Srinivasa Ramanujam
The Hindu
Kara
2026 · The Hindu
What Kara promises in the first 10 minutes is a grand cat-and-mouse game between a determined robber and an equally determined cop. What Kara dishes out — after an overlong 161-minute runtime — is melodramatic fare that cannot make up its mind on what it wants to be.
Nooru Sami
2026 · The Hindu
You almost wish the rest of the film had emotional heft like this. Alas, it doesn't. The biggest problem with Nooru Sami is the multitude of conflicts packed in it; it would have helped to focus on the central internal conflict of the mother's remarriage alone, rather than throw in other angles that have nowhere to go.
Varisu
2023 · The Hindu
For a first half that relies heavily on the slow, TV serial-like sequences, Varisu has little heft to the emotional beats; the mother-son relationship seems superficial, while the brothers' tussle to take over a multi-crore business seems trivial. It is only in the second half that Varisu picks up some steam.