In one of the weirdest, yet most creative and oddly relatable stories, Tamil actors Harish Kalyan and M S Bhaskar engage in a clash of egos, as a menial issue of car parking turns into an all out personal war, paving the way for blood and vengeance, in the trailer of the film ‘Parking’.
Harish Kalyan portrays the role of a simple everyday office-man doing a 9 to 5 job. Renting out a floor in a house with his wife played by actress Indhuja Ravichandran, they are living a happy life together which suddenly crashes down due to one extremely minor issue.
An It worker hailing from the city of Tiruchirappalli moves to Chennai. As he succeeds in his job, Harish buys an expensive black car of which he is very proud. A colleague tells him that buying a car is not the real challenge, it is in fact maintaining it.
Initially paying little heed to it,...
Harish Kalyan portrays the role of a simple everyday office-man doing a 9 to 5 job. Renting out a floor in a house with his wife played by actress Indhuja Ravichandran, they are living a happy life together which suddenly crashes down due to one extremely minor issue.
An It worker hailing from the city of Tiruchirappalli moves to Chennai. As he succeeds in his job, Harish buys an expensive black car of which he is very proud. A colleague tells him that buying a car is not the real challenge, it is in fact maintaining it.
Initially paying little heed to it,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
In one of the weirdest, yet most creative and oddly relatable stories, Tamil actors Harish Kalyan and M S Bhaskar engage in a clash of egos, as a menial issue of car parking turns into an all out personal war, paving the way for blood and vengeance, in the trailer of the film ‘Parking’.
Harish Kalyan portrays the role of a simple everyday office-man doing a 9 to 5 job. Renting out a floor in a house with his wife played by actress Indhuja Ravichandran, they are living a happy life together which suddenly crashes down due to one extremely minor issue.
An It worker hailing from the city of Tiruchirappalli moves to Chennai. As he succeeds in his job, Harish buys an expensive black car of which he is very proud. A colleague tells him that buying a car is not the real challenge, it is in fact maintaining it.
Initially paying little heed to it,...
Harish Kalyan portrays the role of a simple everyday office-man doing a 9 to 5 job. Renting out a floor in a house with his wife played by actress Indhuja Ravichandran, they are living a happy life together which suddenly crashes down due to one extremely minor issue.
An It worker hailing from the city of Tiruchirappalli moves to Chennai. As he succeeds in his job, Harish buys an expensive black car of which he is very proud. A colleague tells him that buying a car is not the real challenge, it is in fact maintaining it.
Initially paying little heed to it,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Agency News Desk
KollywoodDetails about the cast and crew of this historical biopic are expected to be out soon.Digital NativeDigital NativeNayanthara, known as the Lady Superstar, has been bagging some of the best roles for quite a few years now. According to the latest buzz, the actor has been approached to play the lead role in the biopic of the legendary queen Velu Nachiyar. Born in 1730, Rani Velu Nachiyar ruled the Sivagangai jameen from 1780 to 1790. This valiant queen who fought the British is credited to be the first queen to fight against foreign rule. She also busted the ammunition storage of the British courageously. Rani Velu Nachiyar is known as Veeramangai, which literally translates to ‘brave lady’. With plans for a film on this brave queen, we are sure that it would be a meaty role for Nayanthara to essay. Grapevine has it that director Susi Ganesan (who has been accused of...
- 12/28/2020
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
KollywoodAtharva’s ‘Boomerang,’ Bharath’s 'Pottu’ and Kathir’s ‘Sathru’ are the latest films which have been released illegally online.Digital NativeEven as the film fraternity is making all efforts to fight piracy, no one is able to stop new and even unreleased films from being leaked online or available on DVD formats. Three such films which have become the latest victims of piracy are Atharva’s Boomerang, Kathir’s Sathru and Bharath’s Pottu. The General Secretary of the Nadigar Sangam and President of the Tamil Film Producers’ Council Vishal, who had promised to curb piracy in the film industry, has been working towards this goal ever since he took over as the President of the Tfpc. However after none of his measures have worked to eradicate piracy, he has stated that the government take actions against the same. Vishal recently met Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi Pazhanisamy...
