#CelluloidCritic

Critic - No.  182 Director: RJ Balaji & N.J. Saravanan Producer: Ishari K Ganesh (Vels Film International) Casts:  RJ Balaji, Nayanthara, Urvashi Language: Tamil Genre: Comedy / Fantasy Music: Girishh G   SYNOPSIS: A small-time TV reporter Engels Ramasamy (RJ Balaji), who has been gathering evidence to expose a self-styled godman for years, gets help from his ancestral Goddess Mookuthi Amman (Nayanthara) who appears in front of him one day. How does he utilise the situation to bring down the godman before the public? REVIEW: RJ Balaji, the co-director and main cast of the film has always been interested in discussing sensitive social and political topics, both offscreen and onscreen. After delivering a sleeper hit, LKG, Balaji returns again to whip another religious-political satire with an interesting satirical twist. As the synopsis suggests, the film has a mix of fantasy, comedy and some spoof kid of Goddess film trademarks we have seen in Indian cinema in the past decades.

Critic - No. 181 Director: Sudha Kongara Producer: Surya (2D Entertainment), Guneert Monga (Sikhya Entertainment) Casts:  Surya, Paresh Rawal, Aparna Balamurali, Urvashi, Mohan Babu, Language: Tamil Genre: Drama Music: G.V. Prakash Kumar   SYNOPSIS: Nedumaaran Rajangam (Surya) a.k.a "Maara", sets out to make the common man fly and takes on the world's most capital-intensive industry with the help of his friends, family and sheer power. REVIEW: Based on Captain GR Gopinath's novel, Simply Fly and other 'stories from the aviation industry', Sudha Kongara's Soorarai Pottru is an inspiring film about a common man who had big ambition.   The film revolves around Nedumaaran Rajangam (Suriya), the son of a school teacher (Poo Ramu) in a Madurai village, who decides to start a low-cost airline for the less privileged. His aspiration is challenged in all directions by Paresh Goswami (Paresh Rawal), a leader in the aviation industry, who ensures that his drea