Maara (Review) – A canvas filled with deft strokes
What would happen if a film were adapted into a painting? “A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness and some fantasy” goes a famous…
Articles by Sandeep Padhi
Paava Kadhaigal (Review)
The anthology kicks off with Sudha Kongara’s 3rd release in the lockdown and like her previous outings (the short in Putham Pudhu Kaalai and the…
Middle Class Melodies – Satisfying Sequence of the middle-class notes
Middle Class Melodies (MCM) is true to its name in every sense, it takes the single notes from different aspects of the middle-class life and…
Mookuthi Amman (Review)
Mookuthi Aman has all the crackers for a Diwali celebration – A Saami Padam, family entertainer with an entertaining family at the centre, A lady Superstar…
LUDO (Review): Mildly Chaotic but wildly fun Gameplay
Ludo begins with a dialogue by Anurag Basu (playing a mythical figure) that goes “If you arrive before time, there is no one to appreciate…
Soorarai Pottru (Review) – Splendid soar, slick touch down
Like the protagonist’s business venture, the movie takes its time to take off but soars majestically. Coming immediately after another story of an entrepreneur’s rise…
Gatham (Review) – Virtuosity in Deception
If you have watched the recent Anushka disaster, Nishabdam then Gatham begins with the hint of a bad déjà vu. Thriller set in the US,…
Laxmii (Review)
The key factor that worked for the Kanchana movies in Tamil was that a guy afraid of the dark, ghosts and pretty much everything after…
Miss India (Review) – This house of tea is far from sublime
½ a litre of discarded Robin Sharma draft, 3 teaspoons of Philip Kotler management lectures and a leaf taken from the tradition and orthodoxy textbook…
Bheemasena Nalamaharaja (Review)
Daane Daane pe likha hai khane waale ka naam (each grain of rice has the consumer’s name ingrained) goes the famous saying. The thesis of…
Mirzapur 2 (Review)
When the season 1 becomes monstrous hit across the country, it weighs on the makers to come up with a worthy season 2. This weight…
Putham Puthu Kaalai (Review)
In the times of a pandemic outdoors and an epidemic on prime time indoors, this anthology brings in two key missing elements: hope and candour….