Director: Atlee Cast: Vijay, Nayanthara, Varsha Bollamma, Indhuja, Yogi Babu, Jackie Shroff The first 30-something minutes of Atlee's Bigil are pure fan service ...

Valimai Movie Review: Laughable Yet Slick, Choose What Of It You WillWhat's clear to anyone watching Valimai is that it's a star vehicle. Ajith gets half a dozen introduction scenes — he rises from a ...

Gaami places the viewing experience above ‘telling a story’. It’s a simple story but with a complex edit pattern that often creates some restless moments, in both good and bad ways. The film follows ...

If You Liked Pagglait, Here Are 5 Other Films You May EnjoyKetan Mehta's Mirch Masala, set in colonial India, is about the solidarity that emerges from shared trauma. When the local subedar sets his ...

To call Mani Ratnam a mainstream filmmaker is a bit redundant, because every (primarily) Tamil filmmaker is a mainstream filmmaker: Tamil cinema does not have an "art film" tradition, the way ...

Monsoon Wedding is one of a kind because its warmth never feels far-fetched. Considering the various dire circumstances the characters go through, the happiness they derive in the smallest moments, be ...

Quiz: How Well Do You Know 90s Bollywood?If you’ve grown up on a steady diet of early David Dhawan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Govinda and Madhuri Dixit, then this is the quiz for you ...

Seththumaan, director Thamizh's debut film, begins slowly and almost cautiously, an animated prologue warming us up for the violent realities of its world. Once into the film, we see greener pastures.

Thanks to filmmakers like Mani Ratnam, the meaningless division of Indian cinema into art and commercial; regional and national has become passe and the post-independent/ educated new generation has ...

Jigarthanda DoubleX is a goldmine of ironies — a playground that Subbaraj is more than familiar with. The first time we see Allius Caesar (Lawrence) explain his name to SJ Suryah’s Ray, we see him ...

Usually, every serious family discussion scene in the movie happens indoors, formally, thereby leading it to be more important. But this scene between Vito and Michael takes place in a garden that is ...

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 ...