With his Hindi-Tamil bilingual Chandralekha/Chandraleka (1948), SS Vasan successfully expanded his market from South India to a pan Indian one. …
Power
The best thing about any brazenly forthright commercial film where the star is the protagonist, the script, the dialogue, the …
Shankhachil
Shankhachil is a story of the physical and emotional journey of a family along the Indo-Bangladesh border and is also a …
Fan
The idea of a movie superstar tormented by a fanatic fan who happens to be his lookalike plays out like something …
Theri
Theri, as expected, is standard formulaic fare that is a glowing ode to its star and little else. Films with …
Ozhivu Divasathe Kali
In one of his poems, Ayyappa Panicker paraphrases Sri Narayana Guru, the great social reformer of Kerala, “Don’t tell caste, …
The Jungle Book
With Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg changed the idea of the role that CGI and VFX could play in a mainstream …
Ghare Baire
In 1905, pursuing the colonial policy of Divide and Rule, Lord Curzon, the then-Viceroy of India, proposed the splitting up …
Ki & Ka
Ki & Ka looks at a couple where the man, Kabir (Arjun Kapoor), decides to stay at home and be …
Naam Poribortito
The high incidence of casteist rape, incestuous rape, marital rape and communal rape in India against the backdrop of a …