Sudhir Srinivasan

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.

Kurangu Bommai: Another efficient film from the Vidharth stable

It’s Vidharth’s ability to remain quietly in the shadows, to be content playing your average man on the streets that makes these films the gritty, realistic stories they are.

Is Vivegam a completion of the ‘rage trilogy’?

I asked Siva if these three films formed the rage trilogy, and sat back in smug satisfaction, waiting for him to explain how it was the plan, how he has deep ideas over the suppression of primeval rage in modern society, how the modern man gets very little to do in which to channel his testosterone.

Vivegam: Ineffective deification of a star in the weakest Siva-Ajith collaboration

You know how some critics conclude at the end of their reviews that the film is ‘strictly for the fans of an actor’, as though by virtue of being an admirer of the actor, you should somehow be able to tolerate underwhelming work? Well, let’s just say Vivegam is going to get a lot of…

Horror experience

Yes, yes, a theatre is the best place to experience a film in, but they forgot to add the crucial bit, ‘unless it’s a horror film, and you’re watching it in India’.