Rajni
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To paraphrase a line from Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in reverse, Coolie gets plenty right, but not where it counts. Less action, more drama would’ve made this a lovely action-drama.
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A lovely premise and some great ideas are let down by writing that isn’t willing to follow these leads to the dark and wonderful places they could go to.
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Petta functions wonderfully as a supercut of Rajni’s filmography, set to old தமிழ் film music. The Mullum Malarum references abound, obviously – with a name like Kaali, that’s almost a given. One of them comes right at the end and is an absolute beauty. But there are so many others that much of the pleasure
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One of the now-inevitable sideshows that accompany most big releases is the group of people objecting to something in the film and taking their grievance to court. Sometimes it’s religion (Kevin Smith’s irreverent religious comedy Dogma comes to mind), sometimes it’s the depiction of real life personalities (too many to count), sometimes it’s the misrepresentation of government
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There is a long, unbroken take early in Kaala that serves to introduce the eponymous character’s family. It ends with some playful banter between a few characters, after which you get The Song. (You know, the one that’s a paean to The Hero and has been such a staple of big-budget hero-centric Thamizh cinema that,
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Warning: Here be spoilers After a more-or-less obligatory, yet absolutely rousing introduction to its eponymous hero (Rajni pretty much defines the word ‘swag’), Kabali parachutes us into the middle of a plot that has been unfolding for over twenty five years. We hear names of characters, get snatches of dialogue and flashback scenes that tell
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Warning: This post might be a bit NSFW. First, watch this. Then we’ll talk: This post began with an urgent request for my email id from Ganesh Raghuraman in the middle of the night. Since he knew me well enough, I figured that the matter had to be of earth-shattering inconsequence for him to sound so desperate,
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To be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t go in expecting to like Enthiran very much. Somehow, the idea of Shankar making a SciFi movie with Rajni didn’t set my pulse racing the way it might for a whole bunch of other people. Then I saw the robot that the scientist (Rajni) created in his
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I am sure there are a lot of Padaiyappa fans out there. Ditto for Chandramukhi, Kuselan and Sivaji. I even know someone who claims to like Baba — for reasons too numerous to mention, I am disinclined to hold it against him, though. But as far as I am concerned, the last great Rajni movie
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Disclaimer: I haven’t watched Katha Parayumbol. I plan to at the earliest available opportunity. However, I plan to evaluate Kuselan on its own terms. Literally everyone I spoke to who had watched Kuselan told me the same thing: It’s not a Rajni movie. Most of their voices were laced with a tinge of disappointment. Apparently,
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