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The first single from Thug Life, the much-awaited gangster action drama from ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam and veteran actor Kamal Haasan, is all set to be launched in a star-studded event in Chennai today (April 18). With music scored by Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman, Ratnam’s frequent collaborator, the first single titled ‘Jinguchaa’ has lyrics written…
Tamannaah Bhatia in ‘Odela 2’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The 2022 film Odela Railway Station, directed by Ashok Teja and featuring Vasishta Simha and Hebah Patel, was a rural thriller focusing on sexual crimes in a quiet Telangana village. The narrative followed a woman’s chilling revenge after discovering that her husband was the perpetrator….
Maranamass (Malayalam) Starring: Basil Joseph, Rajesh Madhavan, Anishma Anilkumar, Suresh Krishna, Siju Sunny, Babu Antony Direction: Sivaprasad Storyline: A serial killer who targets senior citizens is on the loose, with a popular YouTuber among the suspects. Runtime: 120 minutes Cinema has for long provided an endless supply of content for social media memes, but the…
Viola Davis in ‘G20’ | Photo Credit: Ilze Kitshoff In line with the many president-saves-the-day films—an action sub-genre popularised by titles like Air Force One, White House Down, and the Has Fallen films—comes G20, starring a fierce Viola Davis as a POTUS who can throw quite a punch. That it’s headlined by Davis, an Academy…
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….
