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 film is an impressionistic series of scenes that showcase the restlessness, the powerlessness, the confusion of an unprivileged man in a changing city. In Ram Gopal Varma’s
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 works very well until the interval point, but the big twist is defused soon after. The second half suffers from pacing issues. But all said, this
The number of plot threads may make the film sound like some sort of anthology, but it’s more like a series of slow-burning fuses leading to an existential
The film stars Vicky Kaushal, Triptii Dimri, Ammy Virk. It needed to be tighter, with more gags and a smoother shift to the dramatic portions. Vicky Kaushal has
Anand Tiwari’s ‘Bad Newz’ is a Vicky Kaushal showcase and an easy watch, and not much else Read More
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 Akshay Kumar, Radhika Madan, Paresh Rawal. Despite some turbulence in the writing, this is a feel-good story where the woman is as important as the
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 KB Ganesh Kumar, Gokul Suresh, Aju Varghese, Anarkali Marikar. It works because of the performances and because the filmmaking energy is so contagious. Let
