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A thin plot over stretched and over stuffed, ended up being convoluted neo-political drama about everything left wing wanted. Making political movie requires a certain maturity to handle the themes and not to offend other parties. You would be wondering why the hell review about sexual crime movie talk about political themes is because makers of the movie decided to sideline the core plot mere to 10 scenes and go on about others POV on such incidents. 1.5/5 Rather than bringing more light and conviction on the core plot, movie goes everywhere but my interest were on scrolling to insta feed.

A wholesome movie with noteworthy performances. Ayothi is about North Indian family who are complete strangers to Tamil Nadu comes in for pilgrimage trip to Rameswar, meanwhile on that trip what happened? How Sasikumar came into the plot all executed in familiar but organic method. The Family consist of hardcore conservative father whose primary characteristics being irritable to audience, by being irresponsible and his mere presence does that so casually. Big claps to Yaspal. The daughter is the emotional knot to the whole drama in play, she has to play multitude of characters while engaging us into the drama. She is stunner in acting. Sasikumar as random stranger helps a poor family in dire need he excels being the subtle performer. His calmness and subtle changes of body language stamps him with audience. Except for the opening fight and one song towards the end film runs to necessary length with enough engagement factors written well. 4/5 feel good film for family watch.

Some thrilling moments and interesting core idea can't save the inconsistent and clumsy script. The biggest plus for the movie is definitely the antagonists casting as four of them individually gives creepy stalker killer vibes whenever they put on screen, their swaying of situations, killer instincts and lustful killings for blood are all glory in gore. Second of all Arulnithi has given a sincere performance and others not so noteworthy acting. Director could have written the family bonds and their togetherness different scenes than montage of songs same goes for love scenes as well. Bharathiraja was wasted. Film left audience with many questions than answers. 1. Why does the protagonist has to be mute? What is the necessity for this character feature? Not convincingly written any scenes for it. 2. What is the motivation for villain gang? What is the end goal here? Again left out 3. All the killings done by villain gang was very random ? May be for shock value only Even if we are to give free pass to all these questions, screenplay get tiresome after "n" of fights..... Missed opportunity 2/5 - decent watch if you are blood loving killer film fan otherwise below average attempts to make a movie like Naan mahan alla

2/5 for Nani and the stunt choreography except these all aspects are Flatland. Dasara is about a village divisive with caste but United by A SILK bar falls prey to Dirty politics of local goons/ brothers and tells age old triangle love story with vengeance and violence. In order to address the toxic traits of traditions, Alcoholism and everyone affected by such closed mindset and illiterate people in power, film maker give us old wine in old bottle. Making, screenplay even the choices characters make gives the audience resemblance of 80s Tamil films. Verdict: Nothing new offered to recommend, only if you are sucker of unnecessary over the top violence can watch it once.

You can see the ending miles ahead .... It is that much predictable Cadavar opens with a burial of a woman and her husband promising vengeance of those who responsible and which leads to the death of a renowned surgeon. So police and pathologist try to connect dots. All the actors have given a limited performance relevant for the content but biggest flaw the narration structure and shot composition gives away the twists and turns miles ahead. Intentional heroine worship scenes, very thin plotline stretched to make a 110 mins runtime, logic loopholes and easy mistakes of handling multiple timelines and Amateurish executions are main problems why this thriller offers not much thrills or mystery. Vetri angel love story and interval block are the only saving grace. Verdict: Generic thriller presented with below par execution makes this a dud to watch. 2/5 But how did they thought after revealing the master mind at the end of second act we would go on to watch third act with same excitement as of opening frame.

Flawed film cannot be saved by morality it teaches Film revolves around a suspicious death of mother who recently lost her child and the back to back deaths turns the suspicion towards the protagonist (Jei) and what follows are the sequences of flashbacks stitch together to make sense of present events. Every character feels like given strict one note attributes to fit in and only Nattrayen (Harish) gives a performance like real person rathan than doing what notes say. Film has many flaws of its limited budget reflects in shots, amateurish acting, staging of scenes are like stage plays, many continuity issues plague the film and decent cinematography of Velraj gives a dynamic of interesting to flat scenes. Give it a try if you have nothing to watch on dull weekend otherwise nothing special about this flick. Once glorified Suseenthiran directing such amateur movies are testimony that past glory days won't save the present mediocrity. 2/5 - Karma is a boomerang but this message alone not enough to carry a whole movie 🍿

