Harish Film views

Director; Lokesh Kanagaraj No movie is perfect when looked through a magnifying lens. As we sit in front of the screen, the mind fights with the film-maker to avoid suspending disbelief. The struggle settles the minute when there is something interesting/ unseen/ or fresh on the silver screen. With the audience in a trance, the filmmaker only has to keep supplying those 'spikes' at regular intervals. Did this happen to me while watching Vikram? Unfortunately, no. It was an inconsistent film, IMO, that kept on breaking the invisible connection between my eyes and the screen. The film begins on a high with the signature step of Kamal. After the dishonest Vishwaroopam-2, it was gratifying to see Kamal enjoying on screen. When the film went into investigative mode, I sat up at the ingenious way the generic investigative procedural was flipped on its head as the past & present walked together. Soon enough the film shifted gear to an action thriller, which is when I started losin...

Director: Selvaraghavan Selvaraghavan's films post Pudhupettai, for reasons best known to him, traverse between goose bumps inducing and vein popping moments. While the ingenious plot in the second half of Aayirathil Oruvan overshadows its shortcomings, Mayakkam Ena disorients me by juxtaposing between nerve wrenching silly moments and heart drenching emotional sequences.  Over the period of these two movies, having observed the inconsistency of Selva's narrative grammar, I became prepared not to be bogged down by the leads' forced comic moments with their supporting casts. Accepting his narrow minded approach to acting for what it is, that which can be convincingly portrayed only by Danush, this time around I also didn't bother about the uniformly terrible acting his casts were going to display. Also, the incomplete backdrops, blind eye to details or shallow grandeur that goes in vain weren’t my concern. Because, I realised, in a Selva movie, the tools for...