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Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 17th July 2009 
"Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince" which is the sixth edition in the potter saga is a visual treat to the audience. The makers of this potter movie had decided to make sure that the crazy fans get their money's worth and at the same time the interest in the plot is not lost by virtue of its onscreen adaptation. All said and done its a very difficult task to be faithful to a novel that has driven the whole world crazy and credit should be given to the makers for it. The special effects are brilliant but the major spoiler is the screenplay. Read More
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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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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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Review by Siddhartha on 16th May 2009 
Director Vishnu Vardhan after his brilliant "Billa" was expected to deliver another intresting and a racy entertainer in Ayangran International's "Sarvvam" but in the end one feels totally let down by Vishnu in all aspects. Sarvvam which was widely publicised as a thriller turns out to be a damp squib. The director has handled a wafer thin-plot in a very poor way and the major saving grace for the movie is the brilliant cinematography by Nirav Shah and the songs by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Arya after his commercially disastrous "Naan Kadavul" has done nothing new in this movie. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 4th May 2009 Director M.Sasi Kumar after his scintillating "Subramaniapuram" has produced this realistic movie which has been directed by debutant Pandiraj. This movie is different from others for the reason that there are no heroes in the movie and the entire story revolves around the kids and their mindset they develop during their early days in school. The commercial films which has a said formula has been pushed back by this movie which has many talented children making their debut on silver screen. Pasanga is a movie taken for the children and for most part of it the essence of the story remains the same void of any commercial elements.Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 26th April 2009 
Amma Creations after their successful comeback film "Saroja" have produced this heavy weight "Mariyathai" (Respect) that has Vijayakanth in the lead and Vikraman as the captain of the ship handling the story, screenplay, dialogues and direction. The duo who had made the super hit "Vaanathai Pola" years back has made an unsuccessful attempt to re-create the same old magic at the box-office. The story has got nothing new to offer nor the screenplay which has the trademark Vikraman's stamp that fails to kindle any interest amongst the viewers. Read More
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Arundhati (Tamil) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 13th April 2009 "Arundhati" directed by Kodi Ramakrishna is a supernatural thriller which has its main lead Arundhati (Anushka) taking revenge on her nemesis. Arundhati has her marriage fixed with Rahul (Deepak) and days before her marriage she comes to her ancestral home in Kandharva Kottai. History would have it, decades earlier arundhati gets rid of a womaniser Pasupathi (Sonu Sood) and have him locked in a fort which is not frequented by anyone. Pasupathi's spirit vows to take revenge on Arundhati and three generations later the spirit comes back to keep up its word and what follows later is the evil cat and mouse game between the two. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 6th April 2009 
Ayan which has hit the screens lately is not an ideal follow-up for the emotionally captivating "Vaaranam Aayiram" which was Surya's last release. Ayan is a must watch if you as a viewer like the larger than life hero bashing up the bad guys and simultaneously romancing the beautiful girl available around. The movie begins on a very classy note where Deva (surya) walks out of the immigration counter at the Chennai International Airport only to find out within minutes that he is a pirated CD smuggler who knows the nuances of sneaking pirated goods through customs. Read More
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One Man's Treasure (2009) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 5th April 2009 If the movie name "One Man's Treasure" gives you an idea that it would be an adventorous one involving some sort of treasure hunt or if you were expecting a movie on the lines of "National Treasure", well be prepared because this movie is about finding a treasure but the treasure is of a different kind. An average adventurous movie but the plot on the whole does not excite much especially if one sits to watch this one with some sort of interesting expectations. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 31st March 2009 
Deepa Mehta's "Videsh" is a movie which stands to the expectations from a director who has been very good at handling sensitive themes that are predominantly woman-centric. Even in her previous movies like "Fire", "Earth" and a few more the distinct fact is that the woman in the movie is the one who happens to be in the thick of things. If her previous films dealt with different issues, "Videsh" deals with domestic violence, and by casting preity zinta deepa mehta has hit the bull's eye in terms of an actor who understands the charecter and performs on screen. Read More
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Zack And Miri Make A Porno Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 29th March 2009 What happens when you are completely broke and you don't have any means to work your way out? Well! according to Zack And Miri just make a porn movie and make money out of it.
Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are college friends who live together to overcome the bad credit position they find themselves in. They are in such a bad situation in life where there is no elctricity and water in their home due to non-payment of bills. At this point of time to bring their lives back on track they face a dilemma on how to earn money and they decide upon the idea of making a porn movie and end their ordeal with mounting debts. Read More  | |||||||||
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Review by Siddhartha on 13th March 2009 
Madhavan who has been associated mostly with the romance genre type of movies has come up with a completely matured performance in this thriller genre and to be very honest he has been quite sucessful too. The director Vikram K Kumar must be given the complete credit for making this movie with lots of eerie feel and this movie does keep you at the edge of your seat throughout and at times shakes you out of it too.
A simple story line complimented with an amazing screenplay and terrific performances from the actors, this movie makes you sit through without any trouble. Read More | |||||||||
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Behind Enemy Lines Colombia (2009) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 9th March 2009 20th Century Fox presents "Behind Enemy Lines Colombia" is an action packed movie right from the start till finish. Its pretty sad that this movie was taken or rather could be released on the video version only. The director of the movie Tim Matheson has made an extensive study about the prevailing conditions in colombia and the support given by the americans in dealing with the revolts happening there.This 93 minute movie keeps you on the edge of the seat for most part of the action. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 21st February 2009 After "Rang De Basanti" its director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra was expected to come up with a movie that was more interesting and revolutionary. "Delhi 6" is a revolutionary movie with an important message for every human being, but on the whole there is nothing much interesting in this latest flick which was one of the most awaited movies of the year and even with its terrific star cast it fails to re-create the same magic which "Rang De Basanti" did a few years ago. Even Abhishek's style and Sonam Kapoor's elegance fails to save this movie. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 16th February 2009 
"The Reader" based on the best selling novel "Der Vorleser (The Reader)" by Bernhard Schlink is a wonderful tale of human emotions and compulsions. The movie which has gained critical acclaim world over is a powerful potrayal of human sentiments.
The movie begins in 1995 and within moments trails into flashback to 1958 in Neustadt, West Germany where 15 year old Micheal (David Kross) feeling sick at the bottom of the block of flats where he is attended by Hana Schmitz (Kate Winslet) a tram conductor by profession who is in her mid 30s. He is very thankful to her for the care he is being tendered at that moment. Read More | |||||||||
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Thick As Thieves (2009) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 14th February 2009 Millenium Films "Thick As Thieves" is a very interesting movie set in Russia about a master thief recruiting a very notorious thief to steal two famous faberge eggs from a highly secure vault in order to repay his debt to the russian mob. When the master thief and the notorious thief play double game over the other, there is no short of thrills in this movie.
When the master thief proves to his recruit how smart he is and in turn when the recruit shows his other side the master proves his mettle. Gabriel (Antonio Banderas) decides to rob in a train where a group of russian jewellers travel with a prized possession and during the robbery Keith Ripley (Morgan Freeman) gets fascinated by his precision at work. Read More  | |||||||||
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Dead Like Me (2009) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 10th February 2009 
Metro Golden Mayer's "Dead Like Me" is a movie based on the concept that a suffering soul will be relieved of his/her life by the reapers. Though the concept is unnatural the way the movie has been made is pretty ordinary and not to mention the graphics where the demons appear to make the final blow to the parting soul.
The movie begins with the theory of evolution of death and a pretty imaginative theory one should say and a self-narrative of the reapers and their role in helping the suffering soul part with their lives. Read More | |||||||||
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Review by Siddhartha on 7th February 2009 "Naan Kadavul" (I am God) one of the most anticipated movies of recent times in tamil cinema has lot of credits up its sleeve. "Naan Kadavul" was in the making for three years, the movie has changed hands to three producers and the hero of the movie Arya's (spelt as Aarya in the movie) next major release "Sarvam" is likely to hit the theatres in three weeks time.
