In today’s extraordinarily image-conscious world, there’s something wonderfully reassuring about a star who lets us laugh at him. Someone secure enough to let another actor take the fight, another character take the punchline, and still know we’ll be looking at him. Massive credit to Suriya for doing this film, because Scene gives us a hero…
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Vishwanath and Sons Movie Review: A Film That Won’t Stay With a Feeling
Things happen in Vishwanath & Sons. Lots of things, in fact, but you never learn about their weight. A young woman subjects her body to pregnancy just so she can fund her education. Later, almost on a whim, she decides to give up this hard-earned education. Meanwhile, a man who seems perfectly content being single…
Jai Bhim Movie Review: A star argues for justice in this well-intentioned courtroom drama
This Suriya-starrer that is about unspeakable police brutality, is at once about the hope that justice can be sought, if workers of good conscience come together Perhaps my most favourite parts of Jai Bhim come right at the beginning, when it familiarises you with the way of the Irular tribe, in which belong Sengeni (Lijomol Jose) and…
Soorarai Pottru Review: Suriya delivers an ace performance in this soaring, sensitive drama
Even being a cynic, I found myself buying into the heady optimism of this film’s message that should you stick with your dream and follow through, without giving up at the first scream or the first tears, you can taste success. It’s optimism, yes, but Soorarai Pottru offers it with dollops of practicality.
Sudha Kongara: Women have to work twice as hard for half the credit
“She pours into her films quite a bit from her own life, she says. For instance, there’s a scene in Soorarai Pottru in which the protagonist Maaran’s father communicates wordlessly. It’s inspired by her father (who passed away during the making of this film and to whom there’s a dedication at the beginning), who kept calling out to her at the end, though he couldn’t speak.”
