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 […]
Berlinale 2026 Diary 2: A Tamil movie, and filmography and bibliography as autobiography Read More
The first time I covered the Berlin International Film Festival was in 2015. I got trolled endlessly about watching Fifty Shades of Grey on an IMAX screen (a world premiere,
There are two couples in this wickedly enjoyable movie. The first pairing is that of Adarsh Gourav (as Maruti) and Shanaya Kapoor (as Avni). So what about the
Raichal plays a woman who lives in Sivakasi. She has a secret. She is not ostracised by others, but she has self-ostracised herself, in the sense that she
If you’ve seen the first two installments, you know what to expect. But a charged, convincing Rani Mukerji, the emphasis on women on both sides of the law,
Abhiraj Minawala’s ‘Mardaani 3’ shows that the female-led cop franchise still has fuel Read More
A family of four is headed by a farmer who is always angry with his older son. And then something happens that’s likely to make the father angrier
A young man in prison thinks back about his life and his love and his obsession with sex. The result is a drama that’s uneven, but never uninteresting.
KJ Surendar’s ‘Maayabimbum’ is an old-school, ‘Sethu’-like romantic melodrama Read More
Sunny Deol plays Father India. Varun Dhawan plays the Army. Diljit Dosanjh plays the Air Force. Ahan Shetty plays the Navy. They unite during the 1971 Indo-Pak war
Anurag Singh’s ‘Border 2’ is a solid, satisfying old-school war film Read More
A terrific Sobhita Dhulipala plays a true-crime journalist who begins to track a serial killer. What works better than the genre parts of the film is the subtext,
Sharan Koppisetty’s ‘Cheekatilo’ is a solid serial-killer drama, narrated with empathy Read More
A dysfunctional family of three men fight it out in a WWE-inspired story that has action and comedy and mass elements and just enough drama to hold it
Adhvaith Nayar’s ‘Chatha Pacha’ is a rousing, joyous action-drama Read More
A Brit-raised Indian spy returns to his homeland for a mission, and all kinds of mayhem breaks out. There are some big laughs, but the jokes get repetitive
Jiiva plays a panchayat head who has to be a proper politician when a wedding and a death threaten to erupt into trouble. The film’s strength is its
