Manju Warrier in the Bharatha Natyam attire and beating up bad guys with absolute swag is something that looks pretty appealing on paper. The only thing that I can say as a positive about Santosh Sivan’s horrendously lousy directorial Jack N Jill is that there is a good possibility that some filmmakers might consider making… Continue reading Jack N Jill
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Meri Awas Suno
I know an audience segment that finds movies like Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam and Vijay Superum Pournamiyum motivational and inspiring. Even though I haven’t disliked these movies, there was no major moving element for me in those films. Meri Awas Suno, Prajesh Sen’s third outing as a director along with Jayasurya somewhere, falls in a… Continue reading Meri Awas Suno
Lalitham Sundaram
Lalitham Sundaram feels like this safe bet feel-good script with a predictable ending for a larger part of its runtime. A dysfunctional family is a theme that we have seen in many films, and Madhu Warrier’s first directorial also focuses on the same. But the characters written by Pramod Mohan are kind of shallow, and… Continue reading Lalitham Sundaram
Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham
The visual effects of Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham are really good, and the background score from Rahul Raj is terrific. But the foundation of any good film is its screenplay. That aspect of Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham is all over the place. A movie that was depicted as the story of a freedom fighter, who was a… Continue reading Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham
Chathur Mukham
In almost all its promotional events and interviews, the people associated with the movie Chathur Mukham have constantly talked about how fresh the concept is. The movie comes with the tag of being a techno horror film, and the makers have claimed that it is not your typical ghost story. I expected the movie to… Continue reading Chathur Mukham
The Priest
The Priest starring Mammootty is one movie that loses its charm as it progresses due to its script’s usualness. It is trying desperately to walk away from the familiarity. But all those attempts just stretched the movie far too much, and by the end of the movie, I felt that the script should have been… Continue reading The Priest
Prathi Poovankozhi
Prathi Poovankozhi is a movie based on the short story Sankadam by Unni R. What’s so interesting about the story of the movie is that it sort of has realness in the way it treats the situation through which our main character goes through. If a movie like Ozhivu Divasathe Kali exposed the inherent discrimination… Continue reading Prathi Poovankozhi
Asuran
There is a B and C center audience in Tamil Nadu who is okay with a Kadaikutty Singham and Namma Veettu Pillai. And there are a lot of commercially successful films of similar nature where you clearly can sense the absence of subtlety in narration and presentation. Vetri Maaran’s Asuran is in a way his… Continue reading Asuran