Prashanth Vallavan
Cinema Express·New Indian Express·Indian Express
Most Divergent Takes
- 3BHK (2025)3.0 vs TRM 5.5-2.5
- Pyaar Prema Kalyanam (2026)4.0 vs TRM 5.7-1.7
- Maareesan (2025)4.0 vs TRM 5.2-1.2
- Con City (2026)4.0 vs TRM 5.1-1.1
- Baththa (2026)8.0 vs TRM 6.9+1.1
Con City
2026 · Indian Express
While the primary cast members make the writing issues bearable with their performances, Con City could have been a much better film with ruthless script editing.
Idhayam Murali
2026 · New Indian Express
With the right dose of nostalgia baiting, Idhayam Murali gives you a wholesome romantic comedy that traces the misadventures of a true-blue 'Idhayam Murali' type who stumbles and falls his way upwards in pursuit of his one true love
Sardar 2
2026 · Cinema Express
Sardar 2 is thematically dense but emotionally thin, relying on familiar tropes that cycle through cinema much like social media trends, returning with a nostalgic quality but lacking the emotional depth needed to truly resonate.
Pyaar Prema Kalyanam
2026 · New Indian Express
Pyaar Prema Kalyanam takes an interesting theme, marries it to a wholesome genre, and gets way too enthusiastic about turning it into a corporatised, formulaic, social media content, and thereby loses its way and our interest.
Baththa
2026 · Cinema Express
Baththa is a wholesome story about the coming-of-age of both a boy and a gangster, said with utmost respect to both of them, giving the young boy as much complexity as films usually impart to adults and treating the gangster with as much empathy as films would a child. The film stands out with its incredible restraint and hawkish grip on its tone, offering whatever you want out of it—a fun commercial family entertainer, a parable on an arrogant man's ego death, or a deep psychological dissection of human experience.
Dude
2025 · Cinema Express · Oct 2025
It is perhaps easier to hit out at issues like casteism and patriarchy in social dramas than in fun commercial entertainers.
Maareesan
2025 · Cinema Express · Jul 2025
Right around the interval mark, Maareesan takes the sharpest and most abrupt ninety-degree turn in terms of tone and genre, derailing what had been a pleasant ride with a string of unpleasant surprises.
3BHK
2025 · Cinema Express · Jul 2025
3BHK is an unconvincing advertisement for middle-class success, failing to convincingly portray the struggles and aspirations it attempts to highlight.
Veera Dheera Sooran: Part 2
2025 · Cinema Express · Mar 2025
This intense actioner builds intrigue by the minute.
Lover
2024 · Cinema Express · Feb 2024
Lover is a straightforward film about love, decay, attachment, and letting go but the straightforwardness is handled with a refreshing dose of conviction. Lover fumbles in places where it tries to wring the 'point' out of a scene but excels in places where a lot is unsaid or unfinished and yet a lot more shines through the subtext.