Sudhir Srinivasan

Asuran Movie Review: A moderately rewarding film, but Vetri Maaran has done better

“Among Vetri Maaran’s recurrent themes is loyalty to a teacher figure and consequent betrayal from either party. We have seen this in Polladhavan, Aadukalam, Vada Chennai, and now, in the flashback sequence of Asuran as well.”

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy: Chiranjeevi is fiery, the film not so much

“Narasimha Reddy is introduced to us as an almost mythical character who was born dead, but is resurrected by the forces of nature—a thunder, to be specific. This is a film that labours quite evidently to try and be an epic.”

Namma Veetu Pillai: A so-so family drama with an intriguing protagonist

“Arumpon himself notes the irony that relatives who are capable of causing great joy, are also those who cause great anguish. This is a fairly deep observation to make of blood relatives. And boy, does Arumpon have relatives.”

Kaappaan Movie Review: An overlong film full of bloat and devoid of soul

“Kaappaan is what you’d ostensibly get if you fed the ‘necessary ingredients’ of a commercially successful film into a computer, and it spat out a script.”

An audacious experiment that works more than it does not

“It’s a film that has been—and will be—mainly talked about for its chief conceit of having only one cast member, and for being shot in a single room, but there’s more.”