Priya Anand

Singam - 2 stills

Singam 2 is an Tamil action - masala movie directed by Hari, starring Suriya, Anushka Shetty and Hansika Motwani in the lead roles, while Vivek and Santhanam play supporting roles. This movie is the sequel to Singam and will be produced by S Lakshman Kumar . It is expected to release simultaneously in Telugu as Yamudu 2.

Kangana Ranaut

Genelia

Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru

In Tamil, recently comedy movies are giving big hits. Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya and Soodhu Kavvum are such comedy movies. Theeya velai seiyanum kumaru is also made in telugu as something something. Sundar C is known for providing a good time to audiences at the theaters. He has an enviable track record over the past decade or two and last year he proved that he hadn’t lost his touch, with the superhit Kalakalappu, produced by the same makers of Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (TVSK) - Avni Cinemax and UTV Motion Pictures. In TVSK, it isn’t your typical Sundar C setting as the director has based his tale in an IT company and around an urban youngster, Kumar, who takes the services of a love guru (Mokia) to floor the lady of his dreams (Sanjana). Kumar is from a family of romantics, having a long history of love marriages. He isn’t an expert at handling women and it requires the entry of a dream girl such as Sanjana, for him to realize the unrelenting romantic within him. But he spends insane amounts of money as service charge, to achieve his goal. The casting is good and Hansika as Sanjana looks her best till date. The ‘Azhagendral Aval Dana’ song seems really apt for this young beauty queen and she is all dolled up in the songs and provides the necessary oomph which is mandatory in all Sundar C movies. Siddharth is perfect as the underdog ‘next door’ hero who makes all the efforts to impress the woman he desires. Ganesh Venkatraman (referred to as ‘Gymku pona Gemini Ganesan’) looks hunky as the man who is envied by his colleagues in the office. He doesn’t have much to do after the interval. Santhanam is the dominant presence as expected and after the interval, when we come to know of the twist in his equation with Hansika, things really heat up. He looks dashing as Mokia, the high profile love guru who charges a bomb and even gives tips to the likes of Arya and Vishal. The elaborate support cast is in top form and they deliver their share of laughs. RJ Balaji talks like none other and the speed of his puns and funny one-liners is impressive. ‘Forever bald’ Bosskey (referred to as ‘Anytime Motta’ by Santhanam), the ever-thin Mano Bala (addressed with nicknames such as Nataraj Pencil, Ice Cream Kucchi) and the loud but funny Vidyu Raman are among the actors who make a mark. Devadarshini is for a change not speaking the Tamil Brahmin lingo on screen. The film leaves no room for boredom.

Vedika

Soodhu Kavvum - Review

After hit films like Attakathi and Pizza, producer CV Kumar is back with his third venture, Soodhu Kavvum. It has been directed by debutant Nalan Kumarasamy, one of the talents of Naalaiya Iyakkunar, a reality show for aspiring directors.
Soodhu Kavvum stars Vijay Sethupathy and Sanchita Shetty, alongwith MS Bhasker, Ramesh, Simhaa, Ashok, arunakaran, Yog Japee and Radha Ravi in significant roles.
It is a norm in Tamil cinema to create a grand opening scene for the lead actor like a thrilling chase-and-rescue mission or daredevil stunts or a peppy dance number.  The opening scene in Soodhu Kavvum, however, has our hero Dass (Vijay Sethupathy) getting beaten up by a teenage girl with volleyball after a failed attempt at kidnapping. This hilarious scene has the audience in splits and sets the mood for the movie.Dass, a small-time smuggler, wants to graduate to the next level, kidnapping, which he believes is more exciting and lucrative.  Upset by his failed attempt, he goes to the bar to vent out some steam. He finds himself in the company of three desperate jobless friends Pagalavan (Simhaa), Kesavan (Ashok) and Sekhar (Ramesh).

Dass convinces them that he has the perfected the art of kidnapping and asks them join him. Having no other alternative, they do. Soon they become successful, and can pull off a series of kidnapping without any hitches. Things move smoothly until one day, they decide to raise the stakes and kidnap a inister’s son.  What follows is complete mayhem, and the real fun begins. A very peculiar, but extremely lovable character in the film is Shalu (Sanchita Shetty), who plays the love interest of Dass.  What is exceptional about this character is that it is not real; Shalu is a figment of his imagination and is visible only to him. The sexy Shalu is the ideal male fantasy, who evokes a lot of laughter with her absurd dialogues and action. What sets the film apart is that in spite of being a comedy film, there are no typical comic one-liners or forced comic situations.  The predicament of the characters provides the comic element to the film.  Even the most serious dialogues in the gravest situations make the audience laugh uncontrollably. With every film that he has acted in, Vijay Sethupathy has always managed to raise the bar to an entirely new level.  As a grey-haired, 40-year old with psychotic tendencies, speaking broken English, Vijay Sethupathy in Soodhu Kavvum is truly unbelievable. There is some good all around performance, especially Simhaa and Ramesh, who manage to steal the show with their unpretentious and honest performance.

Trisha

Riya Sen

Rachna Mauriya

Anjali

Mahira Khan

Madhu Shalini