- 3/16/2019
- by Nimeshika
- The News Minute
KollywoodThe film’s story is, in parts, quite unimaginative with underwritten female characters. Anjana ShekarAtharvaa’s Boomerang follows a very conventional plot line, is briefly suspenseful and mildly interesting. An action thriller also starring Megha Akash, Indhuja and Rj Balaji, the film’s story comes with a message and a nice punch at the very end that justifies its title. While the film’s story is, in parts, quite unimaginative, it clings to two medical facts – it is possible to transplant a human face and excessive adrenaline can prove fatal. The film begins with a young football player being rolled into a hospital with severe burn injuries to his face. The rest of his body is untouched, and we learn that two of his other friends involved in the mishap didn’t make it. A news reporter even wonders if the accident was the doing of “evil spirits”. This is...
- 3/8/2019
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
KollywoodThe lack of investment in the film’s characters becomes its major undoing.Anjana ShekarRadha Mohan’s 60 Vayadhu Maaniram was completed while he was working on Kaatrin Mozhi with Jyothika. This film, starring Prakash Raj, Vikram Prabhu and Samuthirakani, is the Tamil remake of the 2016 Kannada film Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu (Wheatish Complexion Moderate Build). The film’s story begins with Shiva (played by Vikram Prabhu), who is traveling to Chennai to meet his father Govindaraj (Prakash Raj), a sixty year-old-man with Alzheimer's. We’re briefly introduced to Shiva’s character, a career-focussed, practical young man with a tad bit of a temper problem (which hero doesn’t have that issue?). Shiva chooses to leave behind his father at an Alzheimer’s care facility so he can get on with life, not because he does not care for him but because it is the convenient thing to do. From the film’s title,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
KollywoodDirected by Radha Mohan, who has also penned the screenplay, the entire shoot of the film was wrapped up in 36 days in and around Chennai. Digital NativeThe shooting of 60 Vayadhu Maaniram was wrapped up a few weeks ago and its post-production also came to an end recently. The team is now gearing up for a release which would be soon. Meanwhile, 60 Vayadhu Maaniram went through the censor process and has been certified with the clean U. Confirming this, the film’s producer Kalaipuli S Dhanu had posted on Twitter: “Releasing very soon! #60VayaduMaaniram, A clean “U” censored movie with a runtime of 134 minutes.” Directed by Radha Mohan, who has also penned the screenplay, the entire shoot of the film was wrapped up in 36 days in and around Chennai. The interesting part is that nobody had a clue about such a project being made until it was announced by the makers earlier this month.
- 8/22/2018
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
CinemaThe film breaks out of the formula horror film and attempts something new although the characters don't stand out.Sowmya RajendranMercury, Karthik Subbaraj's silent film, deserves applause for daring to break out of the formula horror film and attempting something new. For one, we aren't presented with a haunted bungalow which has a vengeful resident ghost. And thankfully, there's nobody walking around with anklets at midnight. But then, if you've watched Pizza, you'd know better than to expect such routine tropes in a Karthik Subbaraj thriller. The story plays out in an abandoned factory which is linked to the lives of all the protagonists. It's a spooky hide-and-seek game where the hiders are deprived of hearing and speech while the seeker is deprived of sight. It's to the film's credit that you don't miss the dialogues at all - and there are no subtitles for the sign language spoken by the characters either. What we watch then is akin to a mime show that goes on for nearly two hours but you don't have to work hard to follow the film or understand the emotions of its characters. Perhaps all our screenplay writers should first write a draft assuming the film is a silent one and later add lines only when absolutely necessary. Imagine how much better the average film would be minus the mandatory punch dialogues and bombastic speechifying. Mercury builds up the creeps slowly - like the deer that watches the group, a silent eyewitness that unsettles them. Or an image of a newly hatched chick crawling on a grubby floor. The factory scenes have a noxious green tinge to them, with the camera playing its own hide-and-seek game with the corners and turns of the landscape. Till the interval block, the film has us on edge, wondering what will happen next, despite similarities