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
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
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
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
Karthi plays the sort of double role that was popular in the MGR days. One character is corrupt, and the other one becomes his conscience-cum-alter ego. The result
