Thamizh padam
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There are a few song sequences, especially an item number, that prove to be an unwelcome distraction. The first thirty minutes could do with some editing. The comedy track doesn’t really tickle the funny bone. The aforementioned flaws are the only ones I can think of. Outside of that, Polladhavan is just about perfect. The
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Warning: Here be spoilers A long time ago, a director named Vasanth, best known until then for romances like Keladi Kanmani, made a thriller called Aasai. It starred Prakash Raj (in a stunning breakout role) as a psychotic man who kills his wife so he could marry her sister. There was, of course, a conventional
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Despite its dismal box office performance, I thought Dum Dum Dum was a fairly well-crafted romantic comedy. It did have a slightly tedious second half, and the big conflict between the parental units seemed a little implausible, but I found it much better than the other Madhavan movie that came around the same time and
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Run was the movie that allowed Madhavan to break away from his romantic hero image and play an action hero. For the first half hour or so, you don’t even realize it: all you see is him chasing Meera Jasmine around, singing songs and doing his usual shtick. Then comes the scene in the subway,
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In some ways, this was a movie just waiting to be made. Shankar is a director with a proven ability to create box office magic with movies involving middle-class supermen fighting corruption. Rajni is a star who has made a career out of playing such roles. The only question that remains is: do we get
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In the beginning, there was Rajnikanth the actor. He wasn’t the best actor anyone had ever seen, but he was quite okay. His biggest gift was an undeniable screen presence. The man had style to burn, and it shone through even when he had a bit of a paunch, a leather belt that could hide
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Deewar is, in my opinion, the movie that features the best Amitabh Bachchan performance of all time. It is not that he did not do a better job in any movie before or since – a number of movies come to mind where his performance has been fantastic. But the sort of raw intensity he
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Prakash Raj’s Duet Films has been making some fairly interesting films. There was Azhagiya Theeye, which I regard as one of the best romantic comedies ever made in Tamil. Then there was Kanda Naal Mudhal which was nearly as good. And now Mozhi, a movie about a man’s love for a woman who is deaf
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Duet is not the best film K. Balachander has made. A remake of Cyrano de Bergerac, with assorted additional nonsense and a dash of Alibaba thrown in for good measure, the movie never really manages to get itself out of the way and reach the heights it could. It is, however, one of the most
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