Eeram [ 2009 ] – Suspense thriller Music : S Thaman [ Remember the stout drummer in Boys ] Written & directed : Arivazhagan Producer : Shankar Plot : The film starts with a death scene of Ramya in a big apartment complex, which is identified by water leakage.Read More →
Yutham sei and Mouna guru are good cop thrillers in this year. Can you spot the other similarity ? When I was coming out after watching a crap movie, a guy was asking his friend — Machaan.. What was the last good film we watched ?! Do you know the basicRead More →
It was like after watching Pudhupettai in Bangalore PVR and thinking much about the content/making of the film in the late hours. I felt the same after watching Adukalam [ AK ]. Also, it once again proved my choice of films based on Director and not based on actorsRead More →
Maaveeran The tamil version of Magadheera has run equally well in the context of a telugu dubbing film. This once again proves the power of a good film. The good outcome is that this film is saved from a Tamil remake. Remakes and sequels will come out good in veryRead More →
Unnaip pol oruvan. There are 2 possible crowds watching this movie- one which has watched the Hindi movie ‘A Wednesday’ and the other one have no idea about the Hindi film and watching this Tamil version.I belong to the first type. Raajkamal films has produced this kind of songless policeRead More →
Reel Classics – Mullum Malarum [ 1978 ]. World cinema need not necessarily be an Iranian, Spanish, Chinese or a Japanese movie. We do have the best in Tamil. For any art, it is more essential to note the time it is shared to public. If Jayakanthan had written theRead More →
Kanthasamy Tamil bloggers praised the movie Nadodigal,Pasanga blindly. I had checked the same in theatre and was disappointed as they were just average movies. Similarly, for Kanthaswamy – I prepared myself to watch this movie without much interest, in a theatre. Surprisingly, the movie was not as bad as itRead More →
Reel rewind – Classics series. It was a bright Sunday afternoon in the early 90s..[ கதை சொல்ராறாமாம் 🙂 ] In Doordarshan, after the 1.15PM news for challenged, I was waiting for the national award movie [ Even the newspaper TV schedule shows just as regional film without the title –Read More →
நம்முடைய கதைக்களம் பிரபல நடிகர்களை விடுத்து, நகரத்தின் பிரம்மாண்டம் விடுத்து வாழ்க்கையின் எதார்த்தம் தேடிப் போகும்போது தான் தமிழின் அசலான திரைப்படம் தோன்றும். - “பேசும் படம்” செழியன். None of the 5 star hotels will be able to reproduce the simple irani chai what we have in a simple tea stall [ புத்தி போகுதா பாரு ]. Similarly,Read More →
I remember once, ‘Pudhiya kalacharam’ came up an article with the heading ‘காதல் படங்கள்.. கவலைப்படு சகோதரா !’ – the period where ‘Kaadhal kotai’ started a trend of ‘Kaadhal’ films. I have been watching since the early TRajendar peak periods – whenever a character talks about love/friendship to the 4thwall [Read More →