The movie no doubt is a trademark Bala film. The artists have taken this opportunity to showcase their real acting talent in such a way that they have gone deep into the charecters assigned to them. Read More  | |||||||||
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While She Was Out Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 4th February 2009 
Redwood Palms Pictures "While She Was Out" is a very boring adaptation of a short story written by Edward Bryant. The director Susan Montford decided to make this movie just because he would have thought that the target audience would be awed by the subject. Though the main crux of the movie is pretty normal the treatment meeted out to the screenplay has been pathetic.
The movie supposedly on the thriller genre hardly has any thrilling scenes in it. Most of the movie is easily predictable and when this happens the whole eagerness towards the movie fades out. Read More | |||||||||
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Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 1st February 2009 
"Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu" is an interesting movie where the entire story set in a rural village near pazhani keeps the audience glued to their seats for most part of the movie.
If "Chennai 600028, Lagaan" were about cricket and "ChakDe" was about hockey "Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu" is about Kabadi. The story is about a kabadi group known as vennila and the struggle they undergo in life. The movie with lot of new faces except the talented Saranya Mohan and Kishore is a daring effort from the director which is sure to bring in lot of accolades. Read More | |||||||||
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Review by Siddhartha on 28th January 2009 
20th Century Fox presents "Max Payne" is a movie based on the video game adaptation by the same name. Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a cop in the cold-case department (A department where the cases without any substantial leads are pushed here) waiting to take revenge on the killers of his family.
Max Payne doesn't know who the killers are but is sure that one of the assasins of his family is still at large. The reason behind his wife's murder is what that baffles Max Payne. Max Payne then begins the pursuit for his target. Read More | |||||||||
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Night Train (2009) Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 24th January 2009 
Film Tiger Productions "Night Train" is not a pleasant viewing unless if you like the horror of the abnormal proportions type movies. What else can be said of a movie where you can see a human being being chopped off into different pieces and put into a box.
The movie begins with a train chugging through the snow filled landscape for a journey to its destination. In a station where the train stops a stranger (Luca Bercovici) gets into the train with a small parcel in his hand. In the train he meets his co-passengers Chloe (Leelee Sobieski) a medical student and Pete (Steve Zahn) a marketing executive. Considering the freezing snow outside pete decides to have a drink and pops one to the stranger and he accepts it with thanks. Read More | |||||||||
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Review by Siddhartha on 21st January 2009 City of Ember is a movie for those who enjoy the fantasy or the sci-fiction type movies but for others this would be an unmeaningful film. The movie begins on a note where the human race is on the verge of extinction and all the wise men in the society decide to build an underground town which is designed to last for 200 years.The town has got all glittering lights which is powered by a generator. When the designated 200 years arrive the generator breaks down and all sort of problems crop up in this sci-fiction movie. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 20th January 2009 
The Sucessful Pair of "Prabhu Deva & Vijay" have come together once again to re-create the same magic in "Villu" (Bow) that "Pokkiri" had acheived. But in the end they have not been very successful in their attempt to replicate the same result. The director who had decided to re-make the hindi hit "Soldier" into tamil decided to add too much masala into it which has spoiled the entire dish. There are too much elements that have been compromised in the movie in a motive to please the die hard vijay fan. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 18th January 2009 "Passengers" is a movie which belongs to the thriller genre. But when we sit through the movie all we get is only disappointment. The theme of the story seems to be so familiar to us especially when the director decides to copy movies like "Sixth Sense" and "The Others". In the end of it all the efforts put in by the cast and crew turns out to be a damp squib.
The director "Rodrigo Garcia" after his 2005 superhit "Nine Lives" has let his talents drop down to such low levels by virtue of this movie. Read More  | |||||||||
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Chandni Chowk To China Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 16th January 2009 
One of Hollywood's major production house "Warner Bros" could have asked for a better bollywood debut than "Chandni Chowk to China". Akshay Kumar and the team of talented actors have brought forward a movie which is a Bollywood kungfu comedy type movie where the buzz word is supposed to have been fun from start to finish. This movie would have been pretty nostalgic for Akshay kumar personally due to the reason that he before stepping into bollywood grew up in Chandni Chowk and was a chef in Bangkok before lady luck smiled on him. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 14th January 2009 Sun Pictures presents "Padikkathavan" (2009) (Illiterate) is a full and full masala entertainer. You can have all the masala aspects bundled into this package. The batallion of villians, the glamour of Tamannah, Comedy of Vivek and the larger than life image of the hero.The only part that is missing is a credible story line. Right from the start we try to find out the story line but couldn't find anything credible in it. Read More
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 13th January 2009 "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" which has won the Golden Globe award for the best musical movie (I would not consider this movie on the comedy genre as this movie is much to do with the emotions of the charecters rather than any comic happenings).
Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) are two girls who are on a summer vacation to Barcelona from New York.Though Vicky and Cristina are good friends they do not get along in one thing and that is their perception on love. Read More  | |||||||||
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Review by Siddhartha on 7th January 2009
As a viewer if you had liked Die Hard type of movies you are sure to love this Eagle Eye. As the name suggests the plot of the movie is similar to that of an Eagle's Eye where in the movie the lead charecters are being monitored regularly."They obey the orders or they die".
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| Review by Siddhartha on 5th January 2009 
Walt Disney Pictures "Bolt" is a fun-filled animation film which would be loved by audiences of all ages and class. The interesting note about this Bolt movie is the way the entire plot has been conceived and portrayed on screen. Read More
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Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 1st January 2009
Danny Boyle directed Slumdog Millionaire is a movie which has got all elements that one would love to see in an entertainer. The movie based on the novel "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup is a simple but powerful tale about the journey of a young man from the slums of mumbai to a millionaire.
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| Review by Siddhartha on 28th December 2008 
If Vaaranam Aayiram was about a son’s love and affection towards his father. Abhiyum Naanum is about the love and affection of a father towards his daughter. The Director – Producer duo of the super hit “Mozhi” has joined hands once again for this venture. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 25th December 2008
Director A R Murugadoss has made a very good attempt to re-make his own super hit "Ghajini (Tamil)"in Hindi. The director has made sure that whatever flaws the tamil version had has been totally wiped off in his hindi debut. The director is indeed very lucky to have such a star studded team in this venture. This is indeed a dream debut for the soft spoken director which is sure to take him to great heights in bollywood.
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| Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Movie Review Review by Siddhartha on 15th December 2008 
Director Aditya Chopra who had just directed two movies prior to Rab ne in a career spanning thirteen years, we just cannot stop admiring this individual. When he had decided to write and direct his third venture the expectations were sky rocketing and infact RNBDJ carries the tag of one of the most awaited movies of the year. Read More
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Review by Siddhartha on 14th December 2008
Bharatiraaja’s much awaited “Bommalattam” which was in the making for three years has finally hit the screens and for the viewer who has got a little bit of interest left in the movie has got more disappointments than anything at the end of the movie. One wonders how did a director with the caliber he possesses in handling the sentimental rural subject becomes a cropper in choosing such a naive and a stupid subject. Though the director claims that this movie is based on a real-life happening, the viewer fails to understand the logic behind choosing this subject to be made with Nana Patekar in the lead.
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| Review by Siddhartha on 12th December 2008 
Nesagee Cinema’s latest offering “Poo” is an adaptation of the story “Veyyilodu Poi” written by S. Tamizhselvan. Director Sasi who had given hit films like Sollamale, Roja Kootam and Dishyum has tried his hand in a story that is very realisitic and rustic in nature. The credit has to be given to the director for choosing such a subject but when it comes down to the screenplay a lot is left to be desired especially when the final product falls in the genre of commercial cinema.
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| Review by Siddhartha on 16th November 2008
Gautham Vasudev Menon’s latest offering is a well knit story of love and affection between two individuals in father and son. Krishnan (Father Surya) has come up with a very mature performance in this movie. Krishnan who happens to be a carefree guy falls in love with Malini (Simran) in his college. Malini who is eager to know about krishnan falls for him in their first meeting itself. Later Surya (Son Surya) is born and though Krishnan and Malini are not financially strong, they make sure that their son gets the best out of everything.
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Review by Siddhartha on 13th November 2008
Dharma Productions latest offering Dostana begins at Miami with an sizzling introduction song with Shilpa Shetty (Special Appearance), John and Abhishek flexing their USP for the audience. At the end of the song we see both Abhishek and John go about their tasks and wake up in the morning after a night of fun with the girls.
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