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Aachar & Co (2023)
Perfect!
A movie which runs for only 105 minutes can elicit so much nostalgia is something I never believed possible!
The brains behind this movie making amazes movie. If we clear the familiar sights, we can see they managed to elicit the nostalgia without resorting to much props or great sets to reproduce the old Bangalore! All they did was to take the movie in a rural place with minimal boards naming the different Bangalore areas! And.. it worked!
The film is pretty magical in the sense that it sticks to the core plot and does not digress much. But also in the process shows the changes happened to the lives of middle class families in Bangalore over time!
Kudos to Sindu Sreenivasamurthy for the wonderful direction and all the actors for playing their parts well!
Really heartwarming to watch!
Raayan (2024)
what the hell was that?
The movie started with many cliche scenes. But was steadily moving towards something big. As the movie was steadily moving, I was hanging on to it anticipating a huge ending despite not so warm depiction of love between siblings. Many more movies have done this very well.
And then came the turning point! Rivalry between the brothers. There was absolutely no depth and no logic behind this. It was so stupid when the supposed flash back attempted to justify that! The poor music during the flashback only added comic relief to that robbing of any serious attempt left!
The acting performance of all the actors were exemplary. The rating was for that. Dhanush played his role well and Selvaragavan knows his strengths and played to it. SJ Surya does not seem to age at all!
Dhanush is a nice actor. He should stick to acting!
The Goat Life (2024)
too hyped!
The movie started with much promise but fails to deliver.
Najeeb is smuggled to grace goats without pay. But one fundamental question I had is, why is he even taking the goats out? There is no grass anywhere around to feed. Goats are not dogs which you will have to walk everyday!
The flashback was too long and distracting. Much justification was not shown on why Najeeb would leave that life.
The movie is titled as a true story. But no reference to the real Najeeb was made in the end of the movie. Not sure what happened to him! The movie loses credibility that way and so a question on why Hakeem should even be killed if it is not a true reflection of what happened!
As for as the music, nothing to write about!
Much hyped movie!
Maharaja (2024)
Pure delight!
The movie is a pure delight to watch from the get go! Some of the really nice acting are from Singampuli, Natraj and Abhirami.
The hero character fits into Vijay Sethupathy and so gives a feeling of a good acting! Hats off to his movie picking style!
As for as Anurag kashyap, not too different from the earlier movie he made in tamil, imaikkaa nodigal. But did a good job in the Climax!
May be a comeback movie for Manigandan from Boys.
Music was apt. Just perfect!
A very very clever movie and loved the way the director took the audience into confidence revealing just enough details so that the audience can to fill the missing gaps and feel gratified doing so!
Just loved the movie! Great pick, Netflix!
Bandish Bandits (2020)
Half Baked!
I am disappointed watching this web series.
They had a nice thing going as for as the music is concerned. They brought in an out and out shallow heroine character. She was so late to realize that she did not have any talent at episode 9. We had to endure her terrible performance till then! On top of it is the Shreya Choudhury performance. It was cheesy at best peppered with cliche'
The character of Pandit is written to portray him more as a villain than the musician / Guru he is supposed to be. The character is so flawed that even Nasrudin Shah performance cannot lift it!
The character of Digvijay has all the reasons for that to be the hero of the show. You almost feel sorry for seeing him lose which might not be the intention of the director! Atul Kulkarni gives a stellar performance in this role!
Radhe's character is another ill conceived one. He is fine compromising anything! His infatuation with the heroine is skin deep and you almost feel sorry for him
Radhe's father character is another flawed one. No mention on why is not being employed.
Radhe's mother character is perhaps the biggest let down. She assumes the position of the Guru in the end. But gets no respect for being one even after Radhe wins the competition! Add to that there is no single scene of her teaching the music to his son! So much for the musical show!
Now the overall premise. So much is talked about the kangan. In the end, they just totally ignore that! With so much muck thrown at Panditji, the very 'fight' for bikaner gharana vs rathore gharana seems totally meaningless.
