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Movie Review: Garudan

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 Adi ( Sasikumar) and Karuna (Unnimikundan) are orphaned as kids.  Due to this,  they share a deep bond and become best friends, living in Kombai village in  Theni mavattam.  Sokkan ( Soori) another orphan, becomes their friend as well   He is very close to Karuna  who had been kind to him,  and will do anything for him. Appatha (Vadivukkarasi) looks after them all. She is also the Kombai Amman temple trustee in the village. Sokkan loves a milkmaid girl ( Revathy Sharma). Karuna has no children while Adi is happily  married ( to Shivadha)and  has 2 kids.  Karuna's wife's brother (Dushyanth) is  in love with Parveen ( Brigida Saga) who gets pregnant.  So  Karuna arranges their wedding much against the wishes of his father-in-law. Muthuvel ( Samuthirakani) is a local cop who gets involved in an illegal agenda of a politico ( RV Udhayakumar) who hatches a plan to usurp some temple land in Chennai, the old ownership ...

Movie Review : The Akaali

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 Sowmya Devarma ( Swayam Siddha) is the investigating officer of Police Interanal affairs division. She interviews officer Hamzah Rahman about a sinister case that dates back to 2016, involving a sinister cult and killings which  had links between a series of bizarre rituals in the  Janice murders. Hamzah reveals how a clue relating to  Janice led to a series of discoveries due to which,  an officer, Selvam ( Arjai) became deranged. A reporter Charles has solid clues of  the murders by the cult, discovered Hamzah.  Hamzah's journey leads him to a surprise discovery leading to satan worship and occult practices. What role does  a priest ( Nasser) play in all of this? Why are certain people targetted? Is this a case of drugs, human traficking or the occult?  The film traverses a vast landscape of premises from occult practices and drugs to mind control,  and deranged people with greed for power. The actors do their best and each of them de...