“How I have missed the directorial work of Nalan Kumarasamy. Is there another filmmaker who’s so at ease generating laugh-out-loud humour from complex, sensitive situations, and who is able to achieve this without ever trivialising the central issues of the film? The man is a rare talent.”
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Oh My Kadavule:A likeable premise, a so-so romance
“The problems in this love story are contained among its main characters. There’s no external aggressor like in most of our Tamil love stories.”
Sindhubaadh: Some opening warmth gets waylaid in this half-hearted thriller
“The problem, rather ironically, is how good Arunkumar is with the everyday aspects of life. When you are as good with the localising, it’s hard to suddenly get your audience atop the mass bandwagon (unless it’s a Sethupathi, in which the villain and the conflicts are localised too).”
Super Deluxe Review: A three-hour non-stop entertainer that’s astonishingly deep
“it’s hard not to wonder if the psychopathic cop is a sort of interpretation of god. He’s a man of power; he’s a man entrusted to protect people. Yet, he doesn’t rescue them as he should, till he gets what he wants. It seems awfully familiar.”
A new dawn: Roundtable conversation with five debutant directors
“We have to understand that the roots of these problems are firmly within our education system, which is designed to create corporate slaves. The trailer of a star’s next film has accummulated views by the million, and we really have to begin asking what we get out of such films. How can we change our taste, our appreciation of cinema? How can we stop making deities out of actors?”
Sudhir Srinivasan 