Despite its interesting premise, Ekkadiki Potaavu Chinnavaada (EPC) comes off as a half-hearted attempt made primarily to leverage the thriller-comedy genre craze. It’s neither adequately funny nor adequately embellished with the thriller elements. That is not to say there weren’t times when I was pushed to the edge of my seat, I was, but it was …
The pre-climax and climax sequences are a joke. I wonder why a film with a watchable first half had to progress like this post the intermission. I’m not saying it was going great until the halfway mark, but there’s nothing much to not like until then, either. Akkineni Naga Chaitanya and Gautham Menon team up …
First things first, I’m no big fan of Puri Jagannadh’s work (the much-hyped Pokiri included). A couple of films were watchable, sure, but that’s all really. ISM made enough noise in the fan circles of both Puri and Kalyanram but everyone else wasn’t really looking forward to the film. Honestly, I wanted to find out …
There is a particular reason why I loved the Malayalam Premam so much. It has probably got to do with the fact that I enjoy reading novels. Because like most well written novels, the original takes it time, slowly unwraps, sucks us into the character of George (Vikram in Telugu played by Naga Chaitanya), his …
