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“Nimirndhu Nil”… Message alert!
Spoilers ahead… You’ll know if Nimirndhu Nil is the kind of movie for you when you hear these words at the opening: “You are the statue. You are the sculptor. Shape yourself well, and the world will shape out well.” Movies usually end with messages, but the director Samuthirakani begins with one – and thereon, […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Tamil)
“Queen”… Self life
March 9, 2014
Spoilers ahead… Kangana Ranaut looks different in Queen. The actress has always come across like a bundle of raw nerve endings, her hair seemingly frizzed by those naked electrical impulses, perpetually in angst, but here, as Rani, she looks relaxed, radiant. In the film’s celebratory opening scenes, we hear Rani’s thoughts about her impending marriage […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Hindi)
“Gulaab Gang”… That touch of pink
March 9, 2014
Spoilers ahead… I walked into Soumik Sen’s Gulaab Gang expecting a fiery feminist drama. I walked out having watched a Tamil/Telugu mass-hero masala movie – only, with women. I’m serious. As with the heroes in those films, we are teased with flashes of the heroine’s (Madhuri Dixit-Nene, playing Rajjo) presence before finally getting to the […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Hindi)
“Total Siyapaa”… Indo-Pak relations
March 9, 2014
Spoilers ahead… The Pakistani hero (Ali Zafar) of E Nivas’s Total Siyapaa is named Aman, and he’s in love with an Indian named Asha (Yami Gautam). (Get it? She’s “Aman ki asha,” which is what this film was called at some point.) And they plan to confer on their daughter the admirably pacific name of […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Hindi)
“Endrendrum”… Spirited away
March 8, 2014
Spoilers ahead… Let’s say you have the idea for a timeless romance, centered on Christian characters, about the “existense [sic] of love in heaven.” Would you name the lovers Charles and Diana, after the royal couple whose marriage spiralled into the very definition of a cautionary tale, reminding us that a lavish fairy-tale wedding is […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Tamil)
Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Selfie-consciousness”
March 7, 2014
A collection of thoughts from five hours spent in front of the Oscar telecast. Sidney Poitier’s hearing isn’t very good. The woman at the red carpet asks him a question, and he leans in and asks her to repeat the question. He shouldn’t have bothered. It’s just one of those questions that women at red […]
“Thegidi”… Licence to thrill
March 1, 2014
Spoilers ahead… The best Tamil films, these days, are usually those that are set in the smaller towns and villages, and that’s because they don’t have to make too many compromises in the storytelling. In these films, we don’t sense the fear that’s so evident in the urban upper-class films, where we can practically hear […]
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