Beaten to death making and storyline encourages audience to skip this dud. Son who hates his dad due to his toxic behaviour and narcissistic self centered ego which led to destruction of many people's lives. Karthi and Prakash Raj delivers compelling performances as father son duo filled with rage and anger issues gives a satisfaction of witnessing family drama exaggerated to reach commercial cinema scale. Not much for debutant Athithi or other main actors nor their characters leave a mark. Biggest problem of the movie too many songs and fights in same style and format after first one every things gives boredom and none of the villains or fighters pose any threat to the hero. This leads to the next problem of Too perfect hero who has no weakness or too big of a character to even beat in any form of foes. Such unchallenged hero arches should have some sort of failures or traumas but that also not used cleverly in the script. Movie had some ideas would turn out good entertaining masala movie but writer director Muttaiah very strictly wanted make formulated predictable movie where we don't have pay attention to follow the storyline, it a type of movie we put on while eating at background and bothered by it. Karthi could do better and utter disappointment is left with me. 1.5/5 - formula movies can work if the presentation is upgraded but this movie still gives strong vibes of early 2010 rural dramas.

Arun Matheswaran debuts with brilliantly directed Gangster revenge drama Rocky a young man released from jail after 17years for a gruesome murder tries to find the attachment to live this life through his lost family and his journey brings back flowers and demons of past told in violent and nonlinear four part script. Ravi Vasanth as Rocky, Great Bharathiraja as Mani maaran and Dhanraj the unapologetic assassin gave gloriously violent performances. The emotional knot between antagonist and protagonist, their past told in interlude scenes and even better staging and composition of the scenes make this masterclass on film making. Arun has taken a masterclass on telling very familiar revenge drama through all departments involved in projects such as camera movement , lighting, sound design , character design, art direction, wide shots , not inter cutting to close ups, foreshadowing, mute, bgm and even final reveal from the pov of child simple but effective handling of all the tools and composition of all the talents involved make this crime drama a film that will be studied by film students and Cinephiles like me revisit to take notes. You may think I am not being critical of its flaws but it is been very long time we have seen such mastery of the craft since vetri marran's yet another glorious Vada chennai. But this Rocky not everyone's cup of tea as the shots have taken time to introduce the purpose and single framing for long dialogues will give the feel of boredom or even letting audience disconnect to emotional knots but it worked well for me and with me. 5/5 - Sheer brilliance of Arun for announcing that Tamil cinema will shine in international stage and inspire many new frames of cinema.

One night thriller worth your attention "Eesho" starts with sexual crime committed against the minor in a school and how does the school system and money protects the predators and let loose the armoury on victims which leads to them choosing death over life. Hence we introduced a key witness of yet another Pedophilic case against a "VIP" and he meets with a stranger who is disguised as innocent bystander. Jayasuriya convinces us in casual manner whether is he devil or angel? Jaffer who is truly portrays a common man wants to do good but terrified of consequences that his daughters have endure and when Eesho frightened him, he innocently try to get rid of him. The conversation which happens between pillai and Eesho is high and some points and uninteresting at some, screenplay moves in predictable pace towards predictable clichéd conclusion yet we feel sound of justice is served at end. 2.5/5 Worth the 100mins you spent on this social crime drama with hint of thrilling scenes

Diary - Supernatural Mystery thriller that succeed 80% of the movie and the balance were generic. Film opens with the accident in 13th hairpin bend of udagai but remains unclear of its reasons which lead many speculative and superstitious about the cause. Fast forward 16 years new-bie Arulnithi picks the case and kicks off the movie. Movie takes on rare genre of synergistic supernatural drama and whodunit classic tale like Korean films yet it feels very native to udagai mandalam. Story got enough substance to hold the audience at edge and keep them guessing until last act of the movie. Special credit to Arulnithi for selecting a script which got very little scope for heroism and most of the first half it's about other characters who pushes story forward not him. Almost all of the character artists have done brilliant job keeping us engaged even though usual star cast is absent. Writer - Director has scored high as writer but his direction and staging of scenes very generic. The drawbacks are definitely the 2 songs and fights which doesn't add anything to narration. Audience most of them the figured out the twists and reveal almost 5/10 mins before the actual reveal in screen but writer Innasi gives an emotional ending with few more twists that clarifies unfinished knot and elevates movie from other thrillers we usually recommend. 3.5/5 ⭐ Verdict: Highly recommended thriller which has good substance to survive multiple watching