Every now and then a film that releases that comes as a whiff of fresh air, driving away the heady smells of masala for a few moments. And that film inevitably comes from our western neighbour. Nna Thaan Case Kodu’ (If so, sue me) by Kunchacko Boban takes up an everyday difficulty and expands...
Romance is passé among the current generation, it is said. The hostility to saccharine sweet romance is so much that even if romantic love is one among the elements in a film, it is dubbed a romance movie. Hanu Raghavapudi’s Sita Ramam seeks to buck this trend by telling a classical love story...
Legend Saravanan has realized the dream that every actor has -- becoming a mass hero. The mass hero is a status in Tamil films. His journey in the film world depends on how successful he is in reaching that goal. The adulation the mass action hero gets from fans is what actors pine for. But for...
In the game of chess, even small people can become very big. This dialogue in the film, Queen of Katwe, directed by Mira Nair, probably captures the essence of the movie. It also captures the essence of the allure the game has for chess enthusiasts across the world. Queen of Katwe tells the...
The story of Sudha Kongara is one of failure feeding into slow progress and eventual success. In the movie industry, some hit the jackpot with their first movie and keep piling up on the success, not Sudha. The misery of failures was her terrain for a while that could have led to losing hope...
Only a few film stars have truly reflected the pretty-next-door girl. Savitri in the 60s, Sharadha in the 70s, Shoba, Suhasini, Revati, Archana in the 80s, Suvalakshmi in the end of 90s, and Anjali in 2000s are a handful. Every fan has a list like this in their mind. A few recent ones are...
The film industry is where one hears the following phrases frequently: Different, Rare, Achievement, Impossible and heights of imagination. But rarely do we come across a movie that gives meaning to these words. The film Iravin Nizhal, written, acted and directed by Radhakrishnan Parthiban, is...
On July 15 morning as I was browsing my Facebook pages, I stopped dead at condolence posts on actor-cum-director Pratap Pothen. Though neither directly associated with him, nor his passionate fan, I felt my chest puffing with sorrow for a while the way we do at the death of a good man. The...
One thing that Rocketry certainly does is to show that just like the movie’s theme, the image or what is initially thought to be true is rarely ever so. The image of Madhavan as an aging chocolate-boy – the 50+ boy known as Maddy – is not the entire truth. Directed and written by Maddy turned R...
The USP of Maamanithan was that llaiyaraja, Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja were going to collaborate in it. Then it got reduced to Ilaiyaraja and Yuvan and that Yuvan was going to produce the film. The shooting was finished in 37 days but the release was postponed several times over three...
