Jithu Madhavan fully understands the excitement this thin plot can generate and instead of zooming past this idea to get to the “story”, he fills up the first half with some of the most random moments ...

In the midst of the pandemic, the Chhattisgarh police in Raigarh decided the best way to encourage public safety measures was to use Bollywood film dialogues in their posters, re-interpreting Bachchan ...

Premalu ’s biggest LOL moment takes place when the romance tries to address the biggest problem we see with its predecessors. In a clever bit of self-referentiality, it acknowledges its protagonist’s ...

Gaami places the viewing experience above ‘telling a story’. It’s a simple story but with a complex edit pattern that often creates some restless moments, in both good and bad ways. The film follows ...

Some of these examples will probably be contested—Sai Rajesh, the writer-director of Baby has stated that he condemns the misogynistic reactions elicited by his film, for instance. With many films the ...

Karthik Subbaraj's Most Political Work So Far Santhosh Narayanan and Subbaraj go back more than a decade, but it is in Jigarthanda DoubleX that their collaboration feels the most raw and personal.

The thing to note about DSP Theeran (Karthi), the protagonist of H Vinoth's Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (Theeran – Chapter One), is that he's a realistic cop — at least to the extent that a big-budget ...

Neru wastes no time in showing us where its focus lies. Even if it tells us the story of Sara, a visually-impaired youngster who is raped at her own house, it doesn’t dwell too much on the actual ...

To call Mani Ratnam a mainstream filmmaker is a bit redundant, because every (primarily) Tamil filmmaker is a mainstream filmmaker: Tamil cinema does not have an "art film" tradition, the way ...

The biggest surprise in the film, however, is how tightly the narrative flows to keep us on the edge of our seats— all just to see who gets to park their vehicle at home on time! Editor Philomin Raj ...

In a year when I’m complaining about the avalanche of mediocre offerings, K-dramaland also produced one of the best epic historical dramas of the last decade. Based during the brutal invasion of Korea ...

Director: Arun Gopy Writer: Udaykrishna Cast: Dileep, Tamannaah Bhatia, Mamta Mohandas, Dino Morea, Lena Available in: Theatres Duration: 150 minutes Unlike other Malayalam films that cast North ...