to Hollywood thrillers like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Don't Breathe. After this, however, the tension slackens in spite of the fact that it's only now that the bizarre hunt has truly started. Perhaps because we don't care about any of the characters specially. All we know about them is that they are deaf-mute. Sanath Reddy and Indhuja have a little romance brewing between them but that doesn't tell us anything about what sort of people they are. It doesn't help that all of them employ nearly the same body language - jittery, panicky, jumpy - to suggest fear, nervousness and frustration. Though Prabhudeva's blue-tinged eyes are creepy, his actions, too, are similar to the people he's hunting. The sensory disadvantage that the each of the characters have end up being their only defining characteristic. It may work to the film's disadvantage that it has released a week after the Hollywood thriller A Quiet Place premiered in India. The comparison may seem unfair but at the end of A Quiet Place, we know so much about the characters in the film although they barely speak. None of them has a back story but they have discernible personalities - it is this that is missing in Mercury. The characters are too cardboard to really drag us into a place of terror. It doesn't matter if A dies first or B does. It is Santhosh Narayanan's background score which compensates for this somewhat. I was also left wondering why Indhuja, the film's lone woman protagonist, (Remya Nambeesan makes a cameo) had to be stuck in the wide-eyed innocent person role. Why and how did she get into the abandoned factory? There are many more questions that come to mind as the film draws to a close - but even if we excuse the logical loopholes, the "messaging" at the end is heavy-handed and in your face. Especially when the rest of the film manages to say so much without needing to spell it out (literally at that). Mercury is a brave attempt - it's typical of Karthik Subbaraj's brand of filmmaking. Technically sound, rich in visual cues, appealing more to the cerebrum than the heart. Disclaimer: This review was not paid for or commissioned by anyone associated with the film. Neither Tnm nor any of its reviewers have any sort of business relationship with the film's producers or any other members of its cast and crew.
- 4/13/2018
- by Monalisa
- The News Minute
InterviewKarthik Subbaraj says that he wants to make films which make people think.Hemanth Kumar C RFacebook/Karthik SubbarajIn less than six years, Karthik Subbaraj has come a long way in Tamil cinema. After making a name for himself with a series of short films, he went on to make highly acclaimed feature films like Pizza, Jigarthanda, and Iraivi, and now his latest film, Mercury has captivated everyone’s attention. After all, it’s been a long time since any contemporary filmmaker has made an attempt to make a ‘silent’ film and on top of that, Karthik has turned it into a thriller. The film narrates the story of a bunch of friends who go to a village, for a reunion of sorts, and how an event triggers a lot of things in their lives. Ask Karthik if he has been toying around with the idea of making a silent film for some time now and he says, “I’ve always wanted to make a film without dialogues. And writing a screenplay for such a film is a huge challenge. Apart from the idea that I was excited about, a big inspiration to make this film is the aspect of corporate exploitation and how incidents of chemical poisoning take a huge toll on generations altogether living in that area. We have seen that happen in Bhopal, and there are numerous other instances in countries all over the world where after an accident, there are several protests, but then everyone moves on, except for people living close to the area of the accident. They aren’t aware that such things could possibly happen to them, and they don’t deserve to go through all that pain. Mercury also touches upon an emotional aspect, but it’s a thriller first.” The director acknowledges that he didn’t have too many references to bank upon since he was making a thriller, unlike comedies and dramas of the silent era. “Charlie Chaplin’s films were a big source of inspiration, and I was always amazed with his ability to convey emotion with just his expressions. Pesum Padam is another popular film which I loved, but since I was making a thriller, I couldn’t bank upon these films. I must clarify that Mercury isn’t an experimental film. It’s a thriller right from the first scene and that’s what got me excited about it,” Karthik clarifies, adding, “I suppose each film of mine so far has had some sort of shock value. If it doesn’t come across as a shocker to me first while writing it