#CelluloidCritic

Critic - No.179 Director : Mysskin Produced by: Arun Mozhi Manickam (Double Meaning Productions) Casts: Udhayanidhi Stalin, Aditi Rao Hydari, Nithya Menon, Ram, Sigampuli, Rajkumar Pitchumani, Renuka Language: Tamil Music: Ilaiyaraja Genre: Crime, Thriller SYNOPSIS:  Gautham (Udhayanidhi Stalin), a visually challenged man races against time to save Dakini (Aditi Rao Hydari), the woman he loves from a psychopathic serial killer. REVIEW: Mysskin’s Psycho begins with Albert Maslov’s quote – ‘We are simultaneously gods and worms’. He defines his antagonist, the psycho, Angulimala as a God, albeit a ruthless one, in front of his victims, and a worm, in the presence of the people who has created him to be one. Unlike other psychopath-based crime thrillers where the audience play a guessing game to find out the killer, Mysskin opens the films with Anguli hacking his victims and collecting their heads as trophies. He kidnaps Dakini, a radio jockey, who is about to accept the

Critic - No.178 Director: Halitha Shameem Produced by: Venkatesh Velineni (Divine Productions) Casts:  Samuthirakani, Sunaina, Nivedhithaa, Leela Samson, Baby Sara, KravMaga Sree Ram, M. Manikanden, Rahul Language: Tamil Music: Pradeep Kumar Genre: Drama, Romance SYNOPSIS: An anthology of four romantic stories across four agree groups connected by a magical thread called love. REVIEW: ‘We like only a few things in each other, yet we believe we love a person whole-heartedly. That make-believe factor is love’, says a character from the second story of Halitha Shameem’s Sillu Karuppatti. The film oozes with philosophical lines about love that are placed in a realistic, timely manner in the four stories that depicts situational romance across different ages. In the first story, Pink Bag, Halitha explores the innocent affection between a teenage ragpicker and a rich girl. Maanja (Rahul), the teenaged ragpicker, begins to crush on Mity (Sara Arjun), a girl fr

Critic - No.177 Director: A.R.Murgadoss Produced by: Allirajah Subaskaran (Lyca Productions) Casts: Rajinikanth, Sunil Shetty, Nivetha Thomas, Nayanthara, Yogi Babu Language: Tamil Music: Anirudh Genre: Action SYNOPSIS:  Dehli commissioner, Aaditya Arunachalam (Rajinikanth) is tasked to end the drug menace in Mumbai that leads him on to face a most feared and ruthless mafia lord. REVIEW: After a masala treat in Petta, where Rajini bounced back to show his energetic styles in, expectations were sky high when one of the most successful commercial film director, AR Murgadoss was signed as his next director. Murgadoss is one director who knows how to perfectly balance commercialism with intelligence. Will Darbar land as a grand pinnacle of India’s most celebrated actor? The film starts off with a 80s style of warehouse fight where Rajini flies in and kills tons of gangsters mercilessly with much swag. Kudos to Ram-Laxman, Peter Hein for the exciting fight sequences that