For the umpteenth time, it was Nandanam again on TV. Was wondering why this flick made me sit through the whole almost-three hours looking at celluloid Krishna yet again. For those who continue to love the flick, here’s one little piece I scribbled years ago when the film was doing the rounds in Kerala’s theatres. I think I still love what I saw and thought then. Krishna, on screen The ‘sambhavami yuge yuge’ mantra is alive and kicking, at least for tinsel town’s dream merchants. Krishna on screen has something very fascinating about him. There used to be a time when men and women thronged thatched ‘cinema talkies’ to see the Lord on screen. Some things never change. The on-screen Krishna aura still remains. He isn’t just god for the Indian. He is one among them, naughty and human, with a dash of divinity around him. Film makers have all through the years been overawed by this character, easy to conceive, but yet complex to be contained in a screen drama. For me, personally, three Kr
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