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
Official Trailer: First five minutes set the tone for the movie, Neil Armstrong piloting a rocket powered aircraft in the stratosphere and after reaching 140000 feet he can’t get control of the aircraft to descend. It goes in to upward drift, what NASA calls “Ballooning”. With not enough atmosphere for flight controls to bite into, he couldn’t turn. After few dreadful minutes, he regains the control and lands to safety.
With a mix of continuous and on/off lockdowns, WFH (Work From Home) one worthy thing happened is more time for family, work, books, movies, and friends (video chats), not necessarily in that order. Yes, there is frustration and gloomy feeling that hits observing the happenings near and around us, lack of state capacity, and leaders continuing with their politics and optics even in these times when millions of people are
If you are from 70s & 80s movie goers, you would remember few single screen big theatres had the ritual of raising the screen curtain when the movie is about to start. Usually red curtain that will raise to the theme music of For a Few Dollars More (FFDM). Of course, I didn’t know nothing about FFDM or Ennio Morricone that time. Saw The Mission movie in Chennai 85/86, liked
Official trailer: Imagine this. You have a storyline that looks interesting and good. Core conflict is gripping. You are given a bunch of good actors, well established names in the field, Parthiban, Bhagyaraj, Prathap Pothan, Thiagarajan, and Pandiarajan. Plus, Jyotika who gives the star value and pull factor. You have seen Few good Men, impressed by its court scenes and key plot points, want to use it in the movie