Reviews

vc on May 1st, 2011

For those of us used to seeing so called “Entertainers” like Twenty-Twenty or various mindless comedy movies, Urumi is a welcome change. It is a bold move from the producers to think of a big canvas movie, get a pan-Indian cast and film it as professionally as possible. The movie falls into a new category [...]

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vc on April 4th, 2011

Reader Unnikrishnan Nair, posted this as a comment. We thought that the comment has some wonderful insights and should end up as a post than a comment. Saw Urumi on last Thursday @ Q Cinemas Kochi… Beleive me, it has to be seen in a theater that has this good sound effects and digital screening [...]

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vc on April 1st, 2011

(This review was written by Hari Krishnan and is cross posted from his blog Malayalam Movie Reviews) I saw this movie couple of days back, but had to wait till now to write this, to regain my confidence that I am a person of normal intelligence. August 15 is a basic school drama type movie. [...]

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vc on March 23rd, 2011

(This review was written by Hari Krishnan and is cross posted from his blog Malayalam Movie Reviews) Direction: Joshiy / Joshee/ Josh-hee or some other funny spelling.  Other crew: I don’t know, and I frankly don’t care, because, they are not even worth mentioning. Well, we have all seen this – a hundred times.  A [...]

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NikhiMenon on March 20th, 2011

Joshiy and his team have reworked their ‘Twenty-20’ template to make a half baked thriller called ‘Christian Brothers’. There are foreign location songs, superstar Mohanlal in a larger than life role, father-son sentiments, Dileep’s comic acts,  twists which come in every thirty minutes,  Suraj Venjaramooodu’s bufoonery, an interval punch similar to what we saw in [...]

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vc on March 15th, 2011

The movie starts with the line -  “This film is imaginary. If you think it is real, then you are imagining things”-  a line which is seen even in the beginning of movies like Pokiri Raja.  This strikes as odd in a movie like Thalapavu since everyone knows that it is based on the life [...]

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vc on January 12th, 2011

There is a very complicated sequence in Juan José Campanella’s Argentinian crime thriller, The Secret in Their Eyes. The camera flies through the dark night sky and we see a brightly lit football stadium. As the camera flies over the stadium we see a match in progress to packed audience. In a sweeping motion, the [...]

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