“Indrajith may be in a film inspired by the best of Hollywood, but his courting style is all from the cesspool of Tamil cinema.”
Month: November 2017
Cracking Kolaveri
“So, why did an entire generation get hooked to it? Well, that’s a question I suspect both Anirudh and Dhanush are tired of trying to answer, and perhaps trying to figure out too.”
En Aaloda Seruppa Kaanom: The most bizarre romance of this year
“If somebody put a gun to my head and forced me to come up with a one-line story that included the words, ‘Sandals, girl, astrologer, Syria, father’, I couldn’t have come up with something as outlandish.”
Theeran Adhigaram Ondru: An overlong but solid cop film, despite flaws
“His wife’s in danger, some people have been killed, and he’s on the way. Another masala film director would announce the arrival with loud background music, and bring you the hero in slo-mo. But Vinoth isn’t done teasing. He gives you the heroic arrival, yes, but not of Theeran. He brings somebody else to equally rousing reception: an adult German Shepherd.”
Whistles, not wolf whistles: Why Nayanthara matters
The adulation, the rooting, the selfless connection was always reserved for the hero. The heroine could disappear after the cursory duet or two, but should the hero come into danger, all hell would break loose. BUT. This hasn’t been the case in recent Nayanthara films.
Sudhir Srinivasan 