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3 (2012) Director: Aishwarya Dhanush Casts: Dhanush, Shruthi Hassan, Siva Karthigeyan, Sundar Ramu Music: Anirudh Language: Tamil Genre: Romance Introduction ‘Why this Kolaveri’ have become a tag line to this romantic thriller ‘3’ which marks the directorial debut of Aishwarya Dhanush, thanks to the minimalistic promotional video which was released few months back. After a 50 million over hits in the YouTube, the film’s expectations have been sky high. To reach further, the young team also released 4 trailers and 4 teasers which maximised the promotional strength of ‘3’. So has ‘3’ lived up to its incidentally gained hype? Quick Synopsis:   ‘3’ starts off with a flashback mode, travelling back to the college lives of Ram (Dhanush) and Janani (Shruthi) where they fall in love at first sight. After much cute incidents and attempts, Janani too declares her love for Ram. The film then moves on to the early 20s of the couple’s life and they get married,...

KAZHUGU (2012) Director: Sathyasiva Casts: Krishna, Bindu Madhavai, Thambi Ramaiah, Karunas Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja Language: Tamil Genre: Romantic Thriller Introduction Kazhugu is a dark themed comedic thriller set in Kodaikanal, India directed by debutant Sathyasiva and performed by Krishna, Bindu Madhavi, Karunas, Thambi Ramaiah and Jayaprakash. Kazhugu, stands out in his interesting premise threading around the people who retrieve corpses of people who have committed suicide 4000m down the hills of Kodaikanal. A unique backdrop which is safe to say that have not been explored in films yet. So how far have debutant Sathyasiva handled and executed this theme? Quick Synopsis: Kazhugu starts of by establishing the lives of a carefree youngster Sera (Karthik) and his friends Shanmugam (Thambi Rammaya) and Nandu (Karunas) who work as corpse retrievers from the suicide point at Kodaikanal hills. One of such corpse happens to be Kavi’s (Bindu Madhavi) s...

Kahaani (2012) Director: Sujoy Ghosh Casts: Viday Balan, Parambrata, Nawazuddin Music: Vishal - Shekhar Language: Hindi Genre: Thriller After having a decent record with Aladdin, Sujoy Ghosh is back with an edgy thriller and now with the current happening National award winner, Vidya Balan. With the promotions promising an emotional drama and Vidya Balan stating that her character in Kahaani is a milestone in her career, expectations were sky-high on this film. Does Kahaani sustain its interest generated in the pre talks? Kahaani is a story of Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) who travels to Kolkata from London in search of her missing husband who stopped contacting her from his workplace, National Data Centre. With the help of a police officer, Satyoki (Parambrata), she starts her search deep and to a rude shock, all claim that there is no such person. To make things worse, another person named, Milan Damji who has the same appearance as her husband is on the r...