The Great Indian Kapil Show to Crew: What To Watch This Weekend ( Photo Credit – Instagram )
The month of March is filled with many exciting and big releases. The audience is treated with all kinds of content in every genre – comedy, thriller, romance and much more. Kapil Sharma is now all set to rule the Ott world with The Great Indian Kapil Show! On the other hand, the audience will be entertained with love and laughter with Premalu.
It’s a long weekend due to the Good Friday holiday, so even theatrical releases this week are intriguing. Crew ft Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan & Kriti Sanon is finally making its way! If you are not updated with what’s releasing this week, do not worry. We have made a list of titles that will drop on streaming platforms, as well as movies that will rule the big screen this weekend.
Here’s...
The month of March is filled with many exciting and big releases. The audience is treated with all kinds of content in every genre – comedy, thriller, romance and much more. Kapil Sharma is now all set to rule the Ott world with The Great Indian Kapil Show! On the other hand, the audience will be entertained with love and laughter with Premalu.
It’s a long weekend due to the Good Friday holiday, so even theatrical releases this week are intriguing. Crew ft Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan & Kriti Sanon is finally making its way! If you are not updated with what’s releasing this week, do not worry. We have made a list of titles that will drop on streaming platforms, as well as movies that will rule the big screen this weekend.
Here’s...
- 3/28/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
Prime Video’s Latest Tamil Original Series: Inspector Rishi Release Date, Teaser & More – Here’s Everything We Know About The Upcoming Series! ( Photo Credit – Instagram )
Get ready to be swept off your feet as Prime Video, the ultimate streaming sensation, dazzles audiences with its freshest Tamil masterpiece, “Inspector Rishi.” Crafted by the visionary Nandhini Js, this pulse-pounding decalogy promises an electrifying narrative brimming with suspense and supernatural flair. Led by the charismatic Naveen Chandra and a stellar ensemble, “Inspector Rishi” is poised to plunge viewers headfirst into the enigmatic world of Inspector Rishi Nandhan.
Inspector Rishi Cast & Crew
The ensemble cast of “Inspector Rishi” shines with a constellation of talent, led by the dynamic Naveen Chandra. Alongside him, luminaries like Sunainaa Yella, Srikrishna Dayal, Kanna Ravi, Malini Jeevarathnam, Kumaravel, and Harini Sundararajan inject their own individual spark into the series. With Nandhini Js at the helm, this collective is primed...
Get ready to be swept off your feet as Prime Video, the ultimate streaming sensation, dazzles audiences with its freshest Tamil masterpiece, “Inspector Rishi.” Crafted by the visionary Nandhini Js, this pulse-pounding decalogy promises an electrifying narrative brimming with suspense and supernatural flair. Led by the charismatic Naveen Chandra and a stellar ensemble, “Inspector Rishi” is poised to plunge viewers headfirst into the enigmatic world of Inspector Rishi Nandhan.
Inspector Rishi Cast & Crew
The ensemble cast of “Inspector Rishi” shines with a constellation of talent, led by the dynamic Naveen Chandra. Alongside him, luminaries like Sunainaa Yella, Srikrishna Dayal, Kanna Ravi, Malini Jeevarathnam, Kumaravel, and Harini Sundararajan inject their own individual spark into the series. With Nandhini Js at the helm, this collective is primed...
