Ten Heads, yet !!!!

Epics have always been great sources for our film makers indirectly too.'Manavoori Paandavalu', 'Thalapathi', 'Kalyug' and the recent'Raajneethi' are good examp...read more

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Laugh a minute riot!

Spoofs have been a normal happening in Hollywood from the days of 'Airplane', 'Hot shots' and some of Mel Brook's movies..and here too many people have tried in...read more

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The performance that got no claps

T.V.Chandran is one of my favourite directors of Malayalam Cinema. He has given us many brilliant films like ‘Alicinte Anveshanam’, Ponthan Mada’, ‘Ormakalundaa...read more

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A remarkable debut

Apart from the Bengali movies, or more than them, MalayalamIndustry has given more films on Emergency, Naxalism and fake encounters. Andas an irony the neighbou...read more

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The Noose and the Ash

It has taken me six years for reviewing a favourite director's movie, but it is not my fault to see it only yesterday. 'Nizhalkuthu' by Adoor Gopalakrishnan is ...read more

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Aham Brammasmi

'Naan Kadavul' the much awaited film has at last reached the theatres after a long wait by Bala and Ilayaraja fans. In short it narrates the visit of a Aghori S...read more

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The City of Dogs

Indian cities or slums, or rather Mumbai is a much focussed territories for film makers. The gray sides have been already been exploited by film makers like K.A...read more

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The Castle on Air

Literary works from foreign source are rarely made into films here. At least Malayalam movies make such movies in long intervals. We have even seen 'Othello' as...read more

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The flower facing the sun

Rarely Tamil films are made from a literary source, and now we have'Poo', based on a short story by Tamizhselvan, a marxist writer. No, don't expect any revolut...read more

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A Thousand Elephants!

Yes. This is what 'Varanam Ayiram' means, and it is from an ancient verse in Tamil denoting the love of Krishna and Andal. The plot is very small comparing with...read more

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The tale of Betrayals

Tamil Cinema has recently met with mega flops like Kuruvi, Kuselan, Sathyam etc., and like a breeze some small productions have hit the bull's eye.'Subramaniyap...read more

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The sea within

Sunil Gangopadhyay's 'Hirak Deepthi' was the first choice of Satyajit Ray when he decided to film one of the author's works. For reasons known to himself, he sh...read more

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Soft Face Hard Masks

Peter Sellers was one actor who was called as 'The master of disguises'. How can we forget his different roles in 'Soft beds and Hard Battles; where he played a...read more

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Broken bangles in the pond

It is 3 years since a review appeared on this movie by Sureshmehcnit, and only now I had a chance to view this film. Santosh Sivan is always associated with goo...read more

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Fear no evil

'Anjaathe; says the director Mishkin. He is no Eisenstein, but has given a neat and lengthy drama for us to cherish. The plot is of course opt repeated. Decades...read more

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Barber Balan and his friend

'Katha Parayumbol' comes from Srinivasan, the gifted actor/screenplay writer/director. Released this Christmas, the film has an interesting theme and a differen...read more

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Friendship Vs Romance

We have seen many colleges in Indian Cinema, where smoking boys will sit on bikes and eve tease the girls, with stupid teachers and rowdy students loitering her...read more

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Black, white and grey

The new version starring Ajith seems to be much different comparing with the earlier ones. Salim Javed's plot has been thinned down and the red diary is a pen d...read more

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KPN -Sorry, Never again

Generally, I avoid travelling by bus to long destinations. Thanks to the callousness of Indian Railways, I am compelled to travel to Nagerkoil from Coimbatore b...read more

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More agony and less ecstasy

This must be the first time that a film, just after a week or so of its release , has been shown free of cost in 100 theatres this sunday morning across TamilNa...read more

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