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About the Book

Disclaimer: Baradwaj Rangan has no illusions of
grandeur that you are going to base your moviewatching
on his reviews or even agree with his
assessment of movies.
He is a film critic simply because he loves cinema –
discussing, analysing and getting nostalgic about it–
and has no qualms in accepting that, ‘pop culture
doesn’t always welcome the deserving and the worthy
but sometimes the sideshow carnivals that make
modern life such an entertaining merry-go-round.’
Split into six sections – Actors, Hindi Cinema, Directors,
Music, Tamil Cinema, and Reviews – Dispatches from
the Wall Corner is a collection of Baradwaj Rangan’s
best writings, and outstanding in unraveling the
magical world of Indian cinema. For instance, like a
fawning fan before the Superstar’s altar, he convinces
us how Rajinikanth ‘…isn’t a formula that can be bottled
and bartered.’ Or despite an obvious reverence for
masala Hindi films of the Seventies, including Sholay
and Don, he unhesitatingly describes Yash Chopra’s
characters as “pretty people in prettier clothes”.
Straddling the worlds of Tamil and Hindi movies with
great panache, the book is wonderfully honest about
how, for instance, ‘Hindi cinema has learned that
maximum profits can be made from the handfuls of
multiplexes… ,’ while on the other hand, ‘Tamil cinema
continues to tell the stories of the villages.

About the Author

Baradwaj Rangan is a film critic and Senior Deputy Editor at The Hindu. He won the National Award (Swarna Kamal) for Best Film Critic in 2005. His writings on cinema, music, art, books, travel and humour have been published in various magazines like Open, Tehelka, Biblio, Outlook and the Caravan. He has co-written the screenplay for the Tamil rom-com, Kadhal 2 Kalyanam. He teaches a course on cinema at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Baradwaj has contributed to various anthologies, the most recent being an essay in Subramaniyapuram: The Tamil Film in English Translation. His first book, Conversations with Mani Ratnam, was published by Penguin in 2012.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789384030568
  • Publisher: Westland
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • No of Pages: 610
  • ISBN-10: 9384030562
  • Publisher Date: Oct. 2014
  • Language: English

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