Uri: The Surgical Strike from writer director Aditha Dhar has to be looked as a fictional war film if you wish to enjoy it to the fullest. Because, on an agenda level the movie is problematic. I am saying problematic because there is a sense of hate spreading narrative here which I personally can’t tolerate… Continue reading Uri: The Surgical Strike
The Accidental Prime Minister
The dialogue from Simmba, “Tell me something I don’t know”, could easily be the reaction one can have after watching the movie, The Accidental Prime Minister. The official twitter handle of the ruling party has promoted the film, so calling it a propaganda film won’t need much of an explanation. Propaganda films have always happened… Continue reading The Accidental Prime Minister
Vijay Superum Pournamiyum
Vijay Superum Pournamiyum from Jis Joy is one movie you would definitely expect from a director who made a film like Sunday Holiday. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment where senior actor Siddique’s character talks about the importance of understanding the person you marry rather than doing it for the family.… Continue reading Vijay Superum Pournamiyum
Viswasam
Viswasam is that kind of a movie which I feel Siva wrote overnight after seeing a bunch of 70’s and 80’s melodrama. He just took the melodrama from those and reassembled the stuff he has used previously and made a movie that just went on and on making me almost feel that the portions I… Continue reading Viswasam
Petta
Karthik Subbaraj is one guy who openly admitted that he liked Lingaa, one of the worst Rajinikanth films in the recent past. That sort of shows how big a fan he is of the stylish super star and a talent like him collaborating with Rajinikanth obviously gave me hope as it may give an end… Continue reading Petta
Bumblebee
Bumblebee is easily the most well made Transformers movie. It is calm, it isn’t jingoistic and not at all misogynistic. For a Michael Bay ruined franchise like Transformers, achieving these three things itself is a historic feat. Bumblebee is a spin-off and it is almost equivalent to what Rogue one was to the Star Wars… Continue reading Bumblebee
Simmba
In a recent interview Ranveer Singh said the truth about Rohit Shetty films. They are movies that are tailor made for people who come for the first day first show at Gaiety Galaxy (A theatre in Mumbai that offers the old single screen vibe). And his new movie Simmba is an extension of the Rohit Shetty franchise… Continue reading Simmba
Adanga Maru
Adanga Maru starring Jayam Ravi is one script that one will write if they watch half a dozen of Shankar movies back to back. The heavily used out theme of hero getting destroyed by mighty villains and then taking revenge on each one of them is getting repeated here. I am not entirely against using… Continue reading Adanga Maru