Tamil Reviews

Meera all the way

A dominant performance by Meera Jasmine coupled with a touchy screenplay by director Lohitha Dass makes Kasthoori Maan an engrossing movie.A honest and realistic remake of the Malayalam movie directed by Lohitha Dass himself, the entire movie revolves around Meera Jasmine and her sacrifices.…

Loud and heavy

Srikanth has tried being an action hero A romantic one too. Now with Bambhara Kannaley, he tries to go for the mass hero tag.But this is a coveted spot. It is not easy to become a mass hero as the recognition has to come…

Surya is sincere

Whether one likes it or not, a hero is compelled to act in mass entertainers. He has to appeal to all segments. Unless a hero does it, he is not seen to have made it.If you can understand this logic, you will not be…

Father-Son Duo

There is always a fascination and attraction when a father-son duo acts together. We experienced that in Jor but it is missing in Vettrivel and Sakthivel. In the name of fun and entertainment the director has chosen to give a go-by to a minor matter…

Another assembly line venture

Vanakkam Thalaiva is a movie which has been churned out to cash in on Sathyaraj image. But the cultivated insouciance (lollu) seems to go overboard and the double meaning dialogues and screenplay sans any logic do no good for the movie either.Debutant director Sakthi…

Fighting for love

Amidst host of remakes with blood and revenge themes comes as a whiff of air Dishoom.Quite typical to director Sasi's earlier movies (Sollamalae and Roja Kootam), romance forms the base of the movie, though it is ironically titled Dishoom.The movie is all about…

Whiff of fresh air

First things first. Director-producer Kannan (of Vedham Puthithu fame) deserves fullest praise for attempting a serious and sensitive story even in these times of mindless masala movies.Amirtham, though slow in pace to a world used to MTV-5-frames-a-second-montages and takes time to warm up and…

Turning the searchlights inside

Kodambakkam always holds special allure in the minds of Tamilians. After all, it is from where thousand dreams are launched daily. The success and failure stories in Kodambakkam, the headquarters of Tamil film industry, are in itself pure theater. The story of the small cogs…

Welter of emotions

After all hurdles, June R has finally made it to the theatres. So is the wait worth it? The answer is a moot point. Debutant director Revathy Verma has tried to flesh out the emotions of a girl longing for a motherly touch. But has…

Fatal attraction

There is always a dark allure to the forbidden. Its seductive attraction is magnetic. This special charm, as manifested in a woman coveting for his sister's husband, is the essential theme of Kalaba Kadhalan. This fatal attraction kind of love story is not new to…