Bollywood – international shorthand for Indian movies – exerts a bigger hold on the Indian psyche than even cricket. India probably makes more movies – mostly pathetic, occasionally unwatchable and rarely interesting – than any other country. And that is when Indian movie-makers are not brazenly stealing successful Hollywood plots. India has a vibrant movie […]
Billa II Review – Frustratingly Bad The big question on most Tamil movie lovers’ minds must surely be whether Ajith’s Billa is a Flop, Ultimate Flop or a Super Hit at the box office. There has been a lot of comparison between the new Billa and Rajnikant’s mega hit Sivaji with some over-enthusiastic folks erroneously claiming that Billa […]
Billa II Review – Frustratingly Bad As far as we can tell, Tamil movie superstar Rajnikanth has led a stellar and dignified life except for two big follies. Rajnikanth’s first folly happened sometime in 1979 or 1980, when he disgraced himself with his bad behavior at an airport in South India around the time of […]
One of the most awaited Tamil movies of 2007 – Billa – is finally hitting the big screen on December 14 (Click here for Billa movie showtimes in USA). Featuring Ajith, Nayantara and Namitha, the new Billa is a remake of the old Billa (itself a remake of the Hindi film Don) starring Rajnikant and Sripriya. The […]
Kollywood’s Young General (a.k.a Ilayathalapathy in Tamil) Vijay must be crying himself silly into his beer over the sorry fate of his recent movie Azhagiya Tamil Magan. This much anticipated movie of our self-styled Young General turned out to be a disgraceful affront to his fans and has deservedly met with a less than enthusiastic […]
Vel featuring Surya, Asin and Vadivelu is a little better than Azhagiya Tamil Magan but that’s small consolation for Tamil movie fans. Vel’s biggest weakness is its pedestrian, beaten to death simplistic story of two brothers separated when young and growing up separately. Repeated in Hindi, Tamil and other Indian language films ad nauseum ad infinitum […]