We have read reports in Indian newspapers that the Tamil Nadu government is providing a subsidy to Tamil movies. According to a report in the Hindu newspaper (dt July 8, 2008), the Tamil Nadu government has earmarked Rs 4.9 crore as subsidy for quality Tamil movies with Tamil names. Venkat Prabhu’s recent movie Saroja is […]
After sitting through the nightmare of Cheran’s Mayakkannadi, we entered the theatre to watch Raman Thediya Seethai with low expectations and came out mildly satisfied. Featuring Cheran, Pasupathy, Vimala Raman, Nithin Sathya, Manivannan, Ramya Nambeesan, Karthika and Navya Nair, Raman Thediya Seethai represents optical media storage and home entertainment company Moser Baer’s first foray into movie production. […]
Tamil film star Kamal Haasan has been a fixture on the screen for as long as we can remember. In an acting career spanning over five decades, Kamal Haasan has performed a variety of roles in Tamil, Telugu and, occasionally, even Hindi films. While Kamal Haasan is no Marlon Brando, the South Indian star is leagues […]
By God, how we hated this dungheap of a Tamil movie. Only God knows how much we loved the music in Kadhalan. Released in 1994, Kadhalan is a landmark Tamil movie that shows A.R.Rahman at the Himalayan heights of his career. Truth be said but for Rahman’s music and Prabhu Deva’s dances, Kadhalan would have […]
(The below post is based on a tip from Satya, a regular reader of the SearchIndia.com blog. Thanks.) The thieving scumbags of the Tamil movie industry have done it again – they have stolen a nice Hollywood movie called Judgment Night (1993, Director: Stephen Hopkins), made a few cosmetic changes and called it Saroja. First […]
To describe Chennai Kadhal (2007) as a pathetic piece of shit would be a grave error – because this movie is infinitely worse. Featuring two youngsters Bharat and Genelia D’Souza, Chennai Kadhal is a sophomoric love story, the horrible likes of which have never disgraced a movie screen anywhere before. With a hopelessly asinine and implausible […]