Movie Reviews

Vishnu (Raj Tarun) is the one and only son of a doting mother, played by Sitara,  A working man, boozing with his friend (played by Priyadarshi) is his favourite past time.  His mother is his world. When he sees Keerthy (Chitra Shukla) at a marriage, it's love at first sight for Vishnu.  He woos her, so does his mother on behalf of her one and only son.  When Keerthy is on the verge of reciprocating love to Vishnu, tragedy strikes the latter in the form of his mother's sudden demise. Life seems to end for him for the next 10 minutes of the movie.  This is when Keerthy says sorry and I love you in the same scene.  Vishnu immediately regains his naughty smile. But, alas, another tragedy, this time mental, strikes the hero in in the form of Keerthy.  What is it and what consequences does it lead to?  That's the crux of the second half. Analysis: It's not known how many times the film's writer watched 'Bommarillu' and 'Mahanubhavudu'....

THAANAA SERNDHA KOOTTAM REVIEW: Taking the core plot of Neeraj Pandey's Special 26, a solid caper, Vignesh ShivN has come up with a heist film that is playful for the most parts, but gets message-heavy in the end. He has also carried over the music video sensibility of his Naanum Rowdydhaan and this style injects playfulness and lightness to the narrative of TSK in the first half. The film revolves around Iniyan (Suriya, looking bright, and full of charm) who aspires to work in the CBI, but has his - and his father's (Thambi Ramaiah) - dream shattered by Uthaman (Suresh Menon, with the voice of Gautham Menon) a corrupt officer. He assembles a team of people (Ramya Krishnan, Senthil, Sathyan and Shivashankar) who have been thwarted by the system and they begin to raid the corrupt posing as CBI officers. Thaanaa Serndha Koottam works wonderfully well as long as it stays closer to the plot of Special 26, and the changes are superficial - restricted to the backgrounds and...

SYNOPSIS: The fate of four friends, who work at a garage, witnesses drastic changes after they lock horns with a dreaded gangster in town. REVIEW: Jeeva aka Sketch (Vikram) is the go-to guy in a north Madras-based garage run by Settu (Hareesh Peradi). He is also in charge for seizing the vehicles of loan defaulters. It was when Durai (Aruldoss), who was once the reliable guy of Settu, got injured that Sketch, the former's nephew, replaced him. Ravi (RK Suresh), who was once Durai's aide, isn't happy with Settu for making Sketch his right hand. An uneducated person, Sketch has a family which includes father, mother and a younger brother, and he loves to spend his time in the garage with his three friends — Kumar, Bhaskar and Guna. One day, while he and his friends are seizing a vehicle, he happens to meet Ammu (Tamannaah), whom he falls in love with. His initial attempts to impress her misfires, though he succeeds over time. Meanwhile, Shaktivel (Abhishek), a ne...

Gulaebaghavali: Humour in the driver's seat Infusing comedy into heist/treasure hunt stories is a beaten trope as much as comedy in horror. Splash it up with a few 'aha' moments, a non-saleable romance and an ensemble cast that only comes off half-convincing in their characters, you get 'Gulaebhagavali'. The intentions are good (at the cost of weak logic), no fussing there: because the idea is to give a palatable film that has you smiling wide throughout. We are okay with it but also not really, as we nod our heads in a worried consolation. This is not arthouse, but a full-fledged commercial potboiler that takes you for a roller coaster laugh riot- so you think. 'Gulaebhagavali' is filled with bland conmen branded by decent aspirations. But given the chance, they would want a piece of the big pie too. Such an ensemble is after a treasure chest buried in a temple site in Gulaebhagavali (another 'aha' moment why the film’s fairly tongue-twis...

The youth-oriented Malayalam drama film, Queen has finally released today i.e. January 12, 2018. Dijo Jose Antony is the director of the film who has made Saniya Iyyapan, the leading actress do all that the script demanded. Under the banner of Arabian dreams entertainments, the film is produced by Shibu K Moideen and  Rinshad Vellodathil. The female-centric film, Queen, is a story of a girl, who becomes the love of all the boys in the first Mechanical batch, a stream which hardly has girls of the engineering campus. The only girl in the batch makes her the center of attraction for the students in the college as well as the professors and the teachers. Later, becoming the queen of the batch starts the love triangle in the film. the film’s attraction is the female growth in the field the Mechanical stream.The other prominent cast of the film is Vijayraghavan, Dhruvan, Arun KV and Niyas Backer, who have all donned the hats of excellence in their performances. The key element ...