Lucifer is a smartly structured movie keeping in mind the targeted audience. If anyone asks me what kind of a film it is, I would say it is a reinvention of a formula that we have seen in many movies (Mohanlal himself has done one titled Ustad). But what is good about Lucifer is the… Continue reading Lucifer
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Even though the new film in the How to train your dragon franchise, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, takes its own sweet time to get into that humorous zone, there is a climax that is overwhelmingly positive. It sort of justifies the values on which the story of the whole franchise was… Continue reading How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Ilayaraja
The best way to look at the new Madhav Ramadasan movie Ilayaraja would be to view it as a kid’s film. It is loud, it is predictable and you will have to be totally alien to these kinds of stories if this movie has to move you emotionally. Developed as an underdog story, this movie… Continue reading Ilayaraja
Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu
Even in a flop film like Alamara, Midhun Manuel Thomas was able to create witty moments through conversations and characters. Humor is his safe zone and the kind of humor we have seen in every movie that Midhun Manuel Thomas has associated with is indeed the saving factor of the new movie Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu.… Continue reading Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu
Kesari
In the last half an hour of the movie Kesari, there is a great amount of violence and bloodshed. Akshay Kumar who is great in doing physical stunts makes that gory “one man against hundreds” fight look cinematically appealing. But that’s only the last half an hour of this movie. This is a two and… Continue reading Kesari
Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Vasan Bala’s debut directorial Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota is an extremely fresh and hilarious interpretation of the heroics we have seen in Hindi cinema. It is pretty much like watching Deadpool as the story elements are typical yet tweaked like a wacky spoof. With the movie being able to create well etched out characters… Continue reading Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Photograph
The melancholic Miloni of Ritesh Batra’s new film Photograph is one character that talked a lot with minimal screen moments. Much like his earlier Mumbai based film, The Lunchbox, Batra again plays with the idea of connection between two people who didn’t know each other. Even though it is not as hard hitting as The… Continue reading Photograph
Ottam
There was one scene in the movie Ottam where a goon starts to talk profound stuff about life and starts to compare it as a running race. Our depressed hero suddenly gets an energy hearing that banal speech and the visuals of him getting self-awakening was so bizarre that I looked at the guy who… Continue reading Ottam