Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan: Part I has turned out to be a huge box office success, earning raves from national as well as international audiences alike. For the unversed, Ratnam’s magnum opus…
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Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) Review: Even though I am not exposed to the entire range of Mani Ratnam’s filmography, I have known him to be a filmmaker who is attentive to the…
Sometimes, we have to walk that razor-thin path in our lives because of who we are in between those bones. We know that life can be cosy and comfortable if we follow…
There’s a strange smile that appears on your face as you watch Ramanna dismantling his victims in Anurag Kashyap’s Raman Raghav 2.0. Its not because Kashyap somehow magically manages to justify the mystifying murders in his film, nor because he tries to ground you into rooting for his killing machine, but because the film jabs at that side of a human brain which has violence and anarchy all over its surface. He kicks a dark, blunt hole in your head, one that shakes you to the moment of spine chilling, psychotic disorder. Here’s a film that never steps back on its delivery of evil. It piles a dozen of grim shenanigans in front of your eyes and just keeps increasing the weight until you gasp and possibly choke to death.
