Official Trailer: Dada is a good example of how a regular family drama that has been told many times can be elevated by fresh writing. It breaks the conventional approach and takes a different route than what we expect. Dada works most of the time except for the portions in the IT office where the director seems to have taken the easy way out till it redeems itself with the
Official Trailer: Ayali will ace the Bechtel test hands down. While we had movies that centered around women characters, like TGIK or Gargi, Ayali may be the first regional series where the story revolves around women characters, focusing on women’s issues and empowerment. The topic they have picked up is the biases and prejudices women face around Menstruation. A big applause to the writing team and the director for handling
Official Trailer: Vaarisu is as cliched as it can get. There is nothing wrong in making a cliched movie. Formulaic movie can be made interesting with a fresh approach and angle. All it takes is spend some energy in writing. Love stories have been there from the time images started moving on the screen. Still, we get engaging love stories like Alai Payuthe, VTV, Thiruchittrambalam, La La Land. Guess the
Official Trailer: Sembi has multiple interesting threads. Anbu the bus, represents a microcosm of the society. Passengers of the bus are from different segments of the society. Along with their value system and perceptions (of others). Then we have the lawyer character thrown into the mix of passengers who plays the catalyst role. Like a catalyst can he brings in the change in the behavior of the passengers in Anbu.
Growing up, till certain age I didn’t pay attention to playback singers. Rather I believed the actors sang the songs. Thanks to Puthiya Varpugal which made me realize there is something called dubbing voice and playback singers. Only then I realized Pongum Kagalosai one of my favorite songs from Meenava Nanban (1977) is sung by Vani Jayaram. From then onwards, I started paying attention to the singers. We had many
Two movies, The Menu and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, with similar structure. In both bunch of people get together in a remote place by special invitation. Chosen bunch. For a weekend retreat in a rich person’s island in Glass Onion. In The Menu to have a specially designed meal by a world-famous Chef ($1250 per person) in an island. Commonality doesn’t end there. rich people get roasted in
A movie comes with a new template, well received and that sets a trend for similar movies. Most of the times it is not the movie we wish. A movie like Kadaisi Vivasayi or Aandavan Kattalai doesn’t set a trend even though those two are well made cinemas. But a successful Kanchana opens the door for similar ghost / supernatural movies that falls under comedy-horror genre, but horror-torture for the
Official Trailer: Athena is all about how the lives of three French siblings of Algerian descent plunge into chaos when their younger brother gets killed by the police under unclear circumstances. Friends and families want to know the identity of the police officers who killed the boy. Police claim the boy is killed by far-right members masquerading as cops. The pain of the loss along with underlying racism, police brutality,
Wonder Women: Highly restrained and packed with emotions Official Trailer: Anjali Menon has pulled off a casting coup in Wonder Women. What else one can say about Nadia Moidu, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Nithya Menen, Padmapriya, Sayanora Philip, Archana Padmini, and Amruta Subhash in the same movie? All we need is a simple plot to watch these talented actors on screen. We get more than that in Wonder Women, a feel-good film
Official Trailer: The good news is you don’t have to have read the book to enjoy the movie. I haven’t read the book (yes, one of those few from TN who haven’t read the magnum opus…a traitor 😀) but I am able to follow Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 (PS1) even with its many characters. In the case of Godfather, I felt the movie was better than the book (book is