Piku is yet another feather in the cap for director Shootjit Sircar who gave us Vicky Donor. If we saw enough dosage of his forward thinking with Vicky Donor, he goes one notch up with that characterizing Piku and Bhaskor with Juhi Chaturvedi. Hold on to your bowels, for, Piku is one breezy entertainer.
Badlapur is a new take on how & what would happen if the good chooses to go bad and the bad chooses to turn good. In this game of role reversal, what happens to those around and near runs parallel to the main plot.
A novel idea has been crafted decently into a full length movie. When almost everything now is taking to the internet, why can’t ghosts? Though the story does half the job, the screenplay conveys the story in such a way that the suspense is maintained till the end and adds value
When any film of Kamal releases – there would be sections in the audience having conversations on varied degrees of various emotions.A section that talks about how peeved it is, with Kamal taking a dig at its principles & practices.
The word, Superstar is a pretty commonly used term world over for all big movie stars but in Tamil Nadu alone this title has hallowed status. While there have been numerous polls & debates, for the general audience (& of course me), Rajinikanth is the only Superstar. In that sense, in 2011, when he was fighting for his life owing to many ailments, unimaginable levels of adulation & reverie were evident with fans waiting with hope and prayers for every tiny weeny bit of news that came about Rajnikanth’s condition. Reports of his close mate & masterful actor Kamal Haasan incredibly pained by this development, has been well documented.
A Kamal Haasan movie is always a curiosity-kindler, and Uthama Villan is again the perfect fodder for the hunger and passion of any cinema fanatic! Touching areas of immortality, this meta-movie featuring late legend K .Balachander is simply the best tribute Kamal could have paid to his mentor and creator for its perfection in making and class in execution – Now that’s more than enough reason not to miss this one of a kind clinical performance!
Premonitions and Gambling – Vai Raja Vai makes an attempt to blend these two interesting facets which usually capture our imagination, which is made into a wholesome entertaining package with good music, adept acting and loads of humour! Though it might have ended a bit abruptly, the decent pace throughout the movie is something which will keep you engaged – go for it!
Labelling Court as a ‘Realistic courtroom drama’ that raises pertinent questions on the Judiciary would be unfair to the film, for it touches upon diverse topics that extend beyond the courtroom or the streets or our homes. Once you let the film sink in, you realize it touches our minds and the societal apathy that has crept into it.
Deool is a compounded end product of simple elements like innocence, ignorance, sarcasm, selfishness, politics and superstition that is put through a good process. With the execution taking the story home, it’s a hard to miss and intriguing tale of how we are losing out on our cultural values in the greed of modernization.
We live in a world where producers demand newbie directors to shoot a trailer or a set of scenes from the script to prove their worth. This is totally a valid case as it is the Producer’s money after all. But to gain entry to narrate a script to a producer or even to join as a Director’s assistant, short films seem to be the order of the day,In India at least! This again seems to be a justifiable expectation. What makes these grapes turn sour is the attempt to stretch these short films into laborious feature films where the short-film director lazily inserts songs, comedy sequences & fights to make the short into a passable feature. That is a strict No-No!
