Sunny Deol plays a Muslim man whose family is uprooted to Lahore after the Partition. They are allotted a home, but an old lady played by Shabana Azmi […]
Suriya is in fine form as a forty-something bachelor. Mamitha Baiju plays a twenty-something woman who falls for him. We think the ups and downs of this unusual
Venky Atluri’s ‘Vishwanath & Sons’ takes a subversive subject and plays it safe Read More
Vismaya Mohanlal is launched in a story that pits her against a villain who’s a menace to women everywhere. The broad-strokes narrative has a rather clever first half
Jude Anthany Joseph’s ‘Thudakkam’ is a basic but reasonably well-made thriller Read More
Madhavan plays GD Naidu, the Edison of India. His long and complicated legacy is certainly a story worth telling, but this film tries to stuff in too much
Lokesh Kanagaraj plays a low-level criminal named Devadas. Wamiqa Gabbi plays a sex worker named Chandra. They are both sad, troubled souls who are meant for each other.
Arun Matheswaran’s ‘DC’ is a treasure trove of surface-level genre pleasures Read More
There’s a police file that’s supposed to be cursed by the girl whose murder is detailed in it. Any attempt to open this file can cause unnatural deaths
Kiran Abbavaram plays Steven Shankar. He’s an orphan. He wants to become a filmmaker. Sri Gouri Priya plays Nivi, a corporate-sector worker who is depressed and has started
Three engineering students take a room in a rundown hostel with a very strict warden. And then, they run into a ghost. And then, there’s another ghost. The
Charu Wakan’s ‘Maharaja Hostel’ is a lightweight horror-comedy that’s pleasantly nuts Read More
By now, everyone knows that the film is a remake of the 2023 Balayya-starrer ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’. That was a hero-worship vehicle and a female-empowerment story. H Vinoth adds
H Vinoth’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ says goodbye to Vijay the star and welcomes Vijay the saviour Read More
The film revolves around a younger couple, and a house that’s become a sort of retirement community for a group of elderly people who long for nothing more
Pari Elavazhagan is a Telugu youth with a caste-obsessed mother, and Ramya Ranganathan plays the “liberated” Anglo-Indian he falls for. A few laughs apart, the film is all
Pari Elavazhagan’s ‘Anbe Diana’ is an inter-culture romance that’s undone by messy writing Read More
Akhil Akkineni shows he can be a mainstream leading man. He plays the title character, an orphan who grows up to be a big part of the family
