Baradwaj Rangan

1 month ago | baradwajrangan.wordpress.com | Baradwaj Rangan

I watched The Brutalist on an IMAX screen, and I’m yet to recover from the experience. Experience. That’s the word for it. With most films, it’s easy to say… “I liked it”, or “the film did not work for me”. The Brutalist had parts I loved, parts that left me scratching my head, and a few minutes, early on, it even had parts that made me nod off for a bit (I hadn’t slept very well the previous night). But overall, it’s the kind of vast, kaleidoscopic thing you rarely see anymore.

1 month ago | galattaplus.com | Baradwaj Rangan

The film can be seen as a companion piece to ‘Luck By Chance’. It follows a bunch of ordinary folks whose lives revolve around cinema. They make movies, and the movies make them. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Nasir (Adarsh Gourav) is a wedding videographer in the sleepy town of Malegaon, which looks and feels like a Muslim neighbourhood of Malgudi. One evening, he takes the girl he loves to a movie starring Bruce Lee. She’s more practical: she says the star died early.

1 month ago | galattaplus.com | Baradwaj Rangan

A father searches for his kidnapped daughter. But along with this race-against-time thriller, we also get a psychological arc about a certain kind of man. It all comes together very well. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. The trailers have told us that Crazxy is about a father and his kidnapped daughter and ransom money.

2 months ago | galattaplus.com | Baradwaj Rangan

This Gen-Z love story does better with the “com” portions than the “rom” portions, which needed to dig deeper. But overall, it keeps you smiling. The rest of this review contains spoilers. In Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam (NEEK), Dhanush’s nephew Pavish plays someone like his uncle, the director of this lightweight rom-com. His character’s name is Prabhu, just like Dhanush’s given name is Venkatesh Prabhu. Like Dhanush in real life, Prabhu wants to become a chef.

2 months ago | galattaplus.com | Baradwaj Rangan

This is a morality tale about the price of success, told with tons of humour and emotion. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll leave on a high. The rest of this review contains spoilers. And the award for the most misleading trailer of 2025 goes to… DRAGON! You look at the trailer and see a girl saying bad boys are cool. You see a guy thinking it’s cool to have 48 arrears. You see this guy being cool with a cigarette, as though he’s invented a move to rival Rajinikanth’s style with cigarettes.