R. Madhavan to portray pioneering inventor GD Naidu in upcoming biopic GDN; trailer out!

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The makers of GDN, the upcoming biopic on pioneering Indian inventor G.D. Naidu, have unveiled the film's trailer, offering audiences a first look at R. Madhavan in the lead role. The film is scheduled to release in theatres on July 17. The trailer introduces Madhavan as G.D. Naidu, widely regarded as one of India's most influential inventors and industrialists. It showcases the actor in a markedly different avatar as he steps into the life of the visionary known for his contributions to engineering and innovation. Over the years, R. Madhavan has built a career across multiple film industries, working in Tamil, Hindi and other language films. Known for portraying a wide variety of characters, the actor has consistently balanced commercial entertainers with performance-driven projects. With GDN, Madhavan takes on another biographical role, portraying a real-life figure whose work left a lasting impact on India's technological landscape. The trailer hints at the challenges, ...
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The Virgin Suicides review – Sofia Coppola’s debut rereleased with solemn trigger-warning

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Sunlit suburban calm masks the shocking nature of the story itself: a horrendous tragedy in the guise of a teenage coming-of-age movie

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Sofia Coppola made her feature directing debut with this adaptation of the literary sensation of its day: Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel about five teen sisters in 70s suburban Michigan who take their own lives. Now it is rereleased with a solemn trigger-warning disclaimer at the beginning about certain historic attitudes which might now cause offence; these are unspecified, but appears to mean the entire premise of the film, up there in the title, but which is treated more circumspectly nowadays in the context of new ideas around self-harm and “suicidal ideation”.

This was a movie which mystified as many as it entranced, and it would be honest of me to admit that I didn’t quite understand it back in 2000, and maybe don’t quite now. But I can perhaps appreciate with more clarity its artistry and poise and the confident way Coppola allows her film to be serenely mysterious and almost affectless in its sunlit suburban calm, a reticence which appears to mask the shocking nature of the story itself: a horrendous tragedy in the guise of a teenage coming-of-age movie.

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