Pankaj Tripathi on producing ‘Perfect Family’, dealing with mental health and his plans to direct films

Pankaj Tripathi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Pankaj Tripathi breaks the mould as he turns producer with the recently released comedy-drama series, Perfect Family. There is a Zen-like composure in his voice as we have a telephonic conversation and Pankaj says that he understands what it is like to produce a project. “It is like…

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Kumbakonam’s Nageswaran Temple and ‘Mogamul’: an exchange of ideas between Carnatic and Hindustani music

Nageswaran Temple, known as ‘Kudanthai Keezhkottam,’ at Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh An overwhelming silence prevails in the inner precincts of the Nageswaran Temple, known as ‘Kudanthai Keezhkottam,’ at Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district. Sung in praise by the Saivite saints, the temple, together with the karakoil designed like a chariot, stands…

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‘Left-Handed Girl’ movie review: Shih-Ching Tsou’s restlessly intimate Taipei Story is unruly in all the right ways

Going into Left-Handed Girl with the aftertaste of Anora’s clean sweep still clinging to Sean Baker’s name gave me a brief, involuntary flinch. But thankfully, the dissonance fades quickly. Taiwanese-American filmmaker and long-Baker collaborator, Shih-Ching Tsou’s voice floods her directorial debut with an eye-level empathy that shrugs off Baker’s recent excesses and shields the film…

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