Movie Reviews

                   The maturity with which Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan talks about love and relationships is refreshing. The seemingly conventional story of a love triangle, gets original with its treatment and portrayal of love. With characters constantly oscillating between confusion and complex emotions, Manmarziyaan presents a new and updated look at romance and relationships. It’s unlike any Anurag Kashyap film you’ve seen before. Despite its strengths, this romantic drama might be, at times, a little too mature for the average audience. The film is set in Amritsar, where Rumi (Taapsee) and Vicky's (Kaushal) sex-heavy romance creates a radical contrast to the small-town setting. He jumps from one roof to the other, to sneak into her bedroom. They’re horny as hell and totally into each other. But the apparent and obvious frivolity of their relationship, kicks up a surprise. Commitment issues, immaturity and the folly of exu...

                             Seemaraja marks third collaboration with director Ponram, and compared to their previous films, it shows some ambition – in terms of scale, visuals and mostly importantly, in turning its star into a mass hero. We get to see Sivakarthikeyan getting a ‘mass’ introduction, where he crashes open the gates, and kicks up a storm while beating the bad guys, speaking punch dialogues dressing up like Rama, supporting farmers, and invoking seemingly modest comparisons with Rajinikanth, Vijay and Ajith. We even get a line telling him that he should next plan his political entry. The actor plays Seemaraja, the heir of royal family of Singampatti. But the character is pretty much the same as what we have seen him play so far – an aimless youngster whose only activities are building up his image with sidekick Kanakku (Soori, who gets to showcase his six-pack abs) and people and wooing Sundha...

             Mystery thrillers often rely on its unpredictability to keep the viewers at the edge of their seats. Often filmmakers tend to get so involved with the way they tell their stories that they lose track of the big picture. In  U Turn , director Pawan Kumar pays attention to every detail, however miniscule it may be, but the pace of the film suffers. What starts of as an engaging film turns into a predictable, stretched out fare. The film revolves around Rachana (Samantha Akkineni), an Intern with the Times of India, who investigates traffic violations on RK Puram flyover, where several motorists manually remove a divider to take a U-Turn on the flyover. Before she knows it, Rachana is picked up by the police in the middle of the night and is accused of murder. While the entire police force looks at her as the prime suspect, officer Nayak (Aadi Pinisetty) believes that she’s innocent and hears out. As they investigate the case, t...

Veerababu(Allari Naresh) is a small-time tailor who gets his best friend Suri Babu(Sunil) married to a local dancer(Nandini) just to impress his MLA(Jayaprakash Reddy). This is also the time when Posani and his gang find out that the MLA has all the details about a sum of 500 crores. Rest of the story is as to how Suri Babu, Veerababu and the entire gang gets entangled in this septup and grab the money at last. The first half of the film is good as it has decent comedy. It’s been a long long time since we have seen Sunil in such a good role where he evokes superb comedy. His track of marrying Pushpa generates decent laughs. Sunil gets his comedy timing back and does what people expect from him. Allari Naresh never fails to entertain in all his films and does the same in Silly Fellows as well. His performance is neat and he shares a good chemistry with Sunil. For a change, Brahmanandam’s comedy works in the film as the senior comedian makes his presence felt in a few scenes...

It’s a noisy-little suburb in a big town, a close knit community that stands by each other in the time of need, united by their love for art. Trains pass between two parallel colonies through the day, everyone has an opinion on almost everything that surrounds them- a lot about Kancharapalem is heartwarmingly simple, ordinary and most importantly identifiable. It’s rare for a film to do a commentary on religion, stature, age and love while never stating the obvious, C/O Kancharapalem shows more than it tells and you want to pick up a piece of the place as you leave the film. In a unique Habib Tanvir-like filmmaking experiment where the director Venkatesh Maha predominantly uses local residents as artists for a project, staying with them and telling their story to a wider audience, C/O Kancharapalem may seem another artsy-indie film on paper. However it’s the sincerity, the ability to look at the beauty behind their ordinariness that leaves behind an impact. A manager insisting ...