Sudhir Srinivasan

The Crew: A turbulent journey

You know how they say that every writer plays god with his characters? Director Nikolay Lebedev, in The Crew, seems to have played a particularly merciless version.

The Gentleman Director

“During Kaakha Kaakha, Suriya had fought with Jyotika and seemed crestfallen. When he told me about it, I asked him to go, touch her feet and say sorry.”

Bairavaa: A stale, disappointing film that is everything its teaser scared us of

Vijay, the first of his name, renderer of affected speech, holder of tongue in the cheek, breaker of henchmen’s bones, and dancer of kuthu songs.

Passengers: An unsatisfying Castaway in space

I kept wishing Passengers were a book. It’s a grand premise, a scope so expansive that necessitates the complexity of detail that can only be found in the descriptive pages of a novel.