Official Trailer: [SPOILERS AHEAD] Dileesh Pothan’s movie starts with a note that Joji is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. While knowing the original story may make it interesting trying to map the characters, you don’t necessarily have to know the original play to appreciate Joji. P.K.Kuttappan, a rubber estate owner, is a strong person (physically too). As the head of the family, he controls and manages the family including
Disclosure: This article (with few edits) also published within the organization I work for. Posted here with permission from organization The Great Indian Kitchen is a Malayalam language movie released 15th Jan 2021 on NeeStream, a Malayalam OTT platform, with subtitles. Official Trailer: Watching The Great Indian Kitchen (TGIK) is an experience in itself. There are movies, well-made ones, that talk about social issues in a hard-hitting way. They do
Official Trailer: Master has lots of things going for it…Vijay, and Vijay Sethupathy for one. Then Lokesh Kanagaraj who has created a name for himself with engaging Mahanagaram, a superb hyperlink story, and Kaithi, a Die hard and Rambo rolled in to one. Vaathi coming and Kutti story has been on the charts for sometime now. Prelude with intro of the villain Bhavani made me smile. Bhavani gets a super
Official Trailer: Take a serious social issue and use it as a star vehicle, to sell the star, this has become a Kollywood trademark. In the process, nuance, and logic goes out the window. Insult the victims (of the issue) and the audience. I guess this trend started with Gentleman. We have seen it in so many movies in last 2 decades including Kaththi, Sivaji, Sarkar, and now we get
Official Trailer: Thanks to COVID, had to settle for muted new year get together and celebrations. I was given the task to pick a movie to end 2020 and welcome 2021 with. Key criteria for the selection – it has to leave us with a high and in an upbeat mood. So, Paava Kadhaigal type movies are ruled out. One can always settle for safe list, movies from watched and
Official Trailer: First season of Paava Kadhaigal from Netflix is out and has four episodes. First season explores the subject of honor. Family honor. Common theme in all the four episodes is that women bear the pressure of upholding the honor of the family. Or is it their bodies? As the mother from Vaanmagal episode says to her daughter your body is like temple. You need to protect it. If
Official Trailer: After watching the movie what stood out for me was Sundari’s character, from here onwards referred as Soori. While the story is about Sooran, genuinely heartening to see the effort that has gone in to give equal weightage to Soori’s role. A woman with a dream, a career ambition. A woman of conviction. Yes, we see them around us, in our family, in our work place, and in
Official Movie Trailer: Mookthi Amman from RJ Balaji starts well, first 30-40mts of the movie worked effectively to setup the premise. We get introduced to Engels Ramasamy (get the drift?) and his family, mother, 3 sisters, and grandfather. Family struggles to make their ends meet and life hasn’t been good to them. Sample these: father has run away, gap between Engels and his last sister is 16 years, education stopped
25 years of Kuruthipunal: A taut police thriller from Kamal, Arjun, and P.C. Sriram. Those who went in expecting a typical police thriller were in for a rude shock. Kuruthipunal, when it came out, was completely different from a usual police story movie from Kollywood heroes including Kamal and Arjun. With its hard to swallow realistic portrayal Kuruthipunal stands apart from movies that came before or after that where the
“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.” — Akira Kurosawa Official Trailer: In the words of Richard Feynman: “From a long view of the history of mankind – seen from, say, ten thousand years from now – there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery of the