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 […]
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
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
This is a blunt movie. Barring a few scenes, the delicacy we associate with Halitha’s work is missing. Minmini opens in a boarding school in Ooty. A teacher
The budget limitation is sometimes a spoilsport, but at every point, you can see the effort of trying something new. Despite the over-emphasis at times, the film works.
The broad arc of the story is very generic: a drama of betrayal and revenge. But what makes the film feel fresh is the emphasis on family and
The film stars a bunch of teenagers and Yogi Babu. It starts off like a ghost story and undergoes a genre shift, but the writing needed to be
The film stars Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Bobby Simha. The screenplay is flat, and we are forced to endure generic lectures about corruption. In 1987, in Nayakan,
The film stars Vijay Sethupathi, Anurag Kashyap, Natty Subramanian, Mamta Mohandas, Abhirami. The screenplay is so mechanically constructed that the emotional impact is muted. After Kurangu Bommai
Among the huge star cast, Amitabh Bachchan stands out. The sluggish pre-interval portions are somewhat redeemed by an action-packed second half. From his first film, Nag Ashwin
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The film stars Soori, Sasikumar, Unni Mukundan. The writing is so generic that almost nothing stays in mind Early on in Garudan, set in the district of Theni,
The film also stars Lal, Geetha Kailasam, Preity Mukhundhan and Aaditi Pohankar. It is a prickly, thorns-and-all life story of a man who wants to become a star
