Bloody Beggar Review | An Overdone, Wacky Comedy That Fails to Utilize Its Premise

The latest Kavin starrer Bloody Beggar, directed by Sivabalan Muthukumar and produced by director Nelson, is a wacky black comedy that fails to utilize its unique premise due to all these contrasting themes and treatments one gets to see in it. The film sort of dangles between being a black comedy to being a sentimental… Continue reading Bloody Beggar Review | An Overdone, Wacky Comedy That Fails to Utilize Its Premise

Amaran Review | A Biopic That Documents the Journey in a Fairly Engaging Way

The one thing that makes the audience root for the characters in the latest Sivakarthikeyan starrer Amaran is the love story of Major Mukund Varadarajan and his wife, Rebecca Varghese. The army part of the story, which may have consumed the bulkier chunk of the budget, is largely a documentation of the soldier’s life. Even… Continue reading Amaran Review | A Biopic That Documents the Journey in a Fairly Engaging Way

Black Review | An Engaging, but Extremely Diluted Version of Coherence

Reviewing the new Tamil movie Black is tricky because it’s like reviewing Ghajini after having seen Memento. So, if you have seen the 2013 English movie Coherence, directed by James Ward Byrkit, the chances of you looking down upon this adaptation of Coherence is pretty high because of the typical Tamil movie spoon-feeding and masala… Continue reading Black Review | An Engaging, but Extremely Diluted Version of Coherence

Vettaiyan Review | A Flat Masala Movie Trying to Salvage Itself With the Relevance Card

What was remarkable about the second film of T. J. Gnanavel, Jai Bhim, was the fact that it focused entirely on the cause of the story. The stardom of Suriya was only used to make the story reach more people, and it had no burden of catering to the fans of the actor. In its… Continue reading Vettaiyan Review | A Flat Masala Movie Trying to Salvage Itself With the Relevance Card

Meiyazhagan Review | The Cinematic Equivalent of a Long, Warm Hug

Meiyazhagan, C Prem Kumar’s second movie after the magnificent “96”, has the same texture in terms of treatment. Even if you look at the core idea of the movie, Arulmozhi, the central character of this movie, and Ram of 96 has certain emotional similarities. The movie puts you in the space of a joyous onlooker,… Continue reading Meiyazhagan Review | The Cinematic Equivalent of a Long, Warm Hug

Lubber Pandhu Review | A Smartly Tweaked Sports Drama With a Variety of Layers

The reason why Lubber Pandhu, the latest Tamil sports drama directed by Tamizharasan Pachamuthu, feels so exciting is because it has a packed feeling in terms of layers of drama. The most prominent layer is the ego between the two main characters, played by Harish Kalyan and Attakathi Dinesh. But Tamizharasan Pachamuthu and his writers… Continue reading Lubber Pandhu Review | A Smartly Tweaked Sports Drama With a Variety of Layers

The Greatest of All Time Review | An Aged Script With an Unnecessarily De-aged Vijay

The Greatest of All Time by Venkat Prabhu is a wannabe film that tries too hard to be this Mission Impossible kind of film. The problem is that the script has certain bullet points for the story to move from one point to another. But the writing is struggling to move things smoothly. On top… Continue reading The Greatest of All Time Review | An Aged Script With an Unnecessarily De-aged Vijay

Vaazhai Review | A Well-Crafted Tale That Depicts the Depth of a Tragedy From a Different Point of View

Vaazhai from Mari Selvaraj is a story that is based on something that really happened in the director’s life, and at the end of the film, we get to see photos of newspaper articles of the main event that took the lives of 20 people. What is cinematically compelling about  Vaazhai is how Mari Selvaraj uses the visual… Continue reading Vaazhai Review | A Well-Crafted Tale That Depicts the Depth of a Tragedy From a Different Point of View