The Godfather

Vijay Narayanan on October 21st, 2011

[To Gokul] In his review of The Godfather, Roger Ebert explains why we are enamored of the movie’s characters: We tend to identify with Don Corleone’s family not because we dig gang wars, but because we have been with them from the beginning, watching them wait for battle while sitting at the kitchen table and eating [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 29th, 2008

A must watch movie. Highly commendable. It is unfortunate that many people who have watched this movie consider it an imperfect remake of Cheran’s epic Thavamaai Thavamirundhu. In my opinion, that is the sort of preconception, borne of an urge to describe new things in the light of those familiar to us that can – and [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 1st, 2008

I never thought there would come a day when I would say this. I think I like Yves Robert’s Le Chateau de ma Mere (My Mother’s Castle) better than Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather!

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