Kirubhakar Purushothaman
Indian Express·India Today
Most Divergent Takes
- Kaala (2018)8.0 vs TRM 5.8+2.2
- Michael (2026)4.0 vs TRM 5.5-1.5
- Rathnam (2024)3.0 vs TRM 4.5-1.5
- Bangalore Naatkal (2016)4.0 vs TRM 5.2-1.2
- Thoongaavanam (2015)5.0 vs TRM 6.0-1.0
Michael
2026 · Indian Express
Ranjit Jeyakodi's Michael has brilliant frames and music, which fail to save the wafer-thin story.
Maharaja
2024 · Indian Express
The overarching problem with Maharaja is its 'wannabe' nature to come across as a gritty, dark, and emotional rollercoaster. It is more concerned about how it wants to come across than what it really is. Maharaja has been engineered with contrived twists and turns that make it more of a visual puzzle than an engaging film.
Captain Miller
2024 · Indian Express
Dhanush's Captain Miller is a brilliant political drama in the guise of an actioner. There's not even a single moment in the entire 160 minutes of runtime where Arun Matheshwaran's script meanders.
Rathnam
2024 · Indian Express
Director Hari's recent release Rathnam invokes a feeling of watching the rehash of his old blockbusters. As far as filmmaking goes, Hari has tried to be fresh and inventive, but the soul of the film is dated. One can argue that Hari is old school, but there's a difference between being a prized antique and obsolete.
Star
2024 · Indian Express
Star only twinkles and fails to shine bright–it's more about the parts and less about the whole. The film wallows in the suffering of its lead character, who misses success by a whisker, with a protagonist who often comes across as selfish and at times unworthy of empathy.
Jigarthanda DoubleX
2023 · Indian Express
Karthik Subbaraj's film tries to be a lot of things at once. It's Jack of all and King of one -- deliciously entertaining meta cinema.
Pathu Thala
2023 · Indian Express
Silambarasan is the only redeeming feature of the film, directed by Obeli N Krishna.
Pichaikkaran 2
2023 · Indian Express
Vijay Antony fails to pull off a silly and dated Shankar film. For some time now even Ajith and Vijay have been steering clear of these one-man-saves-all films, and there was a respite from the nonsense. The break is over with Pichaikkaran 2.
Por Thozhil
2023 · Indian Express
Despite following all the tropes of a buddy cop movie, debutant Vignesh Raja has come up with an enjoyable genre film that manages to hold your attention throughout.
Kaala
2018 · India Today · Jun 2018
Pa Ranjith keeps talking of ideologies. Kaala seems to be the personification of his ideas. The dialogue "Ellarum Kaala thaan (Everyone is Kaala)," which comes at the tail end of the film, sums up the entire film. And it takes some serious guts to make an ambiguous and abstract climax like this one in a Rajinikanth film.
24
2016 · India Today · May 2016
Making a film about time travel (or anything on sci-fi, for that matter) is like attempting a question in an interview which you don't know the answer to. The more you blabber, the more you get yourself into trouble. It is better to keep it low, and that's exactly what Vikram Kumar has done with 24
Oopiri
2016 · India Today · Apr 2016
With the right cast and the perfect team, Vamsi has pulled off a decent drama, which retains the soul of the original.
Kanithan
2016 · India Today · Feb 2016
TN Santhosh's Kanithan resembles his mentor AR Murugadoss's Thuppakki in a lot of ways. The heroes and the villains of both the movies keep playing mind-games. They don't confront each other till the climax. The pub songs - etc., etc. - look similar. But Atharvaa's film is not as grippy as Thuppaki due to the badly-written screenplay.
Miruthan
2016 · India Today · Feb 2016
A potential script and actors are wasted because of an indifferent treatment in Miruthan.
Bangalore Naatkal
2016 · India Today · Feb 2016
After watching Bangalore Naatkal, the first question that pecks the mind is that what is the need for remaking films like Bangalore Days and Premam?
Thoongaavanam
2015 · India Today · Nov 2015
Thoongaavanam, which should have been done and dusted in 90 minutes, is dragged to fit the conventional time-expectations of the Indian audience. The French film's script doesn't stick with the three-part film grammar, which is prevalent here. The interval block becomes fatal to the flow of the film.
Rudhramadevi
2015 · India Today · Oct 2015
The problem with making a film based on history is the amount of liberty the filmmaker can afford to take, in order to tweak the history so that the film appeals to a wider audience. If the story and the characterisation breach a certain boundary, and if the infused fictional elements overshadow the facts, then the film fails to do justice to the genre. Rudhramadevi seems to have bumped into a similar problem.
Thani Oruvan
2015 · India Today · Sep 2015
If you are ready to overlook the logical blunders, the fat-less movie is sure to entertain.