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…
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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….
Zakariya’s Halal Love Story (Review)
Zakariya’s new film told through the format of a meta-movie is intrinsically a spiritual successor to Blessy’s Kaazcha (2004) and Rosshan Andrews’ Udayananu Tharam (2005)….
Silence (Tamil/Telugu) Review
To modify Christopher Hitchens’ quote: Everyone harbors a story within them, and in most cases, that is where it should remain. Silence, with a narrative…
Cargo (Review)
Cargo begins with an ‘advertisement from earth’ featuring a Loneliness Detective (Biswapati Sarkar of TVF fame) who pitches himself as a cure for the viewer’s…
V (Movie Review)
V should have had a theatrical release. Not because it is visual spectacle deserving of the silver screen, but because theatres can be breeding ground…
CU Soon review
The lockdown has pushed creative artists, especially filmmakers, to think out-of-the-box. As a result, many imaginative attempts came into limelight. Pandemic thriller, lockdown film.. as…