Soori stars in this rural drama as Sokkan, the trusted confidant of childhood friends Aadhi and Karuna. But when his loyalty and self-respect is put into test, which would he choose? Directed by Durai ...

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 ...

The thing to note about DSP Theeran (Karthi), the protagonist of H Vinoth's Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (Theeran – Chapter One), is that he's a realistic cop — at least to the extent that a big-budget ...

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 ...

From polite nostalgic laughter to crazy giggling, these films provide all kinds of laughs. Slapstick or situational, dark or fantasy, there’s something for everyone. A young villager (Jayaram) goes to ...

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 ...

Vijay Devarakonda’s latest film, Family Star, is mostly unremarkable, save for one scene. It happens after an antagonist shows up at his house with an auto rickshaw and demands that his sister-in-law ...

In the buzzing landscape of Indian streaming, Ormax Media has diligently curated an expansive database since 2018-19, helping us comprehend the evolution of the streaming category, particularly in the ...

In Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan (2015), a dark moment plays out with a degree of mundanity we rarely expect from a subject as serious as death. It features Vicky Kaushal, who works with his family at the ...

Aarambham, based on Anush A Shetty’s Kannada language novel ‘Neenu Ninnolage Khaidi’, often sees its lead actor Miguel (Mohan Bhagath) contend with existential questions about time. “If the sun sets ...

The smartest thing about Sharmajee Ki Beti, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s directorial debut, is its title. The term is a riff on the colloquial Indianism “Sharmaji Ka Beta,” the perfect hypothetical boy ...

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 ...