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Parimala and Co Review | A Scattered Dark Comedy That Ran Out of Ideas After the Initial Burst

Aswin Bharadwaj — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:09:01 +0000

If you look at the promos for the latest Tamil comedy from Pandiraaj, Parimala and Co, it gives that Mohiniyattam kind of vibe, where they’re taking a spin on Paapanasam, the Tamil remake of Drishyam. With Urvashi and Jayaram sharing crackling chemistry on screen, it felt like the movie would have enough dark humor to […]

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Blast Review | LCU Meets Drishyam in This Predictable Yet Fun Action Ride

Aswin Bharadwaj — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:23:05 +0000

If you look at the trailer for the new Tamil movie Blast, they have pretty much revealed all their main characters, and we are going into theaters knowing that the whole family is trained in Karate. So I was kind of curious to know how writer-director Subash K Raj would develop a good story around […]

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Karuppu Review | Suriya’s Aura Points Get Wasted in RJ Balaji’s Clueless Fantasy

Aswin Bharadwaj — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:46:05 +0000

If you look at movies like LKG and Mookuthi Amman, where RJ Balaji is a creative contributor, either as a director or a writer, one can see that he has a soft corner for the idea of satire. In one, he was mocking politics, and in the other, he was questioning the blind belief system […]

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Kara Review | A Potent Heist Idea That Gets Muddled by Melodrama

Aswin Bharadwaj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:25:37 +0000

There was a time in Tamil cinema, not long back, where everything eventually got connected to agriculture (vevasayam), and our hero will always be that savior of farmers. Vignesh Raja, who made an impressive debut with Por Thozhil, is actually trying to go back to this forgotten trope. But the interesting thing here is that […]

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Love Insurance Kompany LIK Review | An Expensive Mess That Preaches About the Need for a Social Media Detox

Aswin Bharadwaj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:08:41 +0000

Set in 2040, LIK, aka Love Insurance Kompany, from Vignesh Shivan, has the tone of a millennial who is becoming a boomer equivalent to Gen Z and the subsequent generations. The futuristic movies that have worked for the audiences have had concepts that take a deep dive into the possibilities of the future and set […]

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Leader Review | Legend Saravanan Is on a Destruction Spree – From Logic to the Vande Bharat

Aswin Bharadwaj — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:42:13 +0000

Over the last couple of decades, various movie industries in India have seen numerous iterations of the classic “A History of Violence” template, where the seemingly simple hero is not an ordinary person and has a glorious past. Since we have seen many such films featuring major superstars from all industries, I wouldn’t really blame […]

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Youth Review | A Familiar Yet Entertaining Coming-Of-Age Story With Good Packaging

Aswin Bharadwaj — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:06:37 +0000

Ken Karunas’ debut movie as a director, Youth, features a structure similar to what we are now seeing in Tamil cinema, where the hero’s commercially pleasing, fun-filled life is mixed with his self-awakening track towards the end. The recent Pradeep Ranganathan movies, especially Dragon, had that structure. While Dragon had a very broad canvas that […]

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Made in Korea Review | A Lifeless Tamil Knock-off of Queen That Nobody Asked For

Aswin Bharadwaj — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:14:00 +0000

Made in Korea, the latest Netflix original movie feels like a film designed by the algorithm to tap into the market of Gen Zs who are fond of Korean movies and music. Starring Priyanka Mohan as the central character, Made in Korea is basically a different adaptation of the Hindi movie Queen. In terms of […]

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Thaai Kizhavi Review | The Last 15 Minutes Save This Scattered Comedy From Creative ICU

Aswin Bharadwaj — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:31:24 +0000

Tamil cinema has a category of loud dramas that industry professionals refer to as B and C center movies. These are movies targeted for the rural audience who still like the template of comedy + songs + action + sentiments. We do see even popular actors trying this once in a while to maintain a […]

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With Love Review | A Breezy, Fun Take On Teenage Romance and Closure, With Forgivable Flaws

Aswin Bharadwaj — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:00:09 +0000

Abhishan Jeevinth’s first movie as a hero, With Love, is a film that explores the concept of finding closure in teenage love. And for that, director Madhan takes this approach of making it conversational to a good extent. Even though the conflicts in the movie have that forced feel, the mature approach towards the closure […]

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