The film stars Soori and Anna Ben. Again, the ‘story’ is but an excuse to mount a wonderful set of characters and geographies and troubling traditions. To the extent that one can determine a “signature shot” from a filmmaker who is just two films old, PS Vinothraj’s second feature, Kottukkaali, opens with his… signature shot. […]
By Venkatesh Kumar It’s been a pursuit and it happened incidentally in my life! My search in tracing the life sketch of my great grandfather Rao Sahib K Kothandapani Pillai (1896-1979), an Indian Diplomat who served as the Protector of Emigrants Madras during WW2 and was indeed involved in an event in bringing soldiers of […]
By Hari PR It is clear from the first scene of ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ that a little boy and his pet dog who occupy the first frame are going to be key characters. We are also immediately made aware of marital disharmony between the two leads, in literally the loudest possible way. We expect […]
Let us start with a basic rule of economics! If something is scarce – it will have a market value. If the supply of a good or service is low, the market price will rise, providing there is sufficient demand…
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A familiar story can look fresh when you add the right ingredients and enrich it with details that a lesser filmmaker wouldn’t have even imagined . Girish AD’s Premalu is a ‘literally me’ movie. It will be hard to find a guy, especially from India, who hasn’t experienced the same emotions as the film’s protagonist […]
In 2022 it was estimated that Switzerland had an estimated 110 billionaires with a combined wealth of $338 billion – more than Saudi Arabia, Singapore and United Arab Emirates. The average wealth of Swiss citizens is approximately $700,000 but what…
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The film deals with two murder cases in a bygone era, with common binding factors and driven by similar emotions, with a final twist you don’t see coming . Sometimes, simplicity is the best approach. It works wonderfully in the case of Tovino Thomas’ Anweshippin Kandethum. I say this because, at a time when some […]
The film stars Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon. The premise has promise, but the flat screenplay and flatter direction kill all possibilities of fun. In the opening stretch of Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya, a robotics programmer named Aryan (Shahid Kapoor) has a dream that he lifts the veil off his bride and she […]
By Karthik Amarnath The biggest surprise in Jeo Baby’s Kaathal-The Core is how squeaky clean it looks. I hardly saw a scene with a dirty floor or a messy room. All the frames are clean, all the clothes neatly pressed, the mustaches perfectly trimmed. For a film that’s titled The Core, the screen feels like the gloss. And […]
The film stars Manikandan and Sri Gouri Priya. Its rhythms are so fresh and new, and what it does is so revolutionary. Lover opens with an image of someone learning how to surf and falling off the board – unsteady, fearful – and one of the film’s final images is that of this same person […]
The film stars Vishnu Vishal and Vikranth, and Rajinikanth appears in a supporting role. The good intentions are undone by a convoluted screenplay. In Aishwarya Rajinikanth’s Lal Salaam, Senthil plays a temple priest named Saamikannu. He lives alone. His son lives elsewhere with his family, and Saamikannu yearns for the annual temple festival: the thiruvizha. […]
The film stars Bhumi Pednekar as an intrepid small-town journalist. The story takes no risks in the telling, and we are left with a simplistic variation on the David-Goliath template. In Pulkit’s Bhakshak, Bhumi Pednekar plays a journalist named Vaishali, who runs her own TV channel in Patna. There is one other person in her […]
