Ten Reasons Why You Should Skip ‘Anjaan’

A National holiday or festival is the ideal occasion for a big ticket film release. A potential blockbuster with a leading star who can draw in the crowds and make it work, irrespective of how good or bad the film would be, is more than often deemed to be that perfect festival or national holiday release. Over the years, such star vehicles or films have become an indispensable part of the lives of the movie goers.Continue reading “Ten Reasons Why You Should Skip ‘Anjaan’”

Kumki Movie Review: Why despite its shortcomings it is a cinematic achievement to be proud of

Disclaimer: I have not even seen a scene from Mynaa, the Director’s much acclaimed previous outing. So this review is bereft of biases or expectations resulting from the same.

Thirupathi Brothers’ produced, Studio Green distributed Kumki has built up humongous expectations thanks to aggressive promotions involving catchy collateral all over, hit songs on FM stations and the internet for a few months now and of course being the launch vehicle of Vikram Prabhu, the next scion of the Nadigar Thilagam dynasty. If all of this was not enough, it has to live up to the reputation of Prabhu Solomon’s Mynaa.Continue reading “Kumki Movie Review: Why despite its shortcomings it is a cinematic achievement to be proud of”

Vettai Movie Review: Brothers who bang

Festival season usually leads to celebration time at movies too and as Makar Sankranti falls on 14th of Jan every year, Tamil & Telugu cinema lines up blockbuster releases meant to entertain. But my point of going to this film had nothing to do with celebrations. Infact being a hardcore Indian cricket fan I was looking forward to a break free route amongst the riot in Australia and with no worthy Hindi movies to hang around this weekend, Vettai seemed like an escapist fare to subside the pain.Continue reading “Vettai Movie Review: Brothers who bang”

Trailer of Vettai

N.Linguswamy has been one of the more prolific Tamil filmmakers of late.He has been known to work on commercial films with both established stars like Madhavan,Mammootty, Ajith, Vikram and also with the younger stars climbing up the ladder like Vishal and Karthi. Except for Ji and Bheema all his other films ( Anandham,Run,Sandakozhi, Paiyya ) have also done well commercially. In 2007 along with his brother N.Subhash Chandra Bose, Linguswamy floated his own production house- Thirupathi Brothers.Continue reading “Trailer of Vettai”