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Raanna and Priyanka Achar in ‘Elumale’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Elumale (reportedly based on true events)is a romantic thriller and director Punit Rangaswamy has seamlessly blended both the genres in his debut effort. Powered by earnest performances from Raanna and Priyanka Achar, the movie is a triumphant product of a clever script. Revathi (Priyanka…
A still from ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. | Photo Credit: Netflix/YouTube The Thursday Murder Club would have done much better as a series. Based on the first of Richard Osman’s book series, featuring four pensioners solving crimes from their posh retirement home, Cooper’s Chase, the film would have worked better as a show rather than…
A still from ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. | Photo Credit: Netflix/YouTube The Thursday Murder Club would have done much better as a series. Based on the first of Richard Osman’s book series, featuring four pensioners solving crimes from their posh retirement home, Cooper’s Chase, the film would have worked better as a show rather than…
Pawan Kumar and Siri Ravikumar in ‘Shodha’. | Photo Credit: Zee5 Kannada/YouTube Shodha, the latest Kannada original series on ZEE5, is an adaptation of the English play Catch Me If You Can. There have been several cinematic versions of the story, the latest one being Khoj, the Hindi web series starring Sharib Hashmi and Anupriya…
A musical drama loosely inspired by the life of Padma Shri Raj Begum, Songs of Paradise puts into focus the rich poetic culture of Kashmir that often gets buried under the “Files” of jaundiced perceptions. It is the side of Kashmir that we have hardly seen in Bollywood. Set in a time and space when the idea…
Lokah Chapter 1 : Chandra takes you to a different world from the word go, one where a superhuman lives among the mortals. This time, we have a woman, Chandra. The movie, bankrolled by Dulquer Salmaan’s Wayfarer Films, is a cinematic treat and could even be a lesson for many on how to master the…
A scene from ‘Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Towards the fag end of Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira, when one character asks – “Do you sense any logic in this joke?”, it appears to be one last-ditch effort to convey the filmmaker’s intentions to the audience. Clearly, the film is set in…
Siddharth Malhotra and Jahnvi Kapoor. | Photo Credit: Maddock Films/YouTube Early in this romantic comedy, when Param (Siddharth Malhotra), a second-generation businessman who is besotted with data, buys into the idea of a new computer application that promises to find the perfect match for netizens, he wonders, “It looks good in theory, but is it practical?”. An…
Two huge films, with hundreds of crores riding on them, clashed on a rainy Thursday morning as I braced myself for the big-screen battle before sunrise. I made it to a 6am show in Andheri because there’s no better feeling than watching a full house Rajinikanth film first day, first show. Coolie, directed by crowd…
The death of a dream is a terrible thing. Though the finale of The Sandman Season 2, Volume 2 is called ‘A Tale of Graceful Ends’ and features a funeral and eulogies, it is ultimately about hope, love and reconciliation. The Special, ‘Death: The High Cost of Living’, serves as an effective epilogue. At the…
