Mini Review of Movies released this week
A guide to all the movies that released this weekend. Read the reviews and take your pick!
Katti Batti: Cut the crap, please!
Katti Batti could have been an important film. Designed to exploit Kangana Ranaut’s rebellious image, it is a film which examines the perks of a live-in relationship. It is also a film which tries to put a girl in control of the relationship. In a role reversal of sorts, she wants the relationship to be a time pass when the boy is looking for eternal love. When he talks of values, the lissom lass doesn’t want to be a lesson in moral science. Here the boy uses phrases like main ghabra gaya tha while the girl has the acumen to hide her pain so that her man doesn’t suffer. Unfortunately, director Nikhil Advani fails to package it properly. Read Anuj Kumar’s review of Kangana Ranaut-starrer here.
Trisha Illana Nayanthara: An okayish sex comedy where the joke is on the hero
Adhik Ravichandran, the director of Trisha Illana Nayanthara, loses little time in establishing that his film is indeed the adolescent-male fantasy that the trailers promised. At a time when films claim they are made for ‘family audiences’ despite having the worst innuendos, here’s someone being honest — he’s saying his film is strictly for adults. But why, then, waste so much time on songs and a soggy romantic subplot where actor tries to prove he truly loves actress? Baradwaj Rangan writes.
Maya: A horror film that’s loyal to the genre
Maya is an exercise in both horror and mise en abyme. It’s one of those rare Tamil films, like Uttama Villain, that you can talk so much about on your way back home. The film alternates between two stories (one shown in black and white, and the other in colour): One’s about Vasanth (Aari), an artist, who learns about a forest called Mayavanam, and how it was once home to a mental asylum, in which patients — one among them, Maya Mathews — were used as guinea pigs for horrific scientific experiment; and the other’s about Apsara (Nayanthara), an orphan mother of a one-year-old baby, and an actress struggling to make ends meet. Read the review here.
Courier boy Kalyan: A good plot, but…
Courier Boy Kalyan has a run time of less than two hours and the plot has all the necessary elements that could make for an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Any film that veers off the formulaic track is a welcome change and worth rooting for. At the same time, it’s a letdown if it turns out to be a wasted opportunity. Debut director Premsai takes a thread from David Koepp’s Premium Rush — of a bicycle messenger being chased around New York for an envelope in his possession — and gives it a local twist, a different web of crime.
The film opens in Bucharest where Ashutosh Rana is turning his back on medical ethics and making regular patients suffer for the benefit of the elite who cough up a fortune. Read the review here.
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Source:Thehindu
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