tamil movies
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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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An entertaining morality tale that works off an uncommonly intelligent script. Capra and Hirani would be proud.
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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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My friend Praba Ram and I had a lovely discussion about Maharaja, and it brought up a number of interesting points, some of which I felt merited a separate blog post. VERY SPOILERIFIC, so don’t read this unless you’ve watched the film or don’t plan to. First, the dustbin. My first thought was that it
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Nithilan Swaminathan’s Maharaja is a curious film. It does a heck of a lot to earn your admiration, but very little to earn your emotional involvement. It is thanks to a magnificent Vijay Sethupathi performance that the latter quality is not to its detriment.
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A boy is brutally thrust into adulthood when his parents go missing and he has to care for two younger brothers and an infant sister. When you see him as an adult, he appears to be a man whose expends so much energy suppressing his rage against the universe and doing what is required for
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