- 3/16/2024
- by Hari P N
- KoiMoi
MusicThe Casteless Collective has come out with two songs on same-sex relationships and they're a must watch.Tnm StaffThe Casteless Collective, which was launched by director Pa Ranjith, has released two 'lesbian' gaana songs that speak of same-sex love and standing up against social norms. Pa Ranjith is also the producer of the documentary film Ladies and Gentlewomen, directed by Malini Jeevarathnam. The film was screened at Prasad Labs, Chennai, on Sunday and members of the Casteless Collective also performed at the event. The songs, laced with humour, deliver some hard truths. Sample this: "You have an iPhone in your hands, but the script in your brain is old" or "You put up a Facebook status about how women are precious but think your sister is a slave". They question the practice of killing women and deeming it as "culture". Watch: The lyrics take a dig at the hypocrisy of society, so entrenched in caste and religious violence, that it cannot accept love between two women. The songs also speak of lesbian suicides. Speaking to The News Minute in an earlier interview, Malini had said that she had made the film for parents of lesbian women rather than lesbian women themselves – so there could be an understanding about same-sex relationships among them. She also spoke about how same-sex relationships have been denigrated in popular culture, especially cinema. The young filmmaker, who came out eight years ago, worked as Pa Ranjith's assistant director and was struggling to get the film funded when the Kabali director offered to produce it himself. Watch:...
- 1/24/2018
- by Editor
- The News Minute
InterviewThe 28-year-old filmmaker's documentary has been produced by Pa Ranjith. Sowmya RajendranEight years ago, Malini Jeevarathnam would make jokes about those who identified as gay or transgender. This, she says, was before she confronted the truth - that she was queer. "I used to be attracted to women while growing up, but I never acknowledged it," says the 28-year-old filmmaker whose Tamil documentary Ladies and Gentlewomen is releasing on January 21 in Chennai. Produced by Pa Ranjith's Neelam Productions, Malini says her documentary is about the untold stories of the Lgbtq community. Commenting on the teaser of the film which is high on humour, Malini says, "People don't want to see films with serious content. If we say 'lesbian', people imagine women sitting alone in dark rooms or walking about, looking psychotic. I wanted to bring out the fact that same sex relationships can be jolly and are to be celebrated." Malini notes that her film talks about the problems the Lgbtq community faces and does confront serious issues. However, the point of the teaser, she says, was to "make people feel guilty without hurting them" - by reminding them that they haven't allowed these narratives to be told all these years. Malini goes on to add, "The film has been officially selected for screening at seven international film festivals and has won the Best Documentary award in three festivals. It has been recognised as a film that gives voice to lesbian women's rights." Malini points out that the Lgbtq community is invisible even among the marginalised in society: "If a Dalit person has a problem or if a woman undergoes some kind of violence, it's still possible for them to seek out others like them for help or consolation. But for a lesbian woman, a transgender person or anyone from the Lgbtq community, it's so difficult for us to meet someone like us. We have to leave where we live, get into activism and so on. But it's possible that there was someone like me who died in the next street in my village because she was lesbian and I wouldn't have even come to know of it. Coming out is still so difficult." Hailing from Paramakudi (Kamal Haasan's land, she quips), Malini says it's a misconception that it's only city people who can be openly gay. She has travelled across Tamil Nadu for her film and says that in small towns and rural areas, same sex attraction is commonly expressed. "I have seen lesbian women even in my schooldays in Ramanathapuram district. I used to make fun of gay and transgender people until eight years ago. But it was only after I came to terms with my own identity that I was able to engage with this. It's possible that there are people in our own family who are gay - it's nothing new," says Malini. She goes on to say that when she came out to her friends and family, they too opened up to her about others they knew who were gay and their own sexuality. A relative who comes from a rural area, Malini says, was very supportive of her because he had a gay friend who'd died. However, she has chosen not to show any lesbian women (even with blurred faces) other than a married couple from Kolkata in her film. "I could have taken a hidden camera and interviewed ten women who had their faces covered, asked them about their state of mind. I could have told them this is a big film that will go for film festivals. But if I had done that and if tomorrow, because of the woman's voice or her clothes or some parts of the story she tells, her identity