Sunil Ibrahim is a filmmaker whose movies always look interesting on a thematic level but never get a fulfilling result when they are made. His new movie Roy is yet another thriller with mysteries. But the dullness in the narrative and the forced staging of sequences make it not at all compelling, and looking at… Continue reading Roy Review | A Hastily Concluded Inert Thriller
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Wonder Women Review | Yet Another Moving Tale of Hope From Anjali Menon
In her movies, Anjali Menon always enjoys exploring multiple dimensions of a set of people with similarities. In Bangalore Days, it was the cousins; in Koode, it was the siblings; and in Usthad Hotel, I think it was the generations. She somehow creates a tribe and then communicates their emotional journey from a low point… Continue reading Wonder Women Review | Yet Another Moving Tale of Hope From Anjali Menon
Appan Review | An Appreciable Family Drama With an Inconsistent Emotional Graph
One thing that makes Appan a novel attempt is the multiple ways of reading it offers to the viewer. Maju’s second film after French Viplavam looks like a dark comedy initially. Then it shifts to a tale about domestic abuse, eventually becoming a traditional revenge drama. Even though the depiction of the intensity of the… Continue reading Appan Review | An Appreciable Family Drama With an Inconsistent Emotional Graph
Eesho
I am pretty sure every promotional material of the new SonyLIV movie Eesho will have one thing in common. There will be taglines similar to “if you have a daughter/ if you are a father, you should watch this film” There are movies that are made to utilize this good-intent sentiment of people. Eesho, directed… Continue reading Eesho
Maharani 2
In the first season of Maharani, the focus was on showing the growth of an ignorant Rani Bharti to the mainstream politics of Bihar. As a major conflict was created at the end of season 1, the second season, Maharani 2, shows us a politically mature Rani who is going head to head with everyone… Continue reading Maharani 2
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
Tamil Rockerz
When someone decides to create an 8-episode series about Tamil Rockers, the infamous online website that was a major threat to the Tamil cinema industry a few years back, we hope to see the lesser-known facts and interesting insights about the whole thing. But Tamil Rockerz, directed by Arivazhagan, feels like a lame and superficial… Continue reading Tamil Rockerz
Victim
When you finish watching the new SonyLIV anthology Victim, it almost feels like they got an excellent short film from Pa. Ranjith, and to make it an anthology package, they just chose some random scripts that even the makers of those films hesitated to create. You kind of feel bad for Pa Ranjith as his… Continue reading Victim