Bhuvanesh Chandar

3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Bhuvanesh Chandar

Should a family only be a pillar to support us, or can we ever look at it as a social unit made up of independent lives? Does marriage by design lead to familial bonds? If not, when does a relationship truly feel like family? Also, why should a couple’s worth rest on their ability to rear children? These are some of the questions you might ponder while watching Prasanth Pandiyaraj’s Maaman, starring Soori and Aishwarya Lekshmi.

3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Bhuvanesh Chandar

“Vandhorai vaazhavaikkum Chennai.” When actor Soori came to Chennai in 1996, the city may have tested his belief in that idiom, which loosely translates to ‘Chennai shelters all those who seek.’ When asked what this city has meant to him, Soori gets nostalgic about his days of struggle, reminiscing about a time when, he says, the film industry wasn’t even visible to people who moved to Chennai with celluloid dreams.

3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Bhuvanesh Chandar

Tamil actor Soori, awaiting the release of Maaman, on Tuesday responded to the criticism that his 2024 film Kottukkaalireceived and opened up on whether he would take on another such experiment. For the unversed, the film’s director, PS Vinothraj, had stated that Soori may never do another Kottukkaali. The 2024 film earned critical acclaim globally and did phenomenally in the festival circuit. Even upon its release in India, critics hailed it as one of the best films of the year.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Bhuvanesh Chandar

There’s something about Karthik Subbaraj’s audacious mixing of genres that makes you sit up every time. His narratives often hint at taking a less trodden path — remember how a social drama encapsulated the gangster saga in Jigarthanda Double X? With Retro, the filmmaker spun a googly even before the release, calling the Suriya-starrer a ‘love story’ while the promo material teased a violent gangster world. This, of course, is a common fusion in cinema.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Bhuvanesh Chandar

That David F Sandberg, the director of Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation, is returning to horror should pique your interest. But the hype behind his latest film adaptation of the Until Dawn video game had to be studied. Having not played the original game, it was only right that I researched what the deal was all about, and boy, did Sandberg land upon a gold mine of material that lets him flex his genre-filmmaking muscles.