Sudhir Srinivasan

Bangalore Naatkal

A likeable remake despite minor casting issues Here it is, the remake of Bangalore Days , for the benefit of audiences in interior Tamil Nadu, who presumably don’t really care for subtitles all that much. It’s the return of the tale of three cousins—Ammu (Sri Divya), Aju (Arya), and Kutty (Bobby Simha, with an obvious…

Life in concert

Real concerts are few and far between, these days. Many of them have turned into mime performances, the singers feebly mouthing along to the album version that blares aloud, the live musicians somehow, with minimal effort, seemingly recreating the most complex of digital sounds, the melodies turned into parodies. I distinctly remember the outrage I…

Aranmanai 2

More navel than novel Over the years, Tamil cinema has brought to us several curious genres: comedy thriller, romantic action, action drama (Komban, for instance, is listed under this category), and now, continuing this infamous trend is Aranmanai-2, which can only be categorised under the hybrid genre, masala horror. You can easily identify this genre…

Once smitten, twice try

Last week, a group of friends dragged me, kicking and screaming, to the theatre to watch Premam. Again. My resistance, of course, didn’t have much to do with the film itself; I had fallen in love with it as quickly as Premam’s protagonist, George, does with Mary. But at a time when films come and…

Rajinimurugan

Sivakarthikeyan lifts an average film There’s pretty much nothing in Rajini Murugan that will even startle you, let alone blow your mind. It’s everything you’ve seen already, but you know the thing that differentiates stars from actors? They’re able to take your mind off the silly story; they’re able to make you forget that the…