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…
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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) – Neither horror nor comedy, it is a ‘Houseful’ of tragedy
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): A hodgepodge of ingredients that is far from a gastronomic delight
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): Great acting, greater gore but hardly delivers more
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) – The anthology of Hope
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 and its political versus genre context
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) – is far from golden
To tweak Christopher Hitchens quote: Everyone has a story inside them, and in most cases that is where it should stay. Silence, with a story…
Cargo (Review) – High concept amalgamation of mythology, sci-fi and emotions.
Cargo starts with an ‘advertisement from earth’ featuring a Loneliness Detective (Biswapati Sarakr of TVF fame) who pitches himself as a cure for the viewer’s…
V (Movie Review) – An Arid outing with nothing to boast about
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…