Venkat Prabhu’s ‘The Greatest of All Time’, starring Vijay, is a middling thriller with many high moments
One way to view G.O.A.T. is as a celebration of the star. That part works. But those of us who want more are left wanting. The very first […]
Vivek Athreya’s ‘Saripodhaa Sanivaaram’, with Nani, SJ Suryah, and Priyanka Arul Mohan, is a well-written masala movie
One thing we could have used is some more energy in the staging. Still, the film proves that Vivek Athreya is one of the most unique voices out
Prateek Prajosh’s ‘Chilli Chicken’, now on Prime Video, is a solid drama about Northeasterners in Bengaluru
The impressive thing is that a number of messages about assimilation and discrimination are put across without making it seem like a Message Movie. There are hardly any
Despite some “Tamil-film compromises”, Mari Selvaraj’s ‘Vaazhai’ is a work of terrifying cinematic beauty
The buildup to the climax is simply extraordinary. This is one of the best passages of cinema I have seen in recent times. There’s a remarkable “short story”
PS Vinothraj follows up ‘Pebbles’ with ‘Kottukkaali’, another excellent ‘road movie’ which world-premiered at the Forum section of the Berlinale
The film stars Soori and Anna Ben. Again, the ‘story’ is but an excuse to mount a wonderful set of characters and geographies and troubling traditions. To the
Karthik Subbaraj: It’s important for me to shoot a film with a fully finished script
The ‘Jigarthanda Double X’ filmmaker on his writing process, working with big stars, and picking the right actors for his scripts. Edited excerpts: Writing based on a
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Anna Ben: Working in Kottukkaali was a big learning experience for me
The Malayalam actor, known for ‘Helen’, ‘Kumbalangi Nights’, and ‘Kalki’, on the minimal approach to her character in ‘Kottukkaali’, interacting with the locals, and more. Edited excerpts:
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Namrata Rao’s ‘Angry Young Men’, on Prime Video, is an easy watch, a nostalgic look at the Salim-Javed story, but there’s not much real insight
The best parts are the ones where they talk about their process… It’s interesting to know that Salim usually came up with the storylines, Javed’s strength was dialogue,
We cannot do tentpole films in India without big stars: Siddharth Anand
The War, Pathaan, and Fighter director on why big-budget franchises won’t work in India with character actors unlike in Hollywood, why stars need to maintain their enigma, and
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Amar Kaushik’s entertaining ‘Stree 2’ gives us exactly what we go in for: a silly ghost story with more laughs than scares
The chief pleasure of the ‘Stree’ films is watching Rajkummar Rao, Aparshakti Khurana, Pankaj Tripathi, and the delightful Abhishek Banerjee. Whoever thought of throwing in these four together
Pa. Ranjith’s ‘Thangalaan’, starring Vikram, has a number of interesting threads, but they don’t come together and the film doesn’t connect emotionally
For Vikram, who plays Thangalaan, the film is a triumph. But how can a single performance save a movie? ‘Thangalaan’ places so much on Vikram’s shoulders that it
Suman Kumar’s ‘Raghu Thatha’, with Keerthy Suresh, is a sweet, watchable film that struggles to live up to its potential
The minor comic bits are okay. But the major part of the narrative struggles to maintain a tone that can make the characters seem convincing even as the