Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Nishabdham, is a Telugu film in which silence could have been used better. Painter Sakshi, who speaks sign language and uses her cell phone text-to-voice translator to have a positive impact, has a protagonist with hearing and speech disability. The investigating police officer Mahalakshmi doubles up as the sutradhar (narrator) … Read more
The risk of criticism could increase for oh! baby. It’s not an easy movie to remake, and there are a lot of things that might have gone wrong. It’s no way to pull off a cranky old woman into an attractive young lady while still being the cranky old man at heart, and it can look … Read more
Awe, starring Kajal Aggarwal, Nithya Menen, and Regina Cassandra, will leave you amazed by Prasanth Varma, the debut director, with her technical genius, almost flawless writing, and sheer talent. The biker girl/psychiatrist (Nithya Menen), the girl-next-door (Esha Reba), the chef (Priyadarshi), the sorcerer (Murali Sharma), and a drug addict (Regina Cassandra)—Awe is the tale of … Read more
The Middle-Class Melodies of Vinod Anantoju have little to do with music; the melodies here relate to the common beats of Indian middle-class life. If it’s the cuss words that a father spews not out of hatred, but love or the way women struggle to balance and claim their rights when the time comes, no … Read more