In our Slack workspace, around this time last year, a colleague posted that he liked reading a book called Shoe Dog, written by Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight, about the humble beginnings of Nike. I searched for it on Amazon, and when I was about to order the book, the books…

Amid Bollywood’s downtime and boycott trends on social media, Ayan Mukerji’s ambitious and high-budget movie Brahmastra was released last week. This has been in the making for the past couple of years. The announcement came when I was a minor. The movie took off while I was an undergraduate and…

I’ve visited Tamil Nadu twice before but had been to Chennai both times (visited Mahabalipuram too). From my childhood, whenever I hear someone visiting Tirumala, they often see either Kanchi or Kalahasti. So, Kanchi has been on my go-to list for a long time. When I started working, my thoughts…

August is one of the months this year where I didn’t have plans of doing anything — be it watching movies, meeting people or any activity except one — a trip to Tiruvannamalai. But it turned out to be one of the best months for me regarding movies I watched…

I was roaming around the streets of Indira Nagar and visiting places I’d never been to at the beginning of the month. I was in Bengaluru for a week to explore the city while working from a hostel. I was with my colleague, Sravan, and we walked a couple of…

From the time Vivek Athreya’s third feature film, Ante Sundariniki, was announced, I was waiting for it to be released so that I could get the high emotion again after Brochevarevaru Ra. …

Like many fans of Kamal Haasan, I was waiting for him to score a blockbuster. The kind of experiments he did and the audience’s response over these years made me fall in love with this true artist. …

June was one of the months where I completed the pending things, started working on new things, met a lot of people, ate at many new places, and I am pretty much satisfied with the month. I read books, completed a series, watched many movies (both in cinema halls and…

I had a long list of movies suggested by my friends from the previous months. I thought of watching them, talking to my friends, and writing about them here in this blog post. But it didn’t happen. I watched only four movies this month, out of which I completed two…