The review below may contain some spoilers… There’s a quiet, rhythmic efficiency with which Suresh Triveni approaches his masala movie about a former soldier (Arjun Maurya, played by Anil Kapoor) […]
Radikaa Sarathkumar gives a broad and very entertaining “mass-hero” performance in Thaai Kizhavi. A song calls her “Sungadi selai katti vandha Superman”. She’s a moneylender, a boss-lady, a kinda-sorta “don”. Everyone
If you have seen Aavasavyuham, you know what “a Krishand movie” is like. That film spoke about eco-issues that are all-too-real, but the treatment was surreal. The result was
From making romantic fluff like Tum Bin and Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai, Anubhav Sinha has become the best social commentator of Indian cinema. Message movies, by
The most brutally panned film in the Competition section had to be At the Sea, directed by the Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó and starring Amy Adams. I could not
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The geek in me peeked out for a second when I heard the title of Australian (and Aboriginal) director Warwick Thornton’s new movie. It’s Wolfram… and instantly, my mind went
This has been a relatively short visit to Berlin. At a press screening, a friend asked if there was a movie I was especially bummed about missing out
Srikanth Srinivasan is a film critic and programmer from Bengaluru, India. He has been involved in the selection of films at the Berlin Film Festival, the Berlin Critics
There are times I look into a mirror and I don’t know the person staring back at me. In my mind, I’m still the guy who giggles whenever
R Gowtham’s Members of the Problematic Family (Sikkalaana Kudumbathin Uruppinargal) is structured like a memory piece – though it might be incorrect to use the word “structured”. This
It happens all the time, and yet, when it happens again, it seems amazing. I’m talking about how someone can be very talented and yet relatively under the
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In an interview, Vetri Maaran expressed regret that the climactic action block of his first film, Polladhavan, had been inspired by an action stretch in Apocalypto. So his next movie, Aadukalam
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