Spoilers ahead… The stage is set for a compelling drama punctuated by bursts of action. But what we end up with is a generic slo-mo action movie with occasional bursts of drama. Would you believe me if I said that the most affecting character in Abhilash Joshiy’s King of Kotha is a cat? It has […]
Spoilers ahead… The film , starring Anand Deverakonda and Vaishnavi Chaitanya, is about growing-up pains. It is about the idiotic things we do, the idiotic mistakes we make in our teens and early twenties. So this is the scenario. Let’s say we fall hard for someone in school, someone from the same lower-class neighbourhood that […]
hari prasad wrote: This year’s National Awards are kinda disappointing for Tamil Cinema as only Kadaisi Vivasaayi and Iravin Nizhal bag awards for best Tamil movie , a special mention award and for best female playback singer respectively. Madhavan’s Rocketry won the Best Feature Film award. RRR has won the best popular film providing wholesome […]
Last week’s global dairy auction saw milk prices fall to 5 year lows with the price of whole milk powder falling to $2,875 per tonne which is a 10.9% drop from the previous event. This price indicates a current surplus…
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By Karthik Amarnath For a variety of reasons, I had avoided watching Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”, which stars Brendan Fraser as a morbidly obese English teacher. For one, it had taken me the better part of two decades to get over teenage fat-shaming, and I wasn’t ready to let a film dig into those scars. Especially […]
By Sudharsanan Sampath Note: I used to write for the sake of writing. But these days work and other distractions get in the way. I was at an airport, waiting for my flight. It was delayed by 2 hours. The internet was shoddy. I had nothing to do. So, I took out my laptop and […]
Spoilers ahead… Yes, this is a feel-good film. But With ‘Chup’ and ‘Ghoomer’, Balki seems to have entered a new phase that’s darker and more exciting than what we knew him for earlier. Every underdog sports drama is something you’ve seen before, so how do you make things different? For one, you give the audience […]
By Krishnaraj Sambath As I walked out of a packed but sedate theatre in the burbs of Houston, I kept thinking why they bothered with that “twist”. It was a perfectly contained movie without it, and the movie would’ve ended on a high (with superstar and fellow stars sharing the screen). Instead, it ends on […]
Spoilers ahead… The PSA-ish film is way too long, and some plot points are not fleshed out well. But the cast makes it work. Wikipedia calls Amit Rai’s OMG 2 a “spiritual” sequel to Umesh Shukla’s Oh My God – and a lot of the spirituality comes from the film being set in Ujjain, home […]
Spoilers ahead… The film needed far better action sequences, but the emotion of the ‘prem katha’ is maintained right through, and it’s nice to see good masala-movie writing again. Some six years after a stubborn Amrish Puri finally relented and let his daughter go – with the words, ” Jaa Simran jaa” – we had […]
By Satish Iyer The telephone shrilled loudly. Kapoor lifted the receiver. He listened intently and almost dropped dead. He started sweating profusely. His wife Madhavi cried, “Kapoor, what happened?” Kapoor responded, in despairing tones, “Madhavi, we are doomed. This is the end of the road for us. I know I haven’t directed the most entertaining […]
I blogged on this topic earlier in the year but thought it topical with the coverage of the Women’s Football World Cup in Australian and New Zealand. The tournament has been a great success and by the time it ends,…
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By MANK (Spoilers Included)Hey!!!engga naa than king(u)naa vechathuthan rules(u)Antha rules eh ye istathukku apo apo mathitae eruppeanAtha kabchipunu kettuttu follow pannanumAtha vettuttu ethavathu adavadithano pannanum nu nenachaUnna kandathundama vetti kalachi pottuduvea Hukum..Tiger Ka Hukum This is Rajini’s punch line from “Jailer,” this could also be Director Nelson’s Hukum\warning\threat to the audience who are entering the […]
By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Father and son meet, somewhere in PakistanMother feels the breeze, happily in Hindustan. Innocent Indian fugitive, finds some “dana-pani”In the house of a gold, hearted Pakistani. The fugitive addresses Pakistani, as his “Masi”The old school Hindi filming, at its very massy. A helpless Sikh father, prays at a “majar”The next moment […]
Sad to hear of Trevor Francis’ passing last month. I can still recall his goal for Nottingham Forest in the 1979 Champions League Final in Munich against Swedish club Malmo – his first European game for the club (see video).…
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