If the intention of the series is to show that ' No need to be awe for the hindusthani musicians. They are as flawed as you and me if not more flawed! All the importance given to kangan / guru - shishya / gharana .. are all superficial and fake' , they succeeded!
The three stars is for the hindusthani music, great costumes, stellar performances of Ritwik / Naseeruddin Shah / Atul Kulkarni !
Poacher (2023)
one of the finest!
There are so many web series from India which could not live up so much hype. This one is a pleasant surprise! Very powerful performances from the cast. Gripping story line from start to finish. No loose ends. Cleanly tied the pieces. Breath of hope seeing so many sincere officers trying and succeeding in doing the right thing. The series stands out in that it is able to convey the human element, sentimental bonding with the animals. Highly recommended for the completely original and well executed web series! Nimisha Sajayan did an excellent job fully deserving awards! Other casts such as Dibyendu Bhattacharya and Roshan. Mathew leave their mark. Has ample potential for season 2. Looking forward to it!
Thundu (2024)
one hell of a bad movie!
This is one of the really bad movies out there. Save your time and watch anything else. Even though watching the paint dry can be boring, at the least it will not fill you with crap like this movie does! What are they even trying to convey? Cheating is okay? If you do not know how to do it, you can ask your kid? So you really cannot ask your child not to cheat as they actually help you cheat?
Out and out a bad movie! Looking at Biju Menon in the cast list, watched this movie and hoping that the father is going to put some good thoughts to the son. But no! The father actually chooses to take the help of the son to pass the exam!
Save yourself and avoid the movie as plague!
Aadama Jaichomada (2014)
Highly underrated movie!
This is an excellent comedy movie! The brilliance of the director shines so many times throughout the movie. The characters are well defined and they stick to the narrative perfectly. The casting is awesome! The song lyrics are hilarious. The actors do an awesome job fully justifying their selection.
The heroines obsession with having an exclusive bathroom for themselves is so real and in the end all the Good people get fully rewarded and the bad people lose.
This movie can provide such a nice comic relief! The rating in IMDB is totally misleading. The movie deserves a far higher rating!
Do not miss the movie!
CBI 5 (2022)
Gave one star as zero star option is not there!
The movie ran for close to 3 hours. The director did not have any hesitation to bringing in newer characters as close to 15 minutes before the ending!
For a while, it appeared that the story was good but the direction was poor as the director took many attempts to explain the same thing. But as the movie proceeded, it was clear that the story was crap too!
It was such a waste of time! And waste of money for the producer as there are so many characters and many of them are good actors caught in a poor movie! This included Mammooty who probably took the role as an extension of a good character!
The movie is so bad!
Por Thozhil (2023)
A perfect thriller!
What a movie!
A very very few tamil movies can be compared to this movie. A very pleasant surprise on the details shown throughout the movie is a breath of fresh air!
The movie is slick. The story travels in a straight line. Whenever you think that a particular route the movie is taking is illogical, the main characters come to the same conclusion and retread their steps and change course. This is brilliant. I love the movie when the director thinks that the viewers are smart too!
Sarath Kumar did an absolutely justification to the role. Same is true with Ashok Selvan. The cast is perfect!
One of the finest thrillers I have watched in a long time! Highly recommended!
Thanks to Director Vignesh Raja for giving a nice movie!
Thandatti (2023)
pleasant surprise!
Watched the movie without any expectations. The stellar acting by Pasupathy carried the movie to the next level. Add to that a clean performance by all other known actors and excellent performance by all the villagers and a fairly clean script and nice twist, you get a very nice feel good movie!
The light comedy spread throughout the movie makes light of many scenes. The movie is thoroughly enjoyable and I highly recommend it!
Seeing Pasupathy's acting once again reinforces my belief that Pasupathy is such an under rated and under utilized actor! He can make any situation human by his mere presence!
This movie is a very nice surprise!!!
Maamannan (2023)
highly rated very average movie!
What struck me in the movie is, every one is irritated all the time in the movie! Has so many template scenes on cast and lot of subtle hero worship scenes!
