Jude Anthany Joseph's third feature, after Ohm Shanti Oshana and Oru Muthassi Gadha, released on Prime Video at midnight today. This seemingly feel-good film, also seemingly made in limited spaces and with a shoestring budget, tackles a concept and issue never tested before in Malayalam cinema circles. In Sara'S, we follow the life of Sara Vincent (Anna Ben), a young, bubbly, yet unapologetic filmmaker who struggles to make it big in the industry. She continuously assists male directors and is in the scripting works of her dream film. Sara has decided, from her school days, that she would not bear any kids. This is when she meets Jeevan (Sunny Wayne); her relationship with him subsequently brings her ideology and decision into a confrontation with the established norms of society, family and child-rearing. Anna Ben in Sara'S The best aspect in which Sara'S has excelled, without doubt, is its hard-hitting taut script. Debutant Akshay Hareesh deserves praise for managin...
Netflix initiated a heavy marketing campaign for Karthik Subbaraj's next, Jagame Thanthiram , after securing its distribution rights, given that Dhanush was set to appear in the Russo Brothers' next for Netflix, The Gray Man, starring alongside bigwigs like Chris Evans and Ryan Reynolds. Other reasons for the hype were that Jagame Thanthiram was Karthik Subbaraj's next after his colossal mass entertainer Petta. Dhanush was back after his rather stellar outings in Karnan and Asuran. Movie-goers were promised a bloody, cacophonous gangster thriller with its teasers and trailer. But did the film satisfy these expectations? We find out in this review of Jagame Thanthiram. At the start of Jagame Thanthiram , we are introduced to the central characters of the film- Sivadoss (Joju George), an Eelam Tamil ganglord operating in London, Peter Sprott (James Cosmo), a white supremacist, affluent crime lord who lobbies for anti-immigration legislation, and finally, Suruli (Dhanush), ...