An Action Hero, the new Ayushmann Khurrana starrer action flick, is actually a smart satire that wins you over with its outlandishness. It starts as a revenge drama that has to do much with fragile masculine ego. But writer-director Anirudh Iyer uses the fertile plot to create something bizarre and novel. Out of all the… Continue reading An Action Hero Review | A Satirical Black Comedy That Looks Surprisingly Pertinent
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Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu
In Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu, Gautham Vasudev Menon is clearly trying his luck at the gangster film genre by creating his version of Velu Naicker. In creating a world that looks original, Menon succeeds to an extent. But the narrative duration is such that you kind of sense a lack of clarity in depicting the eventfulness… Continue reading Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu
Sundari Gardens
Sundari Gardens has this aspiration to analyze a character rarely explored in our mainstream cinema. And the movie by Charlie Davis prefers this Jis Joy-ish feel-good template to do that. In the initial portions, when we see the free-flowing life of our heroine, it feels like a breezy comedy. But as the movie tries to… Continue reading Sundari Gardens
Gauthamante Radham
My family owned a Maruti 800 for almost 11 years and there was a very deep emotional connection with that car. I am saying this because I can understand where the idea behind Gauthamante Radham came from. But debutant director Anand Menon just couldn’t utilize that emotional bonding in his first movie simply because of… Continue reading Gauthamante Radham