Amaran is effective as a intimate, well researched piece of storytelling but does not try to break any new ground, observes Arjun Menon.
SRK and Aamir Khan lose out to Prakash Raj, among others.
Coming of age dramas, mind twisting thrillers, slice-of-rural life, here's everything you can watch on OTT this week.
Prithviraj talks about his films and his role in Mani Ratnam's Raavan.
800 gets so lost in celebrating its grand subject that it forgets something pretty elementary: Cricket is a team sport!, notes Sreehari Nair.
Radhika Rajamani pays tribute to the legendary film producer Daggubati Ramanaidu who breathed his last on February 18.
There are a whole lot of cop-themed movies on OTT this week.
'...without looking into yourself.' 'What matters most is human relationships and the human mind.'
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) founder-leader and actor Vijayakanth passed into the ages in Chennai, aged 71, after testing positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
In Tamil Nadu, the alternative to one Dravidian party has been another, and for one actor-politician CM, there is another. Their initial popularity may owe to their filmi charisma, but their continued acceptance owed to their government's policies and programmes targeting the poor and the needy in the state, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'There are days when I hardly get to see my child.' 'But there are days when I do absolutely nothing and only spend time with him.'
Sasikumar on producing the National Award winning Tamil film.
If the people of Tamil Nadu stop deifying their leaders and start evaluating them more objectively, the political masters too may change their wayward behaviour, argues Sudhir Bisht.
'Success is in the hands of the audience. I learn from what they like or dislike, and take the next step further.'
And possibly in all of Asia, going by his reported fee of Rs 275 crore for Thalapathy 69, his coming movie.
Top Tamil actor Vijay on Friday announced the launch of his political party, Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam, and said he will contest the 2026 assembly polls in the state.
The very timing of the Phalke Award on Rajini now, days ahead of Tamil Nadu voting in the assembly election, may have taken away the seriousness and credibility attaching to the Centre's decision, making it sound every bit political, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Director M Saravanan talks about making an action thriller with Ivan Veramathiri.
Sports drama, spy thriller, haunted houses and many more films and shows you can catch on OTT this week.
Director Karthik Subbaraj is elated as his film Jigarthanda is a smash hit.
A fascinating excerpt from Amborish Roychoudhury's book, Sridevi: The South Years.
Amazon Prime Video has announced a huge number of assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
Gujarat Titan's Sai Sudharsan is the quickest Indian in terms of innings to reach 1,000 runs in IPL.
Cricket, time travel, artificial intelligence, haunted homes, World War II -- it's all there on OTT this week.
After Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, it's time for another magnum opus to spread its wings into the regional market.
What is noticeable in both movies is the willingness with which both the ageing stars -- Kamal is 68 and Rajini, four years older at 72 with a kidney transplant that he has not shied away from acknowledging -- have learnt to respect their age and bodies, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Tamil film industry.
Spooky spirits, identical twins, camping beagles, Game of Thrones spin-offs and the mad, MAD world of Bollywood, Sukanya Verma lists everything you can catch on OTT this week.
The list of guests included celebrities from across the globe, politicians, the who's who of Hindi and south Indian cinema world and almost all the top cricketers of the country.
Choose from the eight releases this week.
Everything from casting, art direction, styling, dialogues and music of this dark comedy about a south Indian cowboy is near perfect.
A tribute to one of Indian cinema's most prolific filmmakers K Balachander, who passed away at the age of 84 on December 23.
Representatives of the Tamil film industry on Friday began an eight-hour-long fast at Chepauk in Chennai, condemning the attacks on cinemas screening Tamil films, by pro-Kannada groups protesting Tamil Nadu's decision to go ahead with the Hogenekal water project.Wearing badges to show their opposition to the project and their pride in Tamil culture, scores of personalities including actors Vijay Kumar and Radha Ravi and leading technicians participated in the fast.
A new entrant, whether a popular actor or not, has not been able to sweep the polls, as their fans had hoped for. Given a proven pattern, it should hold true for Vijay as well. Or, something drastically has to happen between now and 2026, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Elections and audience interest in specific movies are often independent factors.'
From Vijay's fiery latest to atom bomb origins, brace yourself for some explosive action on OTT this week.
Flight attendants, football coaches, renegade robots, underwater superheroes, it's all there on OTT this week.
The Tamil Nadu government has told the Supreme Court it has not issued any order imposing a "shadow or implicit ban" on The Kerala Story, a multilingual film that has triggered a massive controversy over religious conversions.
