Variety is the spice of life

There is a scene in "Abhiyum naanum" movie wherein, when Prakash raj enters the house, he will see a beggar sitting inside. Looking at his wife, he will playfully ask is that her relative for which she will glare at him angrily and storm away from that place asking him to check with his daughter. Apparently that kid would've brought that beggar "uncle" home for she would've felt bad at this state. Out of love for her, Prakash raj will allow that person to stay with them who literally becomes man friday for them. Innum andha extreme pogalainalum something similar happened sometime back. Junior's pickup van comes near a roundtana where there is an auto stand as well. One day he had asked his mother where is the uncle with 2 dogs who apparently had been missing for couple of days. Neither her nor me had even noted that there was a guy, leave alone having two dogs ( kandipa dogs pathirupen nenakren sheerly out of fear for them!! ). When he kept asking about ...

Athepdi ithana pada review poatutu, India's second highest grossing ever movie pathi post podama irukarathu!! What the world watches i the also same gadikaaram.  One word of caution for those who'ven't yet seen the movie. Better stay a few feet away from the screen - whichever it may be. If you are watching on mobile, even more caution is advised, for any moment, you may feel queasy and drop the phone. Chumma therikka vitrukanunga used to be a catchphrase to describe action movies. But in this movie, literally therikka vitrukanunga rather kotti vitrukanunga. Edhai kekareengala - bucket bucketa blood !! Dhurandhar a dhoorama darroda paaka vendiatha poachu!! After watching the movie, felt like taking a bath!! Avlo gore and torture genre movies like Saw, Wrong Turn may tip a hat for this one!!!  Story wise, nothing new. It starts with Kandhahar plane hijack (and very beginning scene the way they are slicing the neck of someone and that sound...uvvaaaks!!) followed by typical k...

This movie was making rounds on SM ever since it was released and had been a big hit. Despite its limited budget, Malluwood has been steadily increasing its foothold in the Indian movie industry. While Telugu movies have made a big splash with their overseas BO clout and also making the word Pan India as a regular terminology across every movie industry in the country, it is actually Malayalam movies who have literally owned the OTT space across most genres. Be it thriller, of which they've literal monopoly or soft romcom movies, Malayalam movies are a league of their own. With Sarvam Maya they enter into the ghost comedy genre, which has been the only source of hit genre for tamil films in recent past. The other aspect in which Malluwood dominates is their ability to churn top talents - nepotism or otherwise. They've always been the go-to region for heroines who ruled the roost across Indian like the East India company, having been introduced in Kerala, entering into Tamil, mo...

The book is interestingly title to start with and right from the beginning is noticeably a much fast moving story than the previous books in the series. Archer is at his premium form in the book and does what he does best - bring in the fiction element amidst well known facts. This time it happens to be Queen's address of the first meeting of the newly formed government after each election. There are certain ceremonies involved like presenting the Crown jewels for the meeting and the story is about how Miles Faulkner, the series villain is set out to steal them and humiliate William and his team who are responsible for the royal protection unit. The story begins as a continuation from one of the conversations that happens between Miles and William regarding a painting donated by the villain to get favorable verdict on an almost convictable case. Only for William to figure out that the painting donated by Miles happens to be a fake and the original is at his US residence. Coincident...

Of all the movies, that i wanted to see, never imagined i would be posting a review for this one!! Such has been the low profile entry of this movie that, apart from couple of interviews where it was mentioned as a decent one in recent times, i never came across any promotions or even reviews for this movie!! But again, a good product is its own advertisement. I happened to watch this one over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. It has a run time of 100 odd minutes and if you skip through the 2 montage songs and small bit of romance portion involving Vikram, not that they were bad or dragging, but didn't feel like it. The story, for its run time, is quite taught and engaging. Surprisingly, despite being the only famous name in the movie cast, Vikram prabhu is not the hero, though he has more screen time than the hero character himself. The story is about a person on trial who has to be produced in court. Being the escort for that prisoner, what happens during the journey, how...

As mentioned in previous posts, this being the 4th or 5th book in the William Warwick series, Archer hardly makes any effort to reintroduce the characters. The story begins as abrupt for those who follow the series or like a pilot episode of a fresh season for those entering new, with a new assignment being given to William Warwick and his motley bunch.  This time, they've a dual responsibility to unearth potential corruption in the royal protection unit at the same time, perform the protection duty as well for the most beloved royal scion possibly, ever - The Princess of Wales, Diana. With Ross Hogan assigned the task of protection duty for the princess, while rest of the crew are split into teams shadowing the existing cops at the royal household. how they go about uncovering the misdeeds and corruption in the existing team, overcoming initial resistance and then slowly gaining their trust, only to investigate further to unearth evidence against the cartel and eventually resultin...