31 C Bollywood / The New Indian Express
Whenever in a film or a series a character promises one last job, a line probably patented by bank robbers, you know how its going to turn out. In the first episode of Rana Naidu season 2, the titular character (Rana Daggubatti) says it to his wife Naina (played by Surveen Chawla). More than anything, I sighed under the weight of the expansive history of predictability of this line. The sophomore season is blotted by such cliches. The villains seemingly ominous whistle precedes his entry. It wil
Padai Thalaivan is actor Shanmugapandian's first after the demise of his superstar father, actor-politician Vijayakant. It could have taken the easy route of milking nostalgia, and even gone his father's way of featuring in a film where the protagonist saves the nation. Padai Thalaivan , thankfully, knows its strengths and tells a small story of a simple villager who loves his elephant. But this feeling didn't last long as the narration becomes haphazard in the second half. It would have been be
There is a flamethrower duelin Ballerina that culminates in a way that could only be described as visual poetry. Anyways. Between a generic prologue and a uncharacteristically tepid ending, the film is burgeoning with infectious energy. Its not when the punches land, knife plunges, or guns fire, that we feel the apparent intensity. It is during the quiet moments when Ana de Armas Eve pauses to catch a breath, tends to her wounds, and fails for the hundredth time to get back again, that we feel t