This review will not say why the movie is bad and how it could have been better. Rather, it will be a rant on why one of my most favourite directors should not have taken this movie. I consider Manivannan as one of the best in Tamil Cinema. His movies are far far better than [...]
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Movie Review: Ethir Neechal – What for?
If you ask **RS Durai Senthilkumar**, director of **Ethir Neechal**, what’s the one line for his movie, he might end up with any one of the following answers; + A young man who has a problem with his peculiar name, realises that a name gets fame because of what you do. + It’s a comedy [...]
Movie Review: Soodhu Kavvum – This madness is enjoyable
Let me be clear, Soodhu Kavvum is not a classic or a path breaking movie but it will end up as one of the well made movies of 2013. For me, this May Day's first choice movie was Soodhu Kavvum against Ethir Neechal and Moondru Per Moondru Kadhal (after Nagaraja Chozhan MA MLA opting out [...]
Movie Review: Udhayam NH4 – Badly laid
Road movies make an interesting watch only when the audience are made to travel along with the lead protagonists. If the audience are as lost as the lead protagonists like in Udhayam NH4, let the road gods save them. Probably some of you may like the movie by calling it fast paced and entertaining but [...]
Movie Review: Gouvravam – Not enough
There are two ways that a movie dealing with social problem can go wrong. One, it can become aimless rhetoric that preaches audience or it will be a shallow half baked product that never conveys the point it intended too. Surprisingly, Radha Mohan's Gouvravam falls in to the second category. Gouvravam is a story of [...]
Movie Review: Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga – Neither Kedi Nor Killadi
When we watch bad movies of some prolific directors, we try to assure ourself that it's just a small slip. But when we watch certain movies, we tend to wonder whether this director was the one who made his first movie. Pandiraj is a perfect example of what I am talking about. His national award [...]
Movie Review: Paradesi – an aimless wail
A movie becomes great only when it conveys the intended message to audience. I don’t believe in the differentiation between art house and commercial cinema. For me, I either enjoy it or I don’t. I didn’t enjoy Paradesi (don’t make the argument, Paradesi is a serious movie, how can you “enjoy” it? – I meant [...]
Movie Review: Vishwaroopam – Not!
In one line, Vishwaroopam's story is “An Indian spy is chasing an Afghanistani terrorist to save America (as of now, may be in the second part he might save India too). Probably, my fellow Kamal fans would prowl on me in taking a simplistic view on his movie. But for the first time I believe, [...]
Movie Review: Alex Pandian – Disgrace
The first fight sequence in Alex Pandian gives you sense of what to expect out of the movie. It's that movie in which you will laugh at the plight of movie watchers like us rather than the movie. But thanks to director Suraaj, I learnt the following things from the movie and they were [...]
2012 – Kollywood Round Up
2012 is the year of surprises in Tamil Cinema. Movies that believed in their story and screenplay value made big budget hypes as big jokes. The music scene also threw up some wonderful promising additions but only the future will tell how they are going to fare. My lists are not based on box office [...]