is revealed, she could be ostracised and even murdered. It's enough that they speak when they have come out," says Malini. Malini shares that many women use fake profiles on social media because, ironically, that's the only way they can be honest about who they are and write about what they feel. Many of them have also reached out to her to discuss their problems and feelings. Therefore, instead of first person narratives, Ladies and Gentlewomen has stories gathered from communities, about same sex love and relationships. The point of the film, Malini says, is not to out anyone without their consent but to encourage people to come out themselves. She further says that she's made a choice not to include the derogatory and humiliating things people say about the Lgbtq community because she wants to be positive in her approach. "This is not a film for Lgbtq people as such, it is for their parents," says Malini. "I want them to understand that this is something natural. So I didn't see the need to include anything derogatory to make it controversial." Commenting on how Tamil cinema has depicted Lgbtq communities over the years, Malini says that it is humiliating and putting down others which has passed off as comedy in general. "Remarking on someone's physical appearance, disability, colour or sexuality has been shown as funny all these years," says Malini. "This is the reason why we wanted to release the movie in Vadapalani and not a Russian Cultural Center. We want people to watch the film and know that because of how they've written these scenes, there are many who have been led to suicide." Initially, Malini had thought the film could be crowd-funded. However, when Pa Ranjith, with whom she has worked as Assistant Director in Madras, came to know about the film, he offered to produce it. "He is someone who gives voice to the oppressed, so it's only someone like him who can understand the pain of another who's oppressed," she says. "I was heartbroken when I could raise only Rs 10,000 to 20,000 through crowd-funding. I asked him if he could arrange for a camera. He told me - what camera? Tell me how much it will cost to produce the whole film, I will produce it." Malini says she was touched by how little the Kabali director worried about his image, given that he was already ruffling feathers by voicing his views against caste: "He told me that the voice against oppression is one and the same." The documentary will premiere at Prasad Labs theatre, Chennai, on January 21 at 5.30 pm. Members from Ranjith's Caseteless Collective will also perform a song at the event - as a 'Genderless Collective', Malini says.
- 1/18/2018
- by Editor
- The News Minute
DocumentaryProduced by Neelam Productions, the documentary directed by Malini Jeevarathnam explores body politics and same sex relationships.Tnm StaffFacebook/Malini JeevarathnamDirector Pa Ranjith’s Neelam Productions has launched the trailer of their upcoming documentary, Ladies and Gentlewomen. Directed by Malini Jeevarathnam, the documentary explores body politics and the stigma that is usually associated with it as well as Lgbtq issues. The director, in a 2017 interview with Manam Magazine shared that she has been working on the documentary for over three years and completed filming it in January 2017. In the interview, Malini talks about her research journey for her documentary where she closely studied Lgbtq persons, their life, love and suicides. On the documentary, she added that she does not consider it as a project but as an expression of feelings, emotions and as a medium to help prevent Lgbtq suicides. “In the year 2016 alone, 17 gay youngsters committed suicide in Chennai,” she said. The Ladies and Gentlewomen trailer is presented in the form of voiceovers - one male and another female - with visuals that show the credits and awards won by the film. A female voice asks her friend, “Buddy, shall I tell you a story?” and goes on to narrate the start of a usual king-meets-queen story. When her male friend says “I’ve heard 1000 such stories,” she goes on to narrate another where a queen meets another queen. Her companion is surprised and says that he hasn’t heard a story like this ever. That's when the narrator adds with a smirk, “How could you have heard unless we tell it or you let us tell it?” The sound of the ‘parai’ that plays in mono, becomes stereo when the word ‘gentlemen’ becomes ‘gentlewomen’ in the trailer, possibly signifying the idea of giving voices to marginalised narratives. Towards the end, you have the male voice inferring from the documentary’s English name that this might be an English film. To this, his female companion says that it is a Tamil film after all. Writer Kutty Revathy and Damayanthi have contributed lyrics for two important songs that play in the documentary. Ladies and Gentlewomen was presented at several award ceremonies and has gained lots of recognition so far. The documentary will premiere at Prasad Theatre in Saligramam, Chennai, on January 21 at 5.30 pm. Watch the trailer here:...
- 1/17/2018
- by Editor
- The News Minute
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