Tamil Nadu Lifts Ban on Vishwaroopam

The Madras High Court lifted the ban on Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam a few minutes back (around 10PM IST). This means that Tamils, who make up the majority of the glorious state of Tamil Nadu, unjustly deprived of seeing the film for the last five days can now watch it. The state government banned Vishwaroopam after […]

Race 2 Box Office – Crap Sells

The distressing aspect of trashy Indian movies is not that they get made. But that they find such eager takers. If South Indians find solace in junk like Thupakki, North Indians find their salvation in trash like Dabanng 2, Rowdy Rathore and, lately in, Race 2. Race 2, which debuted on January 25 in the […]

Race 2 Review – Slick Junk

Cherry, I don’t have time to pop your cherry – RD (Anil Kapoor) to his dimwitted assistant Cherry (Ameesha Patel) in Race 2 Race 2 follows the odious tradition of its five-year-old predecessor Race in shoveling out manure by the truck-load. Given our extreme dissatisfaction with Race (2008), we went in, braving the mid-Atlantic chill […]

Vishwaroopam Review – A Daring Attempt

By Naveen Unless you are living in a shack in Siberia, you would know that Kamal Haasan has made a movie called Vishwaroopam. The movie was banned one day before its release in Kamal’s home state of Tamil Nadu and as a result of the ban there is chaos and confusion in the traditional media, […]

Alas, Kollywood is So Short of Men

Vishwaroopam Review – A Daring Attempt Oh, what a shame! No Men in Kollywood When the Tamil Nadu government was raping Kamal Haasan and his film Vishwaroopam on specious, flimsy grounds, the Tamil film industry (Kollywood) proved it’s woefully short of men! I can’t recollect seeing a single leading star coming to Kamal Haasan’s defense. […]