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 ...

Pedro Almodóvar adores women. In no other film of his is this reverence for the female gender more evident than in Volver (2006). An ode to female resilience, Almodóvar's film explores the inner and ...

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 ...

All We Imagine As Light is an evocative, stirring portrait of Mumbai and its people – especially immigrants. Payal Kapadia, making her feature debut, tells the story of two Malayali nurses – Prabha, ...

Writer and Director: Nithilan Swaminathan Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Anurag Kashyap, Abhirami, Mamta Mohandas Duration: 150 mins Available in: Theatres Vijay Sethupathi ’s Maharaja is a film that follows ...

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 ...

But the biggest problem with Aranmanai 4 is still not all of these obvious templates. It lies in its temptations to needlessly glorify the lengths a mother will go to protect her children. While the ...

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 ...

Shooting in narrow, congested spaces is quite difficult, Shehnad admits. “There’s a lot of hard work involved. My team had to work standing in knee-deep water for most of the day. Yet it helps convey ...

The filmmaker also adds to the characters psyche and internal life. “He is the sort of man who would make the woman apologize to him for his own mistake. So that was the kind of thinking behind his ...

An Unwitting Parody A parallel thread looks at the alleged mastermind of the racket. He speaks in a sing-song voice and ‘performs’ in an office whose whereabouts are supposed to be a mystery. There’s ...

Anil Ravipudi is no stranger to success, but Bhagavanth Kesari and its success are special, he says. "Box office hits always make me happy but this film brought special applause and respect my way.