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  I watched  Super Sharnya  (Malayalam, 2022) and thought what a pointless movie it was. There is hardly any substance in it. Then I noticed the name  ThanneerMathan Dinangal  (Malayalam, 2019) mentioned along with it in certain reviews, and learned that both films were made by the same director Girish A D. So I watched  ThanneerMathan Dinangal  too, which is his first movie. I felt it was the other way round though.  TMD  looked as if it was his second movie because it was so much better than the other one and looked like a director's improvement over his first creation. One thing I particularly liked about  TMD  is Ravi Padmanabhan's (acted by Vineeth Sreenivasan) characterisation. Ravi is a fraud but pretends to be a very erudite scholar and a refined man while he works as a teacher in the school. That he is fake is hidden from the viewer until the end. And all through the story, while he behaves predominantly like a cultured and...

  ( Purchase book at Amazon ) ( Watch film on Amazon Prime ) Delta of Venus  is a collection of erotic stories. In the preface of the book, Anais Nin has mentioned that she wrote these stories around 1940 for an ‘anonymous client’ of a book collector she knew. It all started with Henry Miller, her famous friend, who wrote stories for the ‘client’ for money. Gradually, he involved her and their other friends in the project. They all set their wild imaginations free and started writing stories of lust and desire to order. And the stories Anais Nin wrote were what later became ‘Delta of Venus’. It is obvious that these stories are less literature and more porn. Because the anonymous buyer of these stories kept telling her to dump poetry and philosophy and focus more on raw sexual descriptions. It was not an easy task for the writer, though. As a consequence, you can see the unpleasant tension of a fight between poesy and porn throughout the book. The struggle between her poetic i...