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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Under the Shandow


This is one gem of a horror movie which should not be missed. This movie proves that we do not need expensive visual effects to scare. This is a simple story of a family n the background of Iran-Iraq war. The movie starts off as a political movie and moves on as a family drama and slowly builds up the tension. The way all these elements are cohesively increasing the tension is impressive.

When all the families in the apartment vacate leaving the mother and daughter alone we can feel their loneliness.

This movie doesn't give any reasons for the demons to do what they do which adds to the tension.

A satisfying scary watch.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Petta

The previous post was on 2.0 and this is my view on Petta. I don't think such a thing has happened in the past where two consecutive posts were reviews on a Rajini movie. Rajini's movies were once in a blue moon event but he broke that in 2018 by giving three movies within a short time.

My expectations from his movies has not been met for a long time. I guess it is because of the huge expectations. Even Shankar's movie's didn't satisfy me. The problem is I do not know what to expect and that could well be one of the reasons.

There is lot of negative publicity around Rajini movies especially post Baba. Chandramukhi managed to survive it but right from Sivaji there has been attempt to create negative images through talks about his movies making losses. It peaked in Linga to an extent people like to forget that such a movie was made. But if you ask me Linga was a decent attempt compared to some of the recently celebrated movies.

Now social media is filled with so called trackers who give some vague numbers as collections for all movies. Every instance is used to belittle Rajini but still he manages to overcome such negativeness.

Petta is definitely the best among his recent releases. Especially I could hear Rajini's voice also making a come back in full force. The first half is filled with such wonderful moments.

The second half starts well but at some point becomes tedious and shows traces of becoming a standard 80's 90s tamil movie with climax fight but it is kept alive by some of the twists that happens in the story.

One negative point is the number of characters and the threads in the movie can distract us. Another negative is the villain. Vijay Sethupathi didn't look like villain and Nawazzudin looked meek.

There were lot of positives through which makes it an interesting viewing. The first positive is Rajini and his energy followed by Anirudhs songs and music. Karthiks twists keeps the movie from being another ordinary movie. The DOP is great. Though Simran comes in few scenes she looks beautiful.

It is definitely a treat for Thalaivar fans.

But being Rajinikanth becomes difficult as there is lot of politics happening behind the scene to create an image that Rajinikanth is losing his popularity. Whether Rajini will come out of all these things triumphantly like in his movies is something we have to wait and watch 

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