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Tamil Movie Review: Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 – Historical, Epic and Concise

Ponniyin Selvan Mani Ratnam A.R. Rahman Tamil Movie Cholan

One of the biggest challenges in making a that is based on epic bestselling novels like JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings and now Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan is in bringing the movie’s storyline as close to the actual event or the novel and yet taking care to make it as excited as possible despite the storyline is predictable. Image source: JFW

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Tamil Movie Review: Vikram 2022 – Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Rock Solid & Action Packed Movie

Vikram 2022 Movie Tamil Lokesh Kanagaraj Kamal Haasan

After watching one of the worst movies of the year for 2022, I had higher expectations of the latest , written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj who also did the excellent Kaithi which I rated the best movie of 2019. Another reason for the high expectation is that it is a Kamal Haasan movie which means perfection from the master himself. Poster source: IMDB.

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Indian Cinema 101: Blatant Mockery of Military Tactics in Wild Dog 2021

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Every regardless it is romantic, action, or comedy, there must be a sense of good storyline and when it comes to action or war, there must be a good use of . If it involves the , then we expect nothing but the very best when it comes to tactics, skills, strategy and use of specialised weapons.

Just look at the tactics and weapons used in the 2019 blockbuster – Uri: The Surgical Strike. They even got the badges and stripes on the uniform just right. Image source: Bollywood Hungama.

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Indian Cinema 101: Tamil Movie Sad Scenes That Can Make Anyone Cry Part 2

Nagesh Kamal Haasan Nammavar Movie Tamil 1994

has always had a special and a key role for the legendary in his (the other usual collaborator with Kamal is Delhi Ganesh) and Nagesh who had always played a comical role has proved to be a very versatile actor with different roles with Kamal Haasan. Image source: Cinema Express

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Hindi Movie Review: Eye Opening, Shocking Article 15 Thriller 2019

IMDB Article 15 Hindi Movie Review

Before , I guess the last that I truly loved – from the storyline to characterisation is Lunch Box starring the late Irrfan Khan. Of course, there were other Hindi that I had watched in between and before that will make a place in my list of must-watch Hindi movies. Image source: IMDB

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RIP SP Balasubrahmanyam: 1946 – 2020

SP Balasubrahmanyam SP Bala 1980s Illayarajaa

The legend with the Maestro Illayarajaa and both have made some of the best classic, ever-green songs that is still popular in this millennium – the voice of my many favourite songs has passed away today. Image source: The Hindu

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Movie Review: Funny, Joyful Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story Movie Children Animation

(Can you identify the new toys in this latest sequel of the series? There are evil ones in the bunch now. Poster source: Wikipedia)

When Toy Story 3 was first mentioned on TV, one of the very first people to take note of it was my son.

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Indian Cinema 101: Tamil Movie Sad Scenes That Can Make Anyone Cry

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It is a fact that we cannot separate “crying scenes” from especially when you watch the old movies. but sometimes sadness can come in other forms as well especially when you have Kamal in the lead role.

I may have my “bad moments” with (and worse ones are the Tamil Serials) but I have to admit that some Tamil movies or some scenes are simply gems. I talked about comedies in Tamil movies and coming to the other spectrum of comedy, this has to be one of my favourite moments from Tamil movies has to be this:-

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(Note: Sometimes this shows an error message – video is not available but a retry later show it is working. I don’t know why. Alternatively, snippets of the scene can be found in Google video here)

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Movie Review 101: Star Wars 1977: The Force is Strong with This One

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(: New Hope – probably the greatest that came out to capture everyone’s imagination and left a deep impression of their life. Picture source: IMDB)

In a galaxy far, far away…

The Star Movie channel over Astro been showing all the in the Star Wars trilogy and last Sunday was the screening of Episode IV (Episodes V & VI will be shown in this week and thereafter). This is not the first time I am watching all the 6 movies – I probably have watched Episode IV about 20 times (or more!) and the rest between 10 – 15 times – ya, I am one crazy Star Wars fan. But despite that, it still feels exciting whenever I see on screen a fights with a light saber or R2D2 arguing with C3PO – the “Force” has made a strong impact on many of us.

The first Star Wars movie (Episode IV) came out in 1977 at the time when I was just 4 years old – too young to understand what the “Force” means.

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Movie Review: War of the Worlds 2005, Good But Disappointed for Wrong Reasons

world of the worlds movie

of the worlds is a classic story by H.G. Wells (mind you, it came out in 1898!) but how much difference that can make in his remake in 2005? That was the thought running through my mind when I saw the movie showing at my local theatre. Image source: Movieclips.com

After hearing about the movie and seeing that it got an “A” rating in The Star, I and my wife set aside our Sunday to see the movie.

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