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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at the political class while alluding to ‘Naatu Naatu’ — a song from S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR — becoming the first song from an Asian movie to win Best Original Song at the 80th Golden Globe Awards. In the illustration, a politician is telling a bewildered reporter, “Acting, direction, drama, dialogue, screenplay, which of these (skills) is not required in politics! But there is no award for us.”
Manjul gives his take on the controversy over director Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, a film about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits at the height of the insurgency in the valley, making it to the Oscars Reminders List.
Nala Ponnappa gives his take on how Naatu Naatu‘s win at the Golden Globe Awards will open the doors for opportunists to cash in on its popularity.
R. Prasad draws on tensions between the M.K. Stalin-led DMK government and Governor R.N. Ravi in Tamil Nadu, suggesting that the Governor should have consulted the ‘Chera Governor’ — a reference to Chera dynasty rule when Tamil Nadu and Kerala were part of the same cultural region known as ‘Tamilakam’.
Sunil Agarwal, highlighting the underlying class biases in society, albeit with humour, gives his take on the issues a Business Class passenger would face if relegated to ‘Premium Economy’ class on an airplane.