Film and Literature

Paava Kadhaigal’s Thangam

Ramchander compares the short film and the short story it is based on.

4 years ago

Soldiers of Cinema

An excerpt from Reel India: Cinema Off the Beaten Track, a nonfiction book by Namrata Joshi.

4 years ago

Koogai

Anusha visits Koogai, a cinema library in Chennai.

5 years ago

Poomani’s Vekkai & Vetrimaran’s Asuran – From novel to screen

A.Ramasamy presents his take on the adaptation of a Tamil novel into a film.

5 years ago

Scents and Sensibility

Ramchander overhears a conversation between Santiago Gamboa, a novelist from Colombia, and Tran Anh Hùng, a filmmaker from Vietnam.

6 years ago

The Dead by Christian Kacht

Kasper Håkansson writes about a novel that is part historical fiction and part nightmare. What if cinema was a tool…

6 years ago

Christian Kracht: De døde

Kasper Håkansson skriver om en roman, der er delvist historisk fiktion og delvist et mareridt. Hvad hvis film var et…

6 years ago

Reel, Real

Anusha Srinivasan writes about Anand Pandian's Reel World, which is an anthropologist's examination of Tamil cinema.

7 years ago

கரைந்த நிழல்கள்: எளியவர்கள் மீதான கரிசனம்

திரைத்துறையின் விளிம்பில் வாழும் மனிதர்களின் வாழ்வைச் சித்தரிக்கும் அசோகமித்திரனின் கரைந்த நிழல்கள் நாவல் பற்றி அதியனின் பார்வை.

7 years ago

The Shadow People

Athiyan writes about Ashokamitran's novel Karaindha Nizhalgal, which looks at the lives of those on the peripheries of the Tamil…

7 years ago

Brooklyn and Me

Maeve Rafferty writes about Brooklyn the novel and Brooklyn the movie, through the prism of her experience as an Irish…

7 years ago

Chiriyakhana: A Director’s Failure

Lopamudra wonders why the beloved fictitious Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi has never enjoyed a successful transition to cinema.

7 years ago

Chemmeen: The novel and the film

Athiyan writes about his experience of reading a Tamil translation of Chemmeen, the Malayalam novel, and watching Chemmeen, the classic…

7 years ago

செம்மீன்: நாவலும் திரைப்படமும்

மலையாள நாவல் செம்மீனின் தமிழ் மொழிபெயர்ப்பின் வாசிப்பனுபவத்தையும், மலையாள திரைப்படம் செம்மீன் பார்த்த அனுபவத்தையும், அதியன் இக்கட்டுரையில் விவரிக்கிறார்.

7 years ago