Baradwaj Rangan: latest Asian cinema stories

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Baradwaj RanganIndiaInterview: Nikkhil Advani, Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf, Pratibha Ranta, Gurfateh Pirzada (‘The Revolutionaries’) For more, subscribe to GALATTA PLUS: https://tinyurl.com/ysbkyrh Copyright ©2026 GALATTA.

September 5

Baradwaj RanganIndiaVenu Gopal Reddy’s ‘Romanchakam’ offers plenty of laughs but the emotions don’t work Sumanth Prabhas and Ananthika Sanilkumar play Anvesh and Mythili. They meet on a dating app and fall in love. Or do they? The film tries to capture the whimsical peculiarities and insecurities of GenZ, but the romance is

September 5

Baradwaj RanganIndiaInterview: ‘Vikkals’ Vikram (‘Vikkals of Vikram’) For more, subscribe to GALATTA PLUS: https://tinyurl.com/ysbkyrh Copyright ©2026 GALATTA.

September 5

Baradwaj RanganIndiaMariyappan Chinna’s ‘Immortal’ is a just-about-okayish thriller about a man who’s trapped by an… “immortal” GV Prakash is well-cast as Magi, a young and vulnerable man who moves into a flat that’s occupied by Sindhu, played by Kayadu Lohar. Slowly, Magi realises that Sindhu has her secrets and he needs to escape. The film has

September 4

Baradwaj RanganIndiaHanuman Ansh

September 4

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。