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Chemistry… Comfort? '#Love' trailer released!

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The trailer of '#Love', a web series directed by Balaji Mohan and featuring Soundarya Rajinikanth as showrunner and producer, focusing on modern love and relationships, has been released. Starring Arjun Das and Aishwarya Lakshmi in the lead roles, the series humorously and sensitively explores how love, dating, relationships, and feelings have changed in today's digital world. The trailer launch of the '#Love' series held in Chennai was attended by the film crew and celebrities from the film industry who shared their thoughts about the series. On this occasion Monica Srivastava from Netflix said... “#Love is Netflix’s first Tamil romantic drama series. Netflix continues to focus on South Indian stories. We want to offer different storylines, unique voices and new approaches, especially in Tamil works. In that sense, ‘#Love’ is a work that tells the story of love from a modern and playful perspective. '#Love' follows two rival dating app founders. One believe...

Movie Review : Dorothy

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 Karthi ( Rishikanth ) and Subbu ( Sananth ) are childhood friends. Over time their friendship grows even more solid.  Subbu enjoys the maternal affection of Karthi's mom, a single parent,  as his own mother and sister are dead. Karthi is influenced by the maculine traits, bravado and violence of Subbu's father (Muthukumar ) and elder brother (Soundarajan). But one day, in a curious change of circumstances, much against his will, Karthi is sent out to kill his best friend Subbu, at the behest of his own father. What circumstances led to this situation? Why is Subbu's family baying for his blood? Does  Karthi share their anger against his best friend? Does he succeed in killing Subbu? The film, Karthik Subbaraj's 10th, is set in a period setting in Madurai and showcases the violence, sense of patriarchy and rawness, long associated with the place as shown in Tamil cinema over the years.  The actors Rishikanth and Subbu bring out this  machoism and rawness w...

Movie Review: The Paradise

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  Shikanja Malik ( Mohan Babu) has a tight and cruel grip on the Savari tribe, exploiting them  to his ends, torturing them and treating them unfairly without basic rights. The tribe led by Sakamna is keen to get an identity via a ration card and voting rights, denied to them for  decades even after indepandance. Sakamma's son Sadayan ( Nani ) is jailed  as a teen, for a crime and when he returns home years later, he finds  the situation as bleak as ever, with no hope for change. But circumstances push Sadayan, (who hates his mother due to a past revelation of a secret) to take on her mantle to protect his people and free them from  Malik. But Paradise is a cruel place and the enemy is too powerful. Does Sadayan survive? Does he win and lead the people to freedom? The film has at its core, an interesting premise of a tribe seeking to fight the injustice done to them. But the way  director Srikant Odela using bloodied, gory , relentless violence and onl...