Tamil Movie Reviews
Critic verdicts on the latest Tamil releases.
Perarasu brand of entertainment
Director Perarasu is not a kind of director, who gives any work for your brains or caters to your fine sensibilities. He always attempts to…
Fear is the key
It stars with a dream. The dream of the hero Ramesh shows a mishap in a marriage hall. The €˜Thirumangalyam€™ falls down in the fire. The…
Pleasant and spectacular
A butterfly kisses the closed eyes of a cute young girl. The girl opens her eyes to the pleasant morning in her house. It is an ideal home…
Capturing the campus life
Nowadays many directors and producers have the guts to come out with products that defy the set standards of so called commercial ventures.…
Stylish adaptation
Yes, Vishnu Vardhan€™s Billa (which premiered in a few select cinema halls in Chennai today), releasing tomorrow, proved that it is not…
Cheerful entertainer
We rarely come across Tamil films approaching the various sections of people in a realistic manner. Belittling the marginalized segments by…
Mix up and messing up
'Rameswaram' was hailed as a movie that tells a love story in the backdrop of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees. True. It has a love story and it…
Real life on celluloid
Thankar Bachchan has the reputation of making films based on reality. He tries to bring out some real shades of Tamil life on celluloid.…
Impressive in bits and pieces
Machaakkaran, meaning a lucky person, tells you the story of an unlucky person. His life takes a turn when he meets a girl who is…
Realistic and engrossing
Very rarely we come across realistic portrayals in Tamil cinema. Some filmmakers do deal with various shades of life but more often than…
Vijay show
€˜Azhagiya Tamil Magan€™ banks heavily on Vijay€™s charm and performance. The Ilaya Thalapathy has lived up to the challenge created by the…
Romance is the buzzword
Action King Arjun as a producer has chosen to render a romantic entertainer. A remake of Telugu movie 'Itlu Saravani Subramani', the movie…
Racy all the way
Actor-turned-politician SVe Shekher's Son Ashwin Shekher makes his debut as hero in €˜Vegam€™, directed by K R Udayashankar. A suspense…
Action all the way
Veeramum Eeramum - Action all the way Director Sanjay Ram has come out with yet another movie based on underworld. Quite typical to his…
Good mix of sentiment and humor
Pasupathi - Good mix of sentiment and humor Selvabharathy known for hilarious entertainers has come up with a movie that is a right mix of…
Entertaining all the way
Malaikottai - Entertaining all the way Hats off to director Boopathy Pandian and Vishal for dishing out a commercial entertainer which is…
Loaded with political message
Sarath Kumar's Nam Nadu is a important film for Sarath Kumar, which has hit the screen at a time when the actor has taken a new avatar of a…
A welcome relief
Debutant director K R Senthilnathan has chosen to go the path traveled less by many in Tamil cinema. He has come out with a horror film,…
Class apart
Inimey Nangathan - Class apart Inimay Nangadhan is the first animated non-mythological movie, with 2K resolution on international…
Dotted with the typical Maniratnam touch
It's dotted with the typical Maniratnam touch, lively and entertaining, but shorn of pace, fails to make the 'Mani grade'. Slow take-off…