The film itself is laboured and sometimes contrived, the gangster elements are predictable and sometimes even...
While the movie is gripping and stylish in parts, it loses its hold at crucial moments.
Kamal sacrifices what could have been a powerful story to please his narcissistic self.
Mani Ratnam fails as a writer and love becomes just another metaphor for tradition.
We can only see this movie like fond parents who see their children acting in a school play. Ours is not to...
It is impossible to watch this movie without a sense of cynicism creeping up on you
This is what experts call the Stockholm Syndrome, where the captive audience falls in love with the captors...
In spite of its inconsistencies, will become part of a small group of films that are challenging the...
What takes people to shrines that grant what they seek? A look at wish-making.
In the south, more than reel, films morph into rituals of the culture
Plato would have been proud of Singam. It is full of eternal, unchanging truths of Tamil cinema...
Saint meets James Bond. In the style of grand capers, the hero is a crook with a heart
Search high and low, but happiness lies in our pain. Evade it and you're lost in the quagmire.
Technology takes a round of the temple. Indians, still in the thrall of rituals, are yet to come to terms...