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Film Review : Thuritham

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 Thuritham starring Sandaiyar fame Jegan, Eden and Bala Saravanan amongst others, is directed by Srinivasan. The film is, largely an interesting road journey. Jegan plays a call taxi driver who falls in love with an IT professional who is his passenger, played by Eden. But she doesn't reciprocate his love and due to a strict father in the village, she has to return him and marry a groom arranged by him later.  But due to a, series of unforseen circumstances, she has to take the help of Jegan and travel on his motobike, to get dropped off in her hometown.  A series of misadventures await the duo en route. What happens to them? Do they unite? Does the strict father find out about his daughter's undisclosed plan of the impromptu road trip?  The film is a collage of interesting snippets of life in cities and small towns, aspirations of people, the notions of 'love' and ' enjoyment' they harbour, the harsh realities faced by people caught up in  social structures, th

Film Review:SPIDER-MAN:ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

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The story is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the Spider-Verse. This is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) which was a computer-animated super hero film with the Marvel Comics’ character, Spider-Man. It was the first CGI/stop-motion animated film in the Spider-Man franchise. This is the 2nd film in the Spider-Verse trilogy.  In the U.S. the Spider-Man character is called Miles Morales; In India Spider-Man is called  Pavitr Prabhakar.  After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence.  But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, he finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most. He discovers that though anyone can wear the mask but it’s how you wear the mas