Serial Repetition

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Reviewed Vettayaadu Vilayaadu

Recently, I read an interview of Gautham (by Sudish Kamath, me thinks) where he spoke at length about VV and cop thrillers in general and among other things, heread more...

'Different'

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Reviewed Kalaba Kaadhalan

Call it the effect of watching Aadhi, Paramasivan, Saravanaa & Kalvanin Kaathali back to back, but Kalaba Kaadhalan did come as a whiff of fresh air. The plot iread more...

What a letdown!

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Reviewed Mangal Pandey - The Rising

Four years for a movie! 18 months to grow hair to get into character! And this is what you get?! My pal and I were planning to catch a show of ‘Ponniyin Sread more...

Old bottle, New Label

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Reviewed Anniyan

“Ippo.. Veli naatla road, sutham, sugaathaaram ellam epdi irukku? Yen namma oorula appadi illa?” – Athu Thaan ‘Anniyan’ (“Ifread more...

D for Dumb

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Reviewed D

Last week, as I was reading about ‘D’ on various websites, I planned to collect DVDs of mafia related Bollywood movies. I’ve always been interread more...

You wont mind missing this one

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Reviewed Mumbai Xpress - Bollywood

Note - I intended to post this review for the tamil version. But the movie wasn’t there on the list of tamil movies. I take Kamalhassan’s comedies veread more...

'Chee'

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Reviewed Ji - Tamil

I remember watching an India ? NZ one day international during my school days. India were chasing and required 55 of the last 5 overs. Manoj Prabhakar and Nayanread more...

A meeting of minds

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Reviewed Before Sunrise

Wouldn?t it be great if you could have an endless conversation with someone who thinks in the same wavelength as you and not get bored at all? Richard Lintlakerread more...

City of God-forsaken slums

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Reviewed City of God

The ?City of God? is home to 2 million slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro. Ironically, it?s a god forsaken place. Repressive violence is the law. This is the kind read more...

Insufficient funds

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Reviewed Paycheck

I am not a big fan of John Woo movies. But even those who are will be embarrassed by ‘Paycheck’. The movie has a plot that is more or less similar tread more...

'Hum' ko pasand aaya.. aur 'tumhe?'

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Reviewed Hum Tum

It?s a general rule of thumb that the amount of excitement or pleasure derived out of watching a movie is inversely proportional to the expectation one has fromread more...

The Longest Heartbeat

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Reviewed Kal Ho Naa Ho

Disclaimer: I did not write this in the hope of changing the mindset of millions of Hindi cine-goers who seem to revel in the mediocrity of the so-called ?bid bread more...

A 'New' Benchmark for sleaze

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Reviewed New

When we saw Vijay’s supposed ’panting’ being mistaken for him having sex with Mumtaz in ’Kushi’, we must have known that a movie like &read more...