Vikram M.N.'s Blog, page 6

Movie Review – Kokila

A wise watch Legend is that, cartoonist Madan who is a good friend of Kamal, had a discussion of something like, movies are becoming exaggerated or Balu Mahendra/Kamal aren’t making movies for common man. In reply, Kamal seemed to have given one of the only two surviving prints of ‘Kokila’ and asked Madan to watch […]

Book Review – Vikram

A thrill ride like none Technically there is not a book called as Vikram by Sujatha. But there indeed was a novel with the same name when I picked it up from the nearby library. But not knowing about the origins and without much remembrance of the actual movie, except for Kamal being in it, […]

Book Review – Amma Vandhaal

A confusing epic I can’t stress enough on why it’s of paramount importance to read something in your language. You can’t strike a chord with any other language novels like how you do it for novels in your language. This book is again a classic example of that. I took to a new Tamil book, […]

Movie Review – 8 A.M. Metro

A not so simple movie guised as a casual film Raj Rachakonda’s first feature film, ‘Mallesham’ of which I’m a big fan, had delivered another deeply layered film in the form of ‘8 A.M. Metro’ After a long time I’m happy that I was able to watch two great films back to back. Just prior […]

Movie Review – 12th Fail

Restart Very rarely do we get to see movies oozing out with such sincerity. ‘12th Fail’ does it with every single scene. Interestingly, this movie came into my radar post the very famous Baradwaj Rangan interview, which we were casually discussing that, just like the film, the interview can be discussed for one and a […]

Movie Review – The Big Sleep

It’s all or nothing, when it comes to this film. Commonly cited as the most baffling film ever, the film continues to dazzle even after all these days. This was one of the films which I watched during my early days of film viewing. As expected, even after watching the commentary of the film, I […]

Movie Review – Manjummel Boys

An ode to Bromance Long time back, when I was in school, I wanted to gift my best friend (male), the lyrics of “Mellinamae Mellinamae” from ‘Shahjahan’. Those were the days where we didn’t have internet to find the lyrics, it’s all heard through radio. ‘Shahjahan’ especially had songs with great lyrics. “Mellinamae Mellinamae” and […]

Movie Review – Irugapatru

A Well-Meaning Misfire ‘Irugapatru’ tries to do too many things in too little time. This topic would have been ideal for web series because its one topic where you can go and on and still never come to a conclusion. It could very well have been Tamil ‘Little Things’. Dubbed as a film which every […]

Movie Review – Premalu

Too cute to digest ‘Premalu’ is a kind of movie which is difficult to hate. I should have exercised caution before watching it. But thanks for it being a Malayalam film, I was lured towards it. Plus I was film starved and had a rare alone time when it released online, so I couldn’t help […]

Travelogue – My EBC Success Story

Money… Money… Money… That’s definitely not the way I wanted to start the travelogue of a trek which I was planning for the last eight years after I failed to complete it in 2017. (Check out my EBC flop story here) But that’s the first thing which is coming to my mind when I think […]