The Kashmir Files is centered on a JNU student named Krishna Pandit (Darshan Kumar) who, while running for university president, visits his hometown in Kashmir with his grandfather's ashes. His ...

After the climax and the epilogue, the song 'Chellamma' plays. Not as the background for end credits, but like any other song in the middle of any other film. This is the first time in the 2.5 hours ...

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, unlike recent Hindi historicals, is more action than words. Not much time is devoted to strategizing, politics, evil ministers and elaborate power-play. The characters are ...

Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout is the sequel to Silence… Can You Hear It? (I could not), the 2021 crime thriller that marked the beginning of a tacky whodunit franchise starring Manoj Bajpayee ...

There's a point in every composer's career where the baton is passed on to the next generation. There's a new king, so to speak. In MS Viswanathan's case, the dethroning happened in the late 1970s, ...

A film's timeline ends when the end credits play. We don't know what happens to our characters and their lives after that period, and often wonder about the possibilities…unless there's a sequel.

A woman, Sophie (Smruthi Venkat), jumps off a college window to her death. Soon after, a man, Sathya (RJ Balaji), sets himself up to jump off his high-rise balcony. Exploring what led to their state ...

It also helps that the show is based on a graphic novel (of the same name), written by Shamik Dasgupta, because the worldbuilding in The Village is exquisite. We don’t just see a mutant monster lunge ...

For many filmmakers, a film isn't really even set in Chennai if there's no scene on Napier Bridge. What Presidency is to Mani Ratnam and what SSN College and ECR are to Gautham Vasudev Menon, this ...

Before him, a film mounted on a huge scale would be described as being “like a Hollywood movie.” Now, we just say it looks… like a Shankar movie ...

There's a terrific visual of Kaala striding grimly through a carpet of fire, but there's also a character named Shivaji Rao Gaekwad who gets killed The most mystifying aspect of Kaala, in the context ...

Vijay Devarakonda’s latest film, Family Star, is mostly unremarkable, save for one scene. It happens after an antagonist shows up at his house with an auto rickshaw and demands that his sister-in-law ...