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CinemaWhen people say Kodi Ramakrishna’s ‘Ammoru’ had better VFX than ‘Adipurush’, they’re saying that it was a more rewarding experience, writes Sankeertana Varma. Visuals from Ammoru (1995) and Adipurush (2023)British actor Brett Goldstein has an interesting podcast called Films To Be Buried With, where he invites famous people and tries to get to know them through the prism of cinema. I sometimes pretend to play along. “What is the first film you remember watching?” is usually his first question. As someone with clinically poor memory, I shouldn't know the answer to this question. But I do. Any other film would have easily slipped through the cracks in my brain, but the memory of my almost-six-year-old self scared out of her wits is too fundamental to be forgotten. The terror of it all is sure to have exaggerated the experience, but the mental image is so potent that all I...