Natchathiram Nagargirathu – a finely crafted cinema

Official Trailer: To quote Sujatha from his novel Pirivom Santhipom, Love is nature’s way of ensuring pregnancy. Call it love or lust (people don’t fall in love at first sight they fall in lust), since it is driven by nature one may think it must be easy to get attracted to someone opposite to you. Opposite here doesn’t mean opposite gender but the person in front of you, could be

 

Gargi – It is not what you know, but what you can prove

Official Trailer: Gargi and Jana Gana Mana has similar threads, searching for truth in a pile of different viewpoints, and mobs vying for blood. While I found both movies to be engaging with their narration and screenplay, Gargi has an edge over Jana Gana Mana, comes out ahead with its realistic portrayal, avoids melodrama, and a better cinema with an engaging and gripping screenplay. Our perspectives are driven by emotion

 

Victim: Who is next? – One hit, another close to target, and two disappoint

Official Trailer: Other than Paava Kathaigal I am yet to see a Tamil anthology series where the different stories from different directors come together with some connection to the title theme. In Victim: Who is next, anthology series on Netflix, we have four episodes narrated by directors Pa.Ranjith, Chimbudevan, M.Rajesh, and Venkat Prabhu. Victim also ends up in the bucket of missed opportunities. Dhammam by Ranjith has a simple plot

 

Old – Ageing isn’t fun!!

Official Trailer: We all are familiar with Time Travel paradox where one of the twins travels to a distance star at the speed of light and when he returns his twin brother has aged more than him. Time and ageing are an interesting premise to play around with and the writers are limited only by their imagination. In the hands of good directors, what is on paper gets staged beautifully

 

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