The camera finds Idhaya mid-flight, New York to Chennai, a man about to marry while confessing his romantic history to…
The early stretches of Kiran Narayanan’s Revolver Rinko capture something genuinely sweet: a pack of village children, obsessed with superheroes,…
A jobless man in a northern Kerala village catches what looks like a secret meeting between neighbors. That single, fleeting…
The premise is almost too good to waste: a drunken New Year prank, sacred crosses pried from graves, and five…
A gambler named Rossi loses everything in a fictional Bengaluru, and within minutes he is sprinting through a city teeming…
The opening gambit is almost charming: a carefree orphan and a runaway minister’s daughter lock eyes, and within the span…
The college gates swing open and Sreekuttan Vellayani walks back into a world of old grudges, louder friendships, and the…
Vidhu carries the entire weight of a man who is terrified of the calendar flipping to 30. His Sathya is…
Dharahas packs his bags for the United States, chasing a romance that the film’s opening frames as a breezy comic…
The con is simple: convince Vijay that his dream girl is a human-robot hybrid, then watch the comic chaos unfold.…
There’s a moment in Jetlee where Satya, as the possibly-blind, possibly-extraction-agent Ved Vyas, holds the screen with a grin that…
Prabhu Deva steps back into a full-fledged acting role as Siddharth, and the inherent curiosity of watching a dance icon…
The film opens in the 1990s, on a landscape that has stopped pretending to be peaceful. Two men move through…
Raghu enters the frame as a man who has already closed the book on love. Arjun Das plays this withdrawal…
The wedding night is barely underway when Maruthanayagam and Muthuselvi slip out, and the entire village is suddenly on the…
There’s a moment in Ram and Leela where the film’s entire premise hinges on a single, absurd condition: Leela can…
Ashley returns from abroad, and the wedding celebrations next door hit her like a memory grenade. The setup is clean,…
The groom’s suitcase lands on the bride’s family doorstep, not for a visit, but for a lifetime. That single image,…
The opening frames catch Deepu at his village threshold, a bag slung over his shoulder and the weight of expectation…
The interrogation room in a Korean police station is tense, the kind of quiet that precedes violence. A detained Indian…
There is a comfort in watching Malayalam cinema’s dependable faces settle into a rural frame. Vishnu Unnikrishnan anchors this family…
Vicky is less a hero than a bemused witness, and Madhav plays him with a shrug-and-smile clarity that sells the…
The film opens with Dongamohan, a small-time fixer, trapped inside a claustrophobic storage unit, a gun pressed against his ear…
The opening scene of Magesh Rajendran’s *Love Oh Love* doesn’t waste time with meet-cutes. It shows Raghuvaran (Pavish Narayanan) hunched…
The wrestling arena in the climax is a masterclass in how to stage physical stakes, every grapple and slam carries…
“Daddy, when I made mistakes as a child, you would scold me and hit me!”, that opening line from the…
The receipt printer sits in a cramped Chennai office, battering out bills for a middle-class family barely surviving. Then lightning…
Madonna Sebastian stares across the living room. Opposite her, Emaya T smiles, a little too warmly. Between them, Sananth Reddy…
A bunch of mismatched office workers sit through a corporate training session, bickering about whose job is more pointless. The…
In a dimly lit airport lounge, a lone suitcase sits on a conveyor belt that never stops, the film opens…
