Jana Gana Mana – powerful content keeps us engaged

Official Trailer: When we open the newspaper do we stop and ask who decides which news get to be the headline, which ones make it to the front page or end up as a small item in inner page? What we get to read? Or who controls the topics in 24×7 news channels? What we get to see and hear? Two similar incidents, one gets to be on the front

 

Vikram – An entertaining Thriller-Action and yes, hide the forks from the dining table

Official Trailer:   First, I got to admit that I didn’t notice, never felt, the movie is nearly 3 hours long. No slowing down or drag in the pacing of the narration. While there are many things that made the movie work, my pick would be the director and the writer Lokesh Kanagaraj. Specifically, the writing is the key ingredient which pulled in rest of the compounds seamlessly into the

 

Fast Cuts – Beast, Etharkum Thunindhavan

Beast: Forget Roar, this beast doesn’t make a woof!! Official Trailer: Beast has more misses than hits. For the starters, for the beast to roar, the villains need to be equally strong with character. Just saying the bad guys are Muslim terrorists is not going to cut it. This trope has been beaten to death and is getting to a point of causing nausea. For the money they spent to

 

Puzhu – Impressive psychological drama with a political commentary

Official Trailer: Puzhu is a psychological thriller beautifully imagined in a home invasion genre. Better way to say, it is the invasion of the mind. Kuttan, portrayed by Mamootty, the brahmin protagonist feels his territory is being violated when his sister, Bharathy, portrayed by Parvathy Thiruvothu, moves in with her husband, Kuttappan, portrayed by Appunni Sasi, in the same apartment complex. Kuttan feels the environment is polluted by their moving

 

KGF: Chapter 1 & 2 – Salaam Rocky Bhai

Official Trailer: KGF: Chapter 2: KGF: Chapter 1: [SPOILERS AHEAD…] “You don’t become a Don by killing 10 people” Above is the question posed to Rocky by one of the henchmen of Don Shetty of Bombay. We don’t hear the comeback from Rocky immediately. We hear it once Rocky proves why Shetty must fear him. And then we get the retort I didn’t become a Don by killing 10 random

 

All of us are Dead – Zombies are the Winners

Official Trailer: The Strong Are Now Ripping Apart the Weak. It Happens All The Time When Hollywood ran out of ideas with Zombie Genre, Train to Busan movie came along which reimagined Zombies, brought them alive on a train and gave us a nail-baiting thriller ride. Train to Busan felt like Mad Max: Fury Road on a train. By the time the climax arrived in Train to Busan I was

 

Squid Game – Writer is the Winner

Official Trailer: Here, the players get to play a fair game under the same conditions. These people suffered with inequality and discrimination out in the world How do you take a simple children’s game and turn in to a game for adults with deadly consequence? If you win the series of games, you get to win and keep billions of dollars. The setup is designed by rich people to have

 

Freedom Fight – Ringside view on what Freedom means from different perspectives

Official Trailer: So far there are very few anthologies where all the stories worked. After Sillu Karupatti, all the five stories fare better, cross the above average bar, giving something fresh in Freedom Fight. The impact of each story comes out different. Ration and Old Age Home are subtle and leaves the interpretation to the audience. Geethu Unchained conveys the freedom aspect in a straightforward manner, nothing overdone but no

 

Veyilmarangal – Trees under the Sun – A Biting Reality narrated with an excellent craft

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KqZoyBQo7c We would have come across security guards in malls, corporates, gated communities. We would have come across delivery boys. We would have seen cleaners in hotels. We know most of them have moved from other places. Migrants from far away states. Unlike us who migrate to dreamlands for a better living, this segment of population moves out of their native villages to get a job, any job,

 

Vertigo and How I kicked the Aliens Out of My Head

Disclosure: This article also published within the organization I work for. Posted here with permission from organization. Invasion of the Body Snatchers: I still remember it vividly. It all started Sep 1, 2021, early morning. I get up to use the washroom, comeback and lie on the bed. As my head hit the pillow, ceiling started rotating, don’t exactly remember clockwise or anti-clockwise. It lasted for around 10-15 seconds. Got