Vellaiyan, captures contemporary themes of Ed tech, NEET, foreign venture funding and human rights in a delicious rojak. The film hits home on a raw note with a RG Kar type of episode.

Watching Rajni Saar in the Tamizh Diaspora in Brickfields in KL is the ultimate pro max migrant worker moment, as I grew up on his films when I did not understand even a word of Tamizh.

Anirudh’s music is a character in the movie itself. Amit ji sharing screen space with Rajni Saar is the stuff of cinematic dreams. Good to catch the movie on the first evening of release on Amit ji’s birthday eve. It is festival season for the Hindu Diaspora with Navratri and it felt like it for a change, even for a short while.

The film has a high powered cast with Fahad and Rana in tow with the cinematic legends.

I watched Kabali in Delhi in 2016 in dubbing mode. Fortunately my understanding of Tamizh is far better as I can figure out the nuances now after years in Singapore.

Kabaali Daaaa!

ESG or the Financialised Data Variant of Sustainability, and the allocation to low carbon projects was never about climate change per say, it is about risk mitigation, which capitalism is good at, from exactly the same externalities it generates. It is the adaptive nature of capitalism in the long term, and not merely about climate adaptation.

There is no capitalism and value creation without a planet to live on.