY Subha J Rao On

This was also where he saw how the entire village congregated near the fertiliser and pesticide store; it was the fulcrum of all happenings, nanbargalin koodaram, as Arun puts it. “Those in the villages clearly demarcate their lives — they work, they find time for leisure and conversation and they sleep on time. ” All these find a place in his Kanaa, which released last weekend along with four other Tamil films, but has managed to do well at the box office, with the number of scenes almost being doubled.