Some spoilers below – you have been cautioned. In one of the scenes in Paava Kadhaigal’s episode ‘Or Iravu’ directed by Vetrimaaran, where Prakash Raj and Sai Pallavi are seated...
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (Movie review)
Watch the movie on (with English subtitles). Putham Pudhu Kaalai offers the rare chance of watching four, what they used to call, A-Center Tamil films (and one B-Center Tamil film)...
Continue reading...Ishq (Movie review) – Malayalam, Anuraj Manohar
Ishq is perhaps the most infuriating movie I have seen in quite a while. And this is mainly because the film topples, on its head, 2 well-known movie tropes –...
Continue reading...2.0 (Tamil) – Director: Shankar
Before you begin, my , if you have not read it. More than anything else, Shankar’s 2.0 is a shining statement about the evolution of non-cricket sports in India. Not...
Continue reading...Thupparivaalan (Movie review), Tamil – Mysskin
There is an incredibly choreographed fight sequence between Vishal and the Chennai-Chinese underlings at the Red Dragon Chinese restaurant in Thupparivaalan. During this extended, flamboyant sequence, at one point, Vishal...
Continue reading...Arjun Reddy (Movie review), Telugu – Sandeep Reddy Vanga
An early scene in Arjun Reddy categorically portends to what the man is all about. In what is an episode that Arjun and his friend Shiva briefly discuss much later...
Continue reading...Onaiyum Aatukuttiyum (Movie review), Director: Mysskin
That Mysskin has reached auteur level was evident even in his earlier films, but he hammers it beyond doubt in Onaiyum Aatukuttiyum! This is a film that has every one...
Continue reading...Chennai Express (Movie review), Rohit Shetty
To start with, I wasn’t sure if I should watch Chennai Express as a South Indian (Tamilian, to be precise) or as an Indian who happens to be from the...
Continue reading...Mientras Duermes (Movie review – Spanish), Director: Jaume Balagueró
[Rec] director Jaume Balagueró’s 2011 film Mientras Duermes truly lives up to the earlier blockbuster, but in vastly different ways. I recalled Indian (Tamil, to be specific) films like Vaali...
Continue reading...Hideaways (Movie review) – Director: Agnès Merlet
What do you get when you cross the sensibilities of Mani Ratnam’s Geetanjali (Idhayathai Thirudaathey, in Tamil), the crux of Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and the relationships in Audrey Niffenegger’s book The...
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