Category: Reviews

Idi Katha Kaadu (1979): Revisiting Villainous Chiranjeevi in Chalam’s World of Women.

K Balachander’s directorial about a woman’s content of life without depending solely on the man’s approval stuck with three heroes: Chiranjeevi, Kamal Haasan and Sarath Babu In the world of […]

Sector 36 (2024): Blood-Curdling Darkest Murder Drama with a Class Commentary.

Sector 36 Movie Review Sector 36 is that rare theme-blending Netflix-ified drama that goes beyond the gore of a brutal serial killings and offers us nuanced insights as monologues and […]

Mathu Vadalara 2 (2024): Ritesh Rana Re-Creates the Magic of his Off-beat Quirky Edge-Seater.

The sequel to Ritesh Rana’s Mathu Vadalara is an edge-seater that continues the same quirkiness and the laughter continues even after 5 years. Ritesh recreates the same feel and thrill […]

‘Bhale Unnade'(2024): Nutty for the most part

Telugu Funda’s reveal of the plot: Radha (Raj Tarun) is a saree draper brought up by a single mother. Krishna (Manisha Kandkur), a bank employee, falls in love with him. […]

ARM: Ajayante Randam Moshanam (2024): A Masala Adventure Folklore of Identity for this Onam Festival.

Movies that arrive at festivals like Sankranti (Pongal), Dussehra, or Eid and Onam– for Malayalees– will aim to have a special quality of being all-pleaser family entertainers. Tonivo Thomas’s ARM […]

Bench Life (2024): Passable Comedy-Drama that ‘Inspired’ Heavily from Insta-Relatability Reels

Whenever a filmmaker comes with an idea about the lives of urban IT-Tech people, it always leaves me wondering: what is it that TVF is doing better in capturing the […]

GOAT: The Greatest of All TIme (2024): Venkat Prabhu’s Worst of All Time.

The deaged Venkat Prabhu’s hero is a colossal mess that tried to be everything from a Hollywood style Mission Impossible sprinkled with Indian Father-Son mellow sentiments turning toxic in a […]

35 Chinna Katha Kaadu (2024): A Must Watch For Kids and Parents.

Nanda Kishore Emani’s 35 Chinna Katha Kadu is a rift of a small happy family with (ill)logics of society that reminds you of Amir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par’s sensibilities but […]

AfrAId (2024): Senseless Mediocre Awareness Campaigner of Dystopian Dangers Of AI.

What are your worst dreams about the power of AI? I am sure you would be able to tick off most of the things. It is a good thing that […]