Sometimes, when you look at your mother, perhaps as she is watching television or reading a newspaper, it’s easy to forget that she too bristled with your youth and harboured the promise of an exciting life once. It’s easy to assume that mothers were born looking the way they do today, saree and all. Of…
Category: Film Reviews
Thupparivalan: Underwhelming, but a sequel may be a great idea
For a man who’s as stone-faced, it’s rather preposterous when he later breaks into a Nayagan-like lament. Kaniyan would have been the sort to stare without blinking, perhaps well up a bit, and maybe… lose his footing.
Kathanayagan: Sporadic laughs don’t really save this dud
Thambidurai is a man scared of everything, except, of course, a fair-skinned woman.
One Heart: The music almost makes it all worthwhile
I’d hoped to understand how a self-confessed introvert like Rahman has now become comfortable with performing at sold-out concerts.
The Hitman’s Bodyguard: Few tickles, fewer thrills
These chase sequences seems to go on so long that I mentally signed out and began checking off my things-to-do list for the week.
Sudhir Srinivasan 