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Rangayana Raghu in ‘Agnyathavasi’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In Agnyathavasi, director Janardhan Chikkanna uses the setting as a powerful narrative tool. He turns to cinematographer Advaitha Gurumurthy and music composer Charan Raj to create an immersive experience for the viewers. The film, backed by Hemanth M Rao, boasts technical solidity, even as it tries hard to…
Based on real events, and co-directed by a former Navy SEAL, this embedded view of combat offers terror and thrills in equal parts Source link
A still from ‘Alappuzha Gymkhana’ | Photo Credit: Think Music India/YouTube In Boxing, dodging a punch is probably as important as landing one. Filmmaker Khalid Rahman clearly knows a thing or two about this evasion technique, which he portrays so well in the elegantly staged boxing bouts in his fifth film, Alappuzha Gymkhana. Like a…
Sunny Deol comes out of memes this week, demanding an apology from naysayers. Taking a break from the western front, the original one-man army fires a salvo on the Coromandel coast. When Bollywood takes a break from Muslim terrorists, it reincarnates Ravan to take on the hero. A decade after Shah Rukh Khan rode on Chennai…
Who knew that a character sending a specific someone’s photo on a WhatsApp group would make for one of the ‘massiest’ sequences we have seen in recent times? Director Adhik Ravichandran, who, over the last ten years, has gotten us used to his use of bright colours, dutch-angle shots and quirky humour, takes it up…
Mammootty in a still from ‘Bazooka’ A few late flourishes can sometimes redeem a film even though it might be hurtling downhill till that point. But, in Deeno Dennis’s directorial debut Bazooka, that supposed redemption arc comes way beyond a point where most of us would have stopped caring for the characters or the plot….
Malayalam film actor Mohanlal with actor and director Prithviraj Sukumaran during a press meet for their upcoming film ‘L2: Empuraan’, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Malayalam superstar Mohanlal’s recent release L2: Empuraan on Saturday (April 5) became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time globally, dethroning 2024’s Manjummel Boys. The film, which was…
A still from ‘A Minecraft Movie’ | Photo Credit: Warner Bros. A Minecraft Movie has crafted a box office smash. The long-awaited live-action adaptation of the best-selling video game opened to $58 million U.S. gross on Friday, including Thursday previews — the biggest opening day of 2025 to date and the highest single-day debut ever…
A still from ‘Presence’ A spectre is haunting the Payne family — the spectre of Steven Soderbergh’s hand-held camera. At least, that is what we are led to believe as we are introduced to Chris (Chris Sullivan), Rebecca (Lucy Liu), and their teenaged children, Tyler (Eddy Maday), and Chloe (Callina Liang). Rebecca’s dreams and desires…
As the world customarily deliberates on a woman’s place in society this week, writer-director Jayant Somalkar shows us the mirror through a deceptively simple take on the patriarchal roots of the traditional matchmaking process and the attendant social churn in our villages. Structured like a coming-of-age story of a village girl struggling to find her way out…
