Film-going is generally not an exercise in surprise anymore.
Month: July 2017
Title trauma
Our filmmakers have gone the Bollywood way and are embracing titles that are so long that reviews of them need only mention them about five times in order to reach the required word count.
Baby Driver: Gloriously wild, unabashedly entertaining
Baby Driver makes you feel like you’ve wasted your life worrying about your tragedies, when you could instead have put on shades, plugged in earphones, and made the most of the moment.
Ivan Thanthiran: A not-so-slick thriller
It’s all fairly inventive, like the depiction of social media and its world of memes as having the power to dethrone a minister, and the usage of curious devices like the miniature surveillance camera that is mounted on an ‘e’ (housefly), perhaps on account of all the e-stuff going on.
Sudhir Srinivasan 