Thamizh padam
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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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The amazing thing about Sigappu Rojakkal is that it doesn’t play like a thriller, although a two line synopsis of the plot will make it seem like one. The movie is about a man named Dileep (Kamalhassan) who seduces willing women and then kills them, while secretly filming all of it. He falls in love
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I was talking to a friend yesterday about Kamalhassan. Mostly, I was trying to express why the man doesn’t do it for me anymore. Aside: This is a pre-Dasavatharam post. I figure I’ll see the movie someday, but this analysis does not account for this latest data point. Then again, I do statistics for a
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On the way back from the multiplex, I spent a considerable length of time trying to figure out what to put in my review of Kuruvi. I came up with nothing. I could claim that the movie was beyond even my capacity to describe it, but that would be dishonest. Truth: I just ran out
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Much of the reason why we love good masala movies is their ability to surprise and delight us while still telling the same old story over and over again. In this respect, the last big fight sequence in Dhool ranks among the most delightful. It is not surprising for the hero to bash up a
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Most people would agree that Bharathiraja was one of Tamil cinema’s foremost directors in the late seventies and eighties, along with K. Balachander and Mani Rathnam. But where KB and Mani brought an urban sensibility and sophistication to Tamil cinema, Bharathiraja reinvented the village on celluloid. He epitomized earthiness. The acting in many of his
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Dear Myshkin, This is a line. On one side of this line is a hard-hitting movie about two friends, one who wants to be a cop and another who becomes one. And how their paths slowly diverge until they are on opposite sides of a loaded gun. And a serial rapist and kidnapper who stands
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No, I still don’t like Himes-bhai‘s voice. Although I will admit that the occasional Mika number works for me – Mauja Hi Mauja from Jab We Met being an example. This post is mostly about A. R. Rehman. Not his singing voice (which I’m not very fond of but works well for some songs), but
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Pri’s latest blog post speaks of someone reaching her site after googling “when old tulsi will come back“. Quite naturally, this begs the question: why would someone want to know that? Pri’s rant on the topic: can you believe such people exist? i mean clearly this person has access to the internet. the wonderful genius
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As of now, I have watched three of the four major Tamil movies released on Deepavali. The two big ones that got all the media attention prior to release were Vijay’s Azhagiya Thamizhmagan and Surya’s Vel. Incidentally, both had the heroes in double roles. Incidentally, both sucked. As it turned out, one helping of Dhanush
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