Vikram M.N.'s Blog, page 9

Movie Review – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

An Indy to Remember ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ has everything you want in an Indiana Jones movies. It’s commendable that James Mangold could match Spielberg’s vision and make a near perfect film using his template without having any self-righteousness finding its way. Generally, in a series when the director changes, the tone […]

Movie Review – Le Samouraï

If only films could breathe style Probably one of the stylish film to have ever come across in cinema. ‘Le Samouraï’ is part of the league of extraordinary pure cinema at the start of French New Wave, like ‘Breathless’ and ‘Pickpocket’. Of the three, probably the less famous and most engaging film would be ‘Le […]

Movie Review – The Great Indian Kitchen

Great Indian Tragedy Great Indian Kitchen is a treat to watch, pleasure to discuss and a joy to write. It’s one of the few movies, which you know will work right from seeing a frame. In fact even that’s not necessary, just the title hits you so hard with its sarcasm. This is an universal […]

Movie Review – Life is Beautiful

Is Life Beautiful? I have been consciously avoiding this movie for a decade. The last I saw was a glimpse of its dubbed version in Vijay TV in a season where the dubbed English movies like Shanghai Nights, Volcano etc. was doing rounds. I precisely remember the scene where I saw a dad trying to […]

Travelogue: Most Satisfying Incomplete Trek – Bali Pass

Looks like Bali Pass is not meant to happen easily. I booked last June and I couldn’t go. Mind you, I don’t cancel on trips that easily and this year, the weather gods didn’t permit me. A month back I had been to Pangarchulla with a friend of mine and none of my regular culprits […]

Movie Review – Ponniyin Selvan: II

An alluring ode to the epic Even though together it has to be viewed as a single film, the part two of Ponniyin Selvan felt lot more grounded than Ponniyin Selvan: I as things felt in place. Except for the one badly staged climax fight, the film was perfect in its treatment. There wasn’t a […]

Movie Review – Satya

A coveted started to the world of raw gangster films Somehow I completed watching the Gangster trilogy of Ram Gopal Varma with enough time between films, so that I could appreciate each by its own without the influence of other films. Guess, even though all the films treaded on the same universe, one would be […]

Travelogue: A Peak to remember – Pangarchulla

It was the first of the years plan and I’m glad that everything went as per plan. Pangarchulla, for starters is a weird trek. Graded difficult, it’s a short trek of four days, of which three days are nothing but that one day, well, you got to have guts to do that. It’s great that […]

Movie Review – Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam

Oh, the unrelenting pleasure of an afternoon nap ‘Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam’ had my curiosity right from the word go. Be it the title or a sleepy faced Mammooty coming out of a hut, it had everything I’d ever want on lonely watch of a movie. Even though I imagined that this film would be one […]

Movie Review – Everything Everywhere All at Once

For Everyone Easily one of the greatest theater watches for an Oscar film. One of the good thing about the movie was, it was entertaining and didn’t feel like, it was made for Oscar.  Of course with great films gaining on popularity, this film would have its fair share of non-likers but it’s a relief […]