There is a universal charm to a policeman in search of clues to crack a series of murders. Its attraction is almost primordial. And when you have somebody like Kamal who can get into the flesh of any character and Gautham Menon, who knows how…

The irony strikes you like a sparkling light on a dark night. There they are, the two of them who are set to become man and wife in real life in a few days time, are shown to be forced into a marriage that they…

Em Mahan takes off from where Cheran's Thavamai Thavamirundhu, in that the story moves around the unique relationship between a father and son.Metti Oli fame Thirumurugan has dished out an emotional saga chronicling minutely the minutiae of the bitter-sweet emotions that are specific to…

It seems Kollywood is yet to come out of the 'Baasha' syndrome.Director Nandakumar, inspired by the Rajinikanth starrer.Prashanth enacts the role of an angry youth trying to clean the society of anti-socials after he loses his family to the baddies.Prashanth has tried…

Vijayakanth's films can never be highbrow. And to be fair to him, he never promises them in the first place. You go to a Vijayakanth film just as kid would go to a theme park --- for fun and easy excitement. For cerebral ideas, there…

Campus love stories are nothing new to Kollywood. Adding to the long list is Manadodu Mazhaikalam. Though Arputhan, the director, has tried to give a different sheen to the movie, unfortunately the slow narration of sequences with predictable turn of events make it all plodding…

Jothikrishna's much-hyped Kedi is a triangular love story inspired by films like Mannan, Padyappa. Debutant Tamanna walks away with all honors as a rich girl who plays spoilsport on the romance between Ravikrishna and Ileana. Unlike his maiden venture Unnaku 18 Enakku 20, Jothikrishna has…

After Arindhum Ariyamalum, Navdeep is out with Ilavattam. Primarily a Tamil dubbing of a Telugu movie, the film has few scenes re-shot in Tamil. Director Raja Rajah has taken a storyline that would suit Telugu audience. But he has tried his best to give a…

The masses never get disappointed with Vijayakanth€™s formula films even though they offer nothing new. For, it gives them what they want. Dharmapuri also does. It's a patented Vijayakanth film. A do-gooder, he sets things right single-handedly in his native village which suffers humiliation at…

Jananthan came up with a stunner in Iyarkai. The movie wins him a lot of accolades. Trying to strike a balance between the two, the director has come up with E which dwells on a serious subject, even while infusing with enough commercial elements to…