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Review by Siddhartha on 28th June 2009 Yash Raj Film's "New York" is an emotional story that deals with the link between human emotions and its impact on terrorism. The story written by Aditya Chopra is a perfect potrait of few individuals who surivive in New York city post 9/11 terror attacks. The casting of actors for the lead roles is excellent as they perform their roles to perfection. The glitch in the entire movie might be its ending which could have been better and the same can be told of the american cast who come in supporting roles with reactions that does not sync with the situation nor with the charecter they have been assigned.Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 28th June 2009 
After "Subramaniapuram" the same team in Sasikumar and Samuthirakani have joined hands once again to give the audience a rustic village subject. The director had thought that handling a village subject will automatically appeal to the audience. But, in reality he had forgotten that whatever the subject may be it has to have a strong and crisp screenplay which is defenitely missing in this "Naadodigal". The movie begins on a casual note and later turns into a serious one but only after lots of dragging moments which could have been avoided.Read More
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Parijatham (1950) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 28th June 2009 Vintage Heritage the film club that always travels back in time showed Parijatham made in 1950 in its June edition that also marked its seventeenth anniversary. It is no mean achievement for V H considering the minimum support the organisers have had in running it. The film should not be confused with the recent flick directed by K.Bagyaraj bearing the same title. This is a T.R.Mahalingam-M.V.Rajamma and B.S.Saroja starrer. It looks like the film has three story lines. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 22nd June 2009 
"Muthirai" is a movie that as a viewer you would have loved to see if the director had put more thought process into the plot and to the screenplay. Unfortunately director Srinath decided to flick a hollywood style run and chase movie and then he added to it lots of skin show by the leading ladies to make it suit the local audience which actually does not go all that well in the end product. The movie infact has a very talented star cast which has not been utlised properly by the director and in the end all we get to see is a very average movie. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 11th June 2009 Vishal's latest flick "Thoranai" is a full-masala entertainer but the only issue with this entertainer is that the proportions to make the masala attractive has gone totally wrong. The movie is an age old story which is predominantly a cat and mouse game between the hero and few rowdies and at the same time he has a good-looking heroine to romance with. There is nothing new in this movie and infact in lot of the places the pace of the movie puts one to sleep. Vishal post his "Satyam" debacle was expected to choose a story which will put his drooping career back on track.Read More
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Angels And Demons Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 8th June 2009 
After the stupendous success of "Da Vinci Code" director Ron Howard has come up with his latest adaptation of Dan Brown's novel "Angels And Demons" which to be very honest is an entertaining film provided you as a viewer has not gone through the best selling novel by the same name. The movie which has been suitably modified to suit the cinematic audience is interesting and at the same time absolutely fantastic in the computer graphics department. The lead actors and the supporting cast have put in their best effort in making this movie a huge success. Read More
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Pattinathaar (1936) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 3rd June 2009 Vintage Heritage is a seventeen year old unique film club headed by M.Sarveswaran and Sundaram that shows old, that is, too old Tamil films every month to its members. On 31st May it showed the film Pattinathaar produced in 1936 by K.Sundaram under the banner Vel Pictures. Scripted and directed by T.C.Vadivel Naciker, Pattinathar is not only among the earliest of Tamil talkies (the first Tamil talkie Kalidas had come out in 1931) but the earliest extant Tamil talkie. In this sense it is in the league of the rarest of rare films. But alas, the existing version is not the original length of twenty one reels but a short one that plays for only about eighty minutes.Read More
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