Baradwaj Rangan

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Baradwaj RanganIndiaReaders Write In #1178: An Exomoon and How to Name It By V Vijaysree Recently, I reviewed Roberta Kwok’s book Lost in Curiosity and ran into something that made me chortle: the name an astronomer gave a possible exomoon.

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Baradwaj RanganIndiaBriefly Reviewed – Balaji Mohan’s ‘Nayyi Navelli’ (Netflix) Mohini (Yami Gautam) is the most perfect daughter-in-law in the Awasthi clan – and given the number of people in this joint family, it’s really a clan.

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Baradwaj RanganIndiaReaders Write In #1177: Nayyi Navelli: A film that is in equal parts stunning and frustrating, struggling to come together as a satisfying whole By Siddharth Varada Spoilers ahead … Nayyi Navelli, directed by Balaji Mohan, is the story of Mohini, a newly wed bride, who has been married into the Mohini household and is now suspected by the…

10.19

Baradwaj RanganIndiaInterview: Anl Arasu, the first recipient of the National Film Award for Best Stunt Choreography for a Tamil film, ‘Maharaja’ For more, subscribe to GALATTA PLUS: https://tinyurl.com/ysbkyrh Copyright ©2026 GALATTA.

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Baradwaj RanganIndiaReaders Write In #1176: Prahaar: A moving drama surrounding the trial that led to Kasab’s sentencing for the 2008 Mumbai blasts By Siddharth Varada Spoilers ahead … Prahaar, directed by Avinash Arun, primarily revolves around the trial that ultimately led to Ajmal Kasab’s sentencing for the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai.

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo