If you look at this year’s Onam release RDX, we all know that the scene that showed the villains hurting that baby had a significant role in making the viewer root for the heroes. If you take out that scene from that movie, it would have been a huge task for the makers to keep… Continue reading Neru Review | An Emotional Courtroom Drama With Convenient Twists and Turns
Author: Aswin Bharadwaj
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Dunki Review | Easily the Weakest Rajkumar Hirani Film With a Skimmed-Through Script
Of late, I have felt that the movies of Rajkumar Hirani have not aged well, as when you rewatch them, the loudness kind of sticks out. Yes, the humor in them has always helped them cover up the glossy and preachy messaging. When it comes to Dunki, he is very much sort of repeating the… Continue reading Dunki Review | Easily the Weakest Rajkumar Hirani Film With a Skimmed-Through Script
Thaal Review | This Ginger-Cringe College Drama Has the Potential to Give You Trauma
In the hands of a good director and writer, the latest movie Thaal, starring Anson Paul and Aradhya Ann, might have at least been a problematic yet disturbing film about selfless love. Sadly, under the direction of Rajasaagar and written by Dr. G Kishor, this movie is a horrendously cheesy and melodramatic love story that… Continue reading Thaal Review | This Ginger-Cringe College Drama Has the Potential to Give You Trauma
Bullet Diaries Review | Yet Another Friday, Yet Another Dhyan Sreenivasan Debacle
Written and directed by Santhosh Mandoor, Bullet Diaries, starring Dhyan Sreenivasan, is a lazy drama that just wants to utilize the love for Bullet on a very peripheral level. With the drama in the story getting unnecessarily stretched out with pointless deviations, just to make the movie’s length roughly two hours, Bullet Diaries is a… Continue reading Bullet Diaries Review | Yet Another Friday, Yet Another Dhyan Sreenivasan Debacle
Ennennum / Now and Forever Review | Exploring the Concept of Love in a Manipulative and Customizable Future
Shalini Ushadevi’s directorial venture, Ennennum (Now and Forever), is a smart emotional drama that is set in a dystopian future / present. What was immediately likable about the film was that it wasn’t trying to appeal to the audience by showing flashy bits of future technologies. The movie manages to create a conversation around the… Continue reading Ennennum / Now and Forever Review | Exploring the Concept of Love in a Manipulative and Customizable Future
Neelamudi / Blue Hair Review | An Ingenious Indie Drama With a Unique Presentation of Its Politics
The ingrained casteism that has been normalized in our society is the focus of the film Neelamudi, which sort of takes the attire of vlogging to make its politics accessible to the next generation who think they have risen above the old school thinking and are setting an example to the past and future. The… Continue reading Neelamudi / Blue Hair Review | An Ingenious Indie Drama With a Unique Presentation of Its Politics
Kennedy Review | Anurag Kashyap’s Whacky Noir Thriller Is a Captivating Character Study
At one point in the movie Kennedy, the hero is confronted by his wife, and she tells him there is an Animal inside you, and that is dangerous for the family. For someone like me who saw Animal a week back from a theater, Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy felt like a perfect reply for all those… Continue reading Kennedy Review | Anurag Kashyap’s Whacky Noir Thriller Is a Captivating Character Study
Annapoorani Review | Nayanthara Starrer Is Intentionally Noble but Creatively Tasteless
On a skeleton level, the new Nayanthara movie Annapoorani’s script feels like a non-boring template story about a girl pursuing her dreams against all odds. But when it comes to fleshing out that idea into a proper script, director Nilesh Krishnaa struggles to create genuinely exciting drama that will make us root for the leading… Continue reading Annapoorani Review | Nayanthara Starrer Is Intentionally Noble but Creatively Tasteless