One of the big scenes in the first half of the movie is when the villain sends dogs to hunt the pigs the hero is growing. When all the pigs die, the director is trying to evoke the sympathy. But if you think about it, why the hero is growing the pigs? Not to nourish them or keep them as pets. Only to grow them and kill them for meat! So, what is the big deal?
The movie sounds so fake in so many areas! The stellar performance of Fagat Fazil or Vadivelu does little to lift the movie. Projecting the movie as Vadivelu's comeback movie helped the movie gets a huge box office returns.
The only funny thing is, the hero Udayanidhi is from DMK and the chain of events depicted in the movie are almost all against DMK. It was really stupid of Udayanidhi to not only act in the movie but also fund it!
Kannai Nambathey (2023)
Big mess!
There were some promises early in the movie deserving the one star rating. As the plot became more and more convoluted, the movie becomes bigger and bigger mess! I had some hope that it will all make sense somehow in the end and God I was so wrong!
The plot was thin. Had lot of holes all the way. Add the seemingly endless co-incidences and it is a recipe for a very poor movie! This movie is ripe with such impossible co-incidences where all the characters happen to be at the right place at the right time with the right weapons and right reasons!
I liked the ending because it was the end of the excruciatingly painful movie!
God, I wish I did not see this!
Farzi (2023)
Plot with a hole as big as grand canyon!
The web series starts with awesome acting talent. Amol Paleker, Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, KK Menon gives a good feeling in the beginning.
Then the web series unveils with the series of holes in the plot and keeps getting worse as it goes. First, a Gandhian like Amol Palekar kind of knowing the criminal ways and choosing to keep a blind eye. By simply modeling it as Breaking Bad, they have added Shahid's friend to the plot who becomes a dead weight with the use of sophisticated printing machine and top quality paper. In other words, the technology has simply replaced him and he adds no value to the operation with KK Menon. So, there is no reason for KK to hold on to Shahid's friend.
But more than anything else, the biggest hole is, once the artist produces the perfect design, there is no value for him anymore. Why would KK hang on to him?
And, these directors should stop mixing family issues in the story. One, it is an unnecessary distraction. Two, they do not know how to take this! Cliches stitched together!
What a disappointment!
Mission Majnu (2023)
What the heck was that?
The movie had decent moments. Intelligent sequences, great presence of mind scenes, etc.,
But where the movie fell flat was the stupid love sequence. This does not add any value to the movie. It just messes the whole movie by showing the carefully built image of loving, caring hero is just a stupid moron to care a damn on how the fully pregnant wife will feel when left to survive alone in a foreign country! Worst is, he shows how much patriotic he is but does not even think that his wife could also be patriotic to her country! The director conveniently ignores this!
And there is no absolutely no reason why the hell the agents were still in Pakistan 24 hours after the mishap!
Boy, this movie is stupid!
Kaapa (2022)
Not Kaapa. Crap!
Prithviraj is trying to do what b grade movies failed to do for years. Bringing down the standard of malayalam movies!
This movie attempts to play the masses, one guy beating hundreds, cool attire, etc., trying to copy the run-of-the-mill tamil masala movies. And, it falls flat!
The story had absolutely no sense. If Prithviraj thinks that cool looks, swift movements, choreographed fight scenes etc., can save the movie, he is sadly mistaken.
The movie leaves such a sour aftertaste, one really questions the sanity of the director for taking a movie in such a haphazard way!
I highly recommend that you save your sanity and precious time and skip the movie!
Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu (2022)
Really boring!
Yet another gangster movie! Taken a bunch of cliche' from other gangster movies and never bothered to piece them together! The story is hanging midway in multiple places and disjointed completely
For a gangster movie, the hero enters the gangster side after an hour of the movie should spell how slow it was till then! There was really no warmth between the hero and heroine.
The movie was so slow all around and the rivalry between the gangs was laughable!
And then, they have the audacity to give a lead for part 2 of this crap! Boy, they are confident, stupidly!
Amidst all this, Simbu seems to have had some hope on the movie and acted sincerely. That was the reason for the 3 rating!
Avoid at all cost!
Sardar (2022)
Too many flaws!
The number of flaws in the movie is more than the number of minutes the movie runs!
In the first few minutes of the movie, in the international court, china is accusing India of misuse of water and the Indian representative says that his company will save India and also the world! The movie falls flat there itself! The young Karthi plays the usual jovial/comic/action hero sub-inspector and nothing to write about that. The elder Karthi entering single handedly in to pakistan army camp and finding the secret documents and changing multiple makeups and coming back to save India is nothing but laughable!
This movie has satisfied Karthi's desire to put on different disguises!
Extremely painful to watch! Many gray cells in the brain died watching this movie!
Sinam (2022)
no intelligence what so ever!
The movie is taken so shoddily! There is absolutely no intelligence whatsoever in the plot! The police investigation is laughable as almost any other movie had a better investigation sequence. They break the basic rule of a crime thriller - not to introduce a new villain in the end!
Arun Vijay gives his 100%. But unfortunately, that alone refuses to rouse any interest in the movie. The scenes were shoddily tied together. The police handing the wife's murder investigation to husband is unheard of!
This movie probably would have been a hit if it was released in 1990 as it probably would have been new then!
Wasted 2 hours of my life!
Bro (2021)
what a beautiful movie!
Such a fine movie! Very well directed and pleasantly surprising. It is so rare to find such a gem among movies!
A simple story with a nice twist! Very well acted by all the main actors. Excellent lesson for many new directors. Taking a movie with a small set of people reduces the budget significantly
Very heart warming story and clean depiction of love between siblings interluded with a sweet love story. It is really pleasant twist to the cliched horror stories and a totally new way to look at things differently
Did not bother too much about CG and 'special powers'!
It is a welcoming change to see such innovative approach to the making of the movies!
Buffoon (2022)
incoherent!
Looking at the name of Karthik Subburaj, watched the movie and my God! What an incoherent narration! There was absolutely no effort to make any connection to the viewer. The scenes where haphazard. Loosely stitched and made very little sense!
Good actors like Naresh wasted. It is too much for Vaibhav to handle and the poor acting skills shows up too often!
The refugees living a tough life in India, immigrants trying to escape to another country going through incredible hardship, the plight of therukooththu artists.... all these provide immense opportunity to elicit an emotional connection between the movie and the viewer. But the utter lack of emotions, glazing over details makes the movie fall flat even in these scenes!
Waster couple of hours of my life watching this movie!
Diary (2022)
bad!
This movie is a poorly executed one.
Excellent actor Kishore is wasted. The other one wasted is the Actress from Nakkalites!
The usually wooden face Arulnidhi turns out to be the best actor in this movie! Almost every one else acted poorly.
The dialogues are right out of an adolescent with poor social skills! There is no depth in any of the dialogues. Even the one whether mother talks about the struggles of bringing up a child as a single parent! Come on! It is a child's play!
I am really surprised about the high rating in IMDB!
I went with the IMDB rating to watch the movie and was betrayed! I would have avoided if I knew about this!
Naalai (2006)
Highly underrated!
A very neat acting by all the actors. A slick story. Very well taken movie. Almost no waste scenes (baring one song). A gangster movie with a neat story in itself is rare among all the gangster movies.
A powerful performance by both Richard and Natraj
A pleasant surprise!
Payanigal Gavanikkavum (2022)
Great feel good movie!
A perfect feel good movie. Awesome acting by Vidharth, Karunakaran and actor playing his friend
One of the very few movies (like Radha Mohan movie) where everyone turn out to be good. Excellent acting by Vidharth makes this movie a must watch
Loved it!
Soorarai Pottru (2020)
Movie with agenda!
The movie lacks the basic truthfulness for a biopic
It conveniently omits the fact that this is life of Gopinath who is a brahmin and portrays him as a low caste and subtly passing periyarist ideology
Such insincere movies should be scorned at and never celebrated!