Category: Tamil

Karuppan had posters and promos that somewhat capitalized on the politically sensational Jallikattu issue. With Vijay Sethupathi doing the role of the title protagonist everyone was curious about this movie directed by Panneerselvam. But what you get to see on screen is a mediocre extension of a tacky daily soap and with a plot that… Continue reading Karuppan

When a film that is 160 minutes long manages to keep you engaged for its entire runtime, that means the movie is entirely invested in its content. Thupparivaalan directed by Mysskin is an engaging pacy detective thriller that has the right amount of ingredients to be a refreshing commercially appealing exciting movie. Kaniyan Poongundran is… Continue reading Thupparivaalan

Ram’s Taramani is about the flawed world’s ideologies and the never ending debate over feminism. Ram has his own way of narrating things without bothering about the political correctness of the idea he presents. There is no balancing act here in the screenplay and so for that reason Taramani is flawed, but for the same… Continue reading Taramani

Lens directed by Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan was a skillfully made thriller which succeeded in making an impact on the viewers on having awareness about their behavior in the cyber world. What Ranjit Jeyakodi is trying to achieve through the new film Puriyatha Puthir is somewhat the same. But his approach is more inclined to the typical… Continue reading Puriyatha Puthir

Let me just narrate couple of situations in the movie Vivegam for you. Hero and Villain are having this hand to hand fight and the heroine who is in severe pain starts singing to give some confidence boost to hero. And in another scene, the villain tracks the heroine by assuming she would login to… Continue reading Vivegam

Why the first part of VIP worked for me was because of the amount of simplicity it had and also there was a nice build up towards the second half’s ambitious developments. The humiliation Raghuvaran had to face and the kind of humor that got developed etc. made the film really funny and for a… Continue reading Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 VIP 2

Nibunan from director Arun Vaidyanathan is a crime thriller that has its own scattered moments. It is the 150th film of Arjun and to be honest the desperation to make this a tribute to him ends up in awkward outdated moments of heroism. With the standard pattern of serial killer movies getting repeated here Nibunan… Continue reading Nibunan

Director duo Pushkar and Gayathri’s Vikram Vedha is an extremely engaging action thriller that traverses in to the perceptions and depths of its main characters. With a debate going on in the film’s entire narrative, there isn’t a single moment in the film where you will distract. The mould of a typical Tamil film might… Continue reading Vikram Vedha