The first few events in Ullozhukku (Under Current), directed by Christo Tomy, happen in quick succession. Life falls through Anju’s (Parvathy) fingers before she can chart a plan. From a wide-eyed ...

The year is 2066. An air taxi picks me up from a cardio-reparation chamber in Mars; my ailing 80-year-old body settles in for the hour-long ride home. I swipe the oxygen to summon a transparent plasma ...

In the midst of the pandemic, the Chhattisgarh police in Raigarh decided the best way to encourage public safety measures was to use Bollywood film dialogues in their posters, re-interpreting Bachchan ...

There is no mainstream filmmaker in India who – for over 35 years – has pushed himself and his art the way Mani Ratnam does, with each new film an attempt to challenge the boundaries of mainstream ...

When you watch enough bad movies in life, common sense goes for a toss. The most obvious things – like language – stop making sense. For instance, deep into the hellfire that is Wild Wild Punjab, I ...

Christo Tomy’s Ullozhukku is stung by grief. The Malayalam drama is mostly about the two characters – Urvashi’s Leelamma and her daughter-in-law Anju (played by Parvathy Thiruvothu) coming to terms ...

Adarsh Gourav started his career as the younger Rizwan in Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan (2010), alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol (Khan essayed the older Rizwan). It was, however, the role of Balram ...

Jithu Madhavan fully understands the excitement this thin plot can generate and instead of zooming past this idea to get to the “story”, he fills up the first half with some of the most random moments ...

Tillu (Siddhu Jonnalagadda) is back and so is his deadpan humour. After being pulled by Radhika (Neha Sshetty) into a pool of dirt in the first film, he is scared of commitment on the personal front ...

Premalu’s biggest LOL moment takes place when the romance tries to address the biggest problem we see with its predecessors. In a clever bit of self-referentiality, it acknowledges its protagonist’s ...

The megastar has nothing to prove to anyone yet he continues to remain in the form of his life, a good four decades into his legendary career. His last two years, for instance, have included a wide ...

Choona starts off fine. The setting is semi-fictional, with veiled nods to real-world politics. It opens with the ruthless urban development minister of the Swachh Samaj party, Avinash Shukla (Jimmy ...