I suppose the question always was: what’s so special about Bhagavanth Kesari that it needed to be repurposed as Vijay’s last film? Balakrishna’s film rides on moments, on his entertainingly over-the-top presence, on a kind of, shall-we-say, self-aware absurdity? When he yells, “Bro! I don’t care!”, you’re laughing even as you’re cheering. With Vijay, we…
Month: July 2026
The Odyssey Movie Review: Christopher Nolan’s Homecoming
The control Christopher Nolan exercises over his cinema deserves to be studied. That he has mastered hero elevation should be evident to anyone who’s watched just Batman Begins. In The Odyssey, he reminds us once again that there can be no true elevation without… restraint. Here, the protagonist, Odysseus, must first suffer—and how he suffers. In the…
Idhayam Murali Movie Review: The Confusion of Modern Love
Idhayam Murali begins with some generic nostalgia bait: patchy cable TV connections, teacher crushes, Fanta bottles, desktop computers and CD-ROMs that I gazed at with half-misty eyes… There may be all this nostalgia in the beginning (perhaps because it is a reinterpretation of Idhayam, a film from a different time), but make no mistake, the…
Sudhir Srinivasan 