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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,

Rain never makes you sad

Rain (A poem by Aadya Prasad, V Grade) Image Credit: Wikimedia.org Rain is the best If it rains all night The next day will be Foggy and bright Rainy season is out of this world The way its falling makes my mind swirled The lightning sound is very powerful It can be dreadful Heavy rain is a wonderful sight Go jump in it with all your might Rain never makes

By Rain’s glory you might even become Hypnotic

Rain (A poem by Diya Kiran, VI Grade) Image Credit: Wikicommons Rain is a beautiful part of nature Who knows if it will last till the future There is something enchanting to get drenched in rain When it crawls down from the head till your vein It’s born when two clouds put up a fight Might it be a peculiar sight It fills up thirst for ponds and lakes

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

Bhoothakaalam – A textbook approach on how to generate scares effortlessly

Official Trailer: It is hard to slot Bhoothakaalam into a genre, a horror, or a psychological thriller. Or is it a psychological-drama-horror-thriller? You can infer the title as the past or the ghosts from the past. Like the series The Haunting of Hill House, do the ghosts lurk in their minds or are they really lurking in the shadows of the house. From the first frame, director, Rahul Sadasivan, skillfully

Putham Puthu Kaalai: Vidiyatha – 1 dud, 1 miss, 3 OK types

Official Trailer: How do you make someone to watch the 5-story anthology? Start with one of the worst in the pack. Set the bar low. Then hope relativity kicks in. Even so-so later episodes look better due to the priming by the first one. That is how Putham Puthu Kaalai: Vidiyatha comes across. In first Putham Puthu Kaalai from 2020, stories were set during first wave. This one I think

The Expanse – A Space Opera for the current Times

Official Trailer: Concluding its sixth and final season on Amazon Prime, The Expanse is broadly categorized as a sci-fi TV series adapted from the novels written by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The book series is an expansive space opera, consisting of 9 novels and various related short works. I have always been inclined to space operas ever since I

Fast Cuts – The Power of the Dog, Don’t Look Up

The Power of the Dog: Bronco Henry told me that a man was made by patience and the odds against him Official Trailer: The Power of the Dog falls in the bucket of movies where I fell on the other side of the critics. Critics loved it…but I found the movie a good watch but not on par with director Jane Campion’s earlier outing The Piano (1993). Movie does have

Fast Cuts – Kadaseela Biriyani, Kala

Kadaseela Biriyani: No one can live without fear but what you fear is a choice Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7zJwUFwoxg Kadaseela Biriyani takes an age-old revenge story and narrates it in a unique way, it comes across as fresh, weird, and interesting. Since it breaks the cliches, it does throw us off guard frequently. Three brothers go on a journey to avenge the death of their father. Younger one is forced to

Maanaadu – well-made Time-Loop thriller brilliantly folds the socio-political message into the screenplay

[SPOILERS AHEAD …] Official Trailer: First things first. It is so refreshing to see a Muslim character as a protagonist in a Kollywood movie after a long time. That too as a normal person than someone out to terrorize the public. I guess in the last 3 decades Muslims were shown either as terrorists or stereotyped thanks to Roja and bunch of Vijayakanth and Arjun movies in that phase for