Whenever Nanda Gopalan Kumaran is having an eccentric emotional outburst in the movie NGK, all I could see was a Selvaraghavan trying to escape from the constraints of a U certified commercial hero-centric film. On paper, this movie has all the essential ingredients required for a Selvaraghavan film filled with a lot of grays. But… Continue reading NGK
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The 2014’s Godzilla, even though it was way too heavy in terms of the exhausting action set pieces, it looked a bit authentic as it convincingly included the nuclear energy part in the whole Godzilla concept. When it comes to the 2019 story, exactly after five years from the events of the first film, the… Continue reading Godzilla: King of the Monsters
PM Narendra Modi
In one particular scene in director Omung Kumar’s biopic on Narendra Modi titled PM Narendra Modi, Indira Gandhi is shown as this worried woman who wants to arrest this new sensation of Gujarat, Mr. Narendra Modi. While plucking roses from her garden she asks her subordinates to arrest Modi. While leaving the garden, she casually… Continue reading PM Narendra Modi
Oronnonnara Pranayakadha
SPOILER ALERT: Without revealing the major plot twist, this review will be incomplete. So if you are someone who really wants to watch Oronnonnara Pranayakadha, don’t read this review. Imagine a situation where you are watching a really dull movie. And the second half of the movie has horrendous developments making you do facepalm repeatedly.… Continue reading Oronnonnara Pranayakadha
Jeem Boom Bhaa
I am someone who has enjoyed watching the recent Biju Menon movies Orayiram Kinakkalal and Padayottam. And for me, Jeem Boom Bhaa was definitely not an unbearable film. But it was a disappointing film that had the potential to be an entertainer like the movies mentioned in the beginning (if you consider them as good… Continue reading Jeem Boom Bhaa
Aladdin
Guy Ritchie is known for his signature wackiness in treating subjects. When it comes to Aladdin, the new version from Disney featuring Will Smith as Genie, Ritchie does manage to squeeze in a peculiarity in treatment and that’s not at all an extremely eccentric one. The musical comedy manages to grow beyond the mark of a mere… Continue reading Aladdin
The Gambler
I would call the Malayalam movie The Gambler a badly executed cunningly planned scam. The film aspires to (or makes us feel that it has such aspirations) tell a story about a young man who is constantly facing setbacks in his life. But at the end of a lot of random number of events, what… Continue reading The Gambler
India’s Most Wanted
The climax of the movie India’s Most Wanted has director Raj Kumar Gupta trying to pull off his version of Argo. As some parts of it did work for me, I left the theater with a disappointment that this was a movie that had the potential to be a genuine espionage thriller. The dilution in… Continue reading India’s Most Wanted