kaatchippizhai

A group of writers and social scientists — many of them based in Madurai — have launched a full-fledged research journal, ‘Kaatchi Pizhai’ (Refractive Error) in Tamil. The journal is dedicated to discuss, debate, criticise and review films and everything related to films. cinema was a theoretically challenging subject, a very complex area of study which needed to be explored more. “There is a crisis of academic criticism as we do not have separate disciplines such as cultural studies or film studies as in the West, and even if it is there, it is in a nascent stage.”