KADAL / THE SEA (Mani Ratnam, 2013, India) – Good Vs. Evil
Tamil novelist and co-scriptwriter Jeyamohan describes Mani Ratnam’s latest cinematic venture as a ‘grand spiritual saga’. That seems like a fitting way to sum up Kadal / The Sea. Whenever…
Tag: Tamil Cinema
CHENNAI EXPRESS (Rohit Shetty, 2013, India) – Postmodern Masala
This is an uneven action comedy from the Manmohan Desai school of filmmaking. Director Rohit Shetty is one of Hindi cinema’s most bankable directors and while it is tempting at…
PIZZA (Dir. Kartik Subburaj, 2012, India) – Tamil New Wave Cinema
Pizza is a Tamil film pointed out to me in an article by K Hariharan titled ‘After the Cinema of Disgust’ in which he discusses the ‘renegade New Wave Tamil…
