Aravindan Ingersol

LATEST ARTICLES ( 28 )

• OK Kanmani..Conversations on Time

  

  Spoilers ahead...There are no goons chasing the hero, no conspiracies, no human devils, and no accidents in Maniratnam’s ‘OK Kanmani’. That’s perhaps how most o... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• 2014: Intriguing Ideas...

  

  As 2014 draws to a close, I look at some of the ideas that aroused my curiosity, challenged existing beliefs, and inspired awe this year. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Movies and Social Imagination

  

  “Am all for artistic creativity and freedom of expression and speech, but I wonder whether a day will come when someone from Bollywood will have the guts to mak... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Lost My Childhood...

  

  I could have snuck out of my house to watch adult movies in theatre; I could have learnt to smoke; I could have made more friends; I could have experienced... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, SPORTS

• Linguistic Outlier

  

  I read this piece recently which was widely shared and discussed in social media and provocatively titled - “Why Chennai can't and won't speak Hindi”. The... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Pizza…With Double Trap and Closed Doors

  

  Oh, the Horror... I am ­no fan of horror movies. Not because their job description reads “scaring people”. It’s because they create a sense of conflict between... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Politics of Identity and the Anatomy of Bans

  

  Cartoonist’s impression of the snail’s pace with which the constitution was made. The metaphor is pretty straightforward; too naked to decipher for even a... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• 3 : Much Less Could Have Been a Lot More

  

  Is ‘Bi-polar disorder’ a metaphor for the medical condition the movie is suffering from – a tug of war between a whiff of fresh adolescent romance and a burst o... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Emperor of All Social Maladies

  

  Pop culture and movies generally tend to be easy targets of the bullets of public criticism for having a bad influence on the society and in particular on... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Snapshot: Mayakkam Enna

  

  ­­­­­­­It has always been a romantic idea, in Tamil cinema, to have a group of guys and girls growing up together from childhood; Unaware, as they want us to... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• Muzzling the Heretics

  

  'Another Brick in the Wall' “Look at this picture I had drawn”- she mumbled with great enthusiasm, as if she was Picasso incarnate. She, I am sure, had no idea... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2011 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Deiva Thirumagal: ‘I Am Krishna’, Or So They Say !

  

  'I am Krishna'When you decide to base your entire movie on an English prototype, why not show some grace, and honor your source of inspiration with few seconds... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2011 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Avan Ivan: A Few Thoughts...

  Not many auteur's in Tamil cinema, I believe, can dictate the terms and conditions on the kind of armor that their fans must wear,as a measure of caution... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• An Affair with Chaos

  

  The average human body weighs somewhere between 60-75 kilos. The majority of this mass is made of simple and everyday elements like carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2011 SCIENCE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birds-eye View: 127 Hours

  

  Movies based on true events – harrowing accounts in particular- are most often burdened with onerous responsibilities. Apart from the need to be true to origina... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Political Dishonesty and Social Silence

  

  This is a very “generic” piece which I wrote on the topic- “Crisis of confidence over politicians and the system as it works today”- for a magazine, only to fin... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2011 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• World Cup Selection Woes

  

  If “Kiwi molesting” was an Olympic sport, we could have easily gone past Latvia or Slovenia in the medals table in 2008 summer Olympics, which by any scale woul... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2010 SELF EXPRESSION, SPORTS

• India's Independence: A Long Forgotten Story

  

  At the stroke of midnight, on the 15th of August 2010, India would have completed 63 years of independence. And this 63 year long run, though not a complete... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2010 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Islamic States and the Repercussions of Their Denial

  

  The Middle East, technologically behind the rest of the world and ridden with poverty and Islamic fundamentalism, is perhaps the bloodiest and most volatile... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2010 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Khap Panchayats: Of Honor, Retributive Justice and Murder

  

  How do we percieve a society that endorses and perpetuates killing of young men and women for choosing a partner of their choice or to put it in the other way,... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2010 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY