Aditya Shrikrishna

Writer. Film Critic. Curator/Programmer.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

I wrote about Karthik Subbaraj's DOROTHY, its proximity to the Madurai gangster genre, the queerphobic online backlash and that much discussed ending. Link in reply.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Here: https://t.co/rb8VLa3DIt

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Love amidst flux, life amidst migration in Yashasvi Juyal’s debut feature. Reviewed The Ink Stained Hand and The Missing Thumb. Link in reply.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@ChiniZyaada @Ajumplakdibampa @Normal0sborn @HurryHurrah I think people are seeing what they want to see lol

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Iravu Nilavu for listening, Something Something for watching

[exit30b @exit30b]

since am seeing contradicting tweets all the time we, all Tamil music listening people, should come together and decide which is the best song in ANJALI (1990).

[Greeshma Kuthar @jeegujja]

It's a fact that the DMK govt shielded Veeramani. It is also a fact that the TVK govt is now protecting their Kallakuruchi MLA. Meanwhile men from both parties are fighting over which party should get first prize as saviours. Women will always remain objects in TN.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Wow, yes pls.

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

This @Equatormag reading group is going to be 🔥.

Join Karl Ove Knausgård, Rachel Kushner, Pankaj Mishra, Vinson Cunningham, Brenda Lozano, Francisco Goldman, Natasha Wimmer, and others as we grapple with Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece.

Book your spot: https://t.co/WdxuJpNWdy

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Count me in as a Painkili fan. I love the two lead performances in it, two tough acts to pull off. Suspect the love for the film will only grow with time.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

I quite liked Painkili. Light on its feet and the various detours are mostly delightful. It is so unserious, its only charm, which is why the last twenty five minutes it really goes awry when it forgets what kind of film it is.

[Rosie Roti @supriyan]

You will see this crop up in more and more Anglophone Hindutva discourse and creep into broader Anglo thinking because it feels jokey and shares its casual snobbery with the liberal Anglo outlook. It is a weasel word and is being weaponised.

[Rosie Roti @supriyan]

I trust it's clear that the idea of the "dehat" as an other to the urbane, socially unmarked, prosperity gospel-led India is an upper-caste right-wing project. It is meant to associate marginalised caste life with the unsalvageable village and undermine its protections.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Scene is fantastic, brimming with ideas. Jithu Madhavan continues his exploration into a distinctly receptive masculinity. And the cast, especially Naslen, is stellar. Review:

https://t.co/Xt41A7xonc

[Film Critics Guild @theFCGofficial]

Scene scores 7.6/10 on FCGR.

Scene (2026) is a Tamil-language comedy action film directed by Jithu Madhavan and stars Suriya, Nazriya Nazim, Naslen, Lal, Anandaraj, Raj Priyan, Gajaraj, Suresh Mathiyalagan, Tovino Thomas and Jyothika.

Link to the reviews in thread below.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@dagalti @equanimus everything about it, not just music. forget the concept of just walking, but even the shot, it's not even clean or in focus.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@equanimus @dagalti neenga romba I think pandreenga. Vera onnume illa, ivaladhan eduthurpaanga, and then nobody wanted this unfinished stuff out but someone desperate enough has got it out.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@equanimus Not a fan of the shoddy technical work in his films since Asuran (even VC actually), Viduthalai suffered from it, just part 1 and the reshoots, part 2 was an overkill. In those terms, seems like a regression of many years for a famed filmmaker.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Looks like we have a long way to go before getting old Vetri back. Hopeless.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

That Vetrimaaran masterclass is fantastic but so glad he opened up about the issues with Viduthalai, how so much of it is labored and it would have been truer as the smaller film as originally imagined. I hope part 2 gets done soon, frees him and we get the old Vetri back.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@equanimus It is so terrible and sad to see Vetri has been reduced to this. No hope.

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@Dextertrix2698 Can click and read the review :)

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

My favorite film reference in Scene is Panchathanthiram

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Scene is fantastic, brimming with ideas. Jithu Madhavan continues his exploration into a distinctly receptive masculinity. And the cast, especially Naslen, is stellar. Review:

https://t.co/Xt41A7xonc

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

@exit30b Oh glad you liked Rose of Nevada! Such a gorgeous gem if you persist with it. And darkly funny as well.