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Quick Review - Evanukku Engeyo Macham Irukku

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by Rinku Gupta Touted to be an adult comedy EEMI stars Vemal and Singampuli as employees in a pharmacy. But  they moonlight as thieves by night who steal petty goods from locked homes. This act lands them in trouble one day when they steal a large stash of cash from a cop's 2 houses. This results in a mad chase for the duo with cop Poorna in hot pursuit along with the pharmacy owner, another cop whose cash they stole ( Mansoor Ali Khan) and a don character thrown in. Ashna Zaveri plays a Madurai ponnu who is Vemal's neighbour  and the duo spend some steamy moments together. Adult star Miya Rai Leone plays a forceful woman from London who uses Vemal as a boy toy and joins the chase for him along  with the others. The comedy does elicit its fair share of laughs but after a while the  constant chases and repetitive beatings the duo recieve get tedious to watch in the second half. Vemal as the reluctant boy toy had his fair share of romantic screen moments. Ashna looks al

Quick Review : Mortal Engines

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by Rinku Gupta Mortal Engines is a futuristic film featuring the idea of motorized moving cities on monstrous giant wheels, that tear into other cities in order to take over thier resources.  What happens when one person gets hold of a secret weapon that can help him conquer rich lands and become more powerful, is the story. The city of  London moving on wheels is the central character here, as it marches eastwards, in the grip of the evil, greedy Thaddeus,  to break a giant wall and devour new lands.   Based on the novel of the same name by Philip Reeve this is a post-apocalyptic adventure film directed by Christian Rivers.  The screenplay is set in a post-apocalyptic steam punk world h undreds of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event. A mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar), emerges as the only one who can stop London — now a giant, predator city on wheels — from devouring everything in its path.  Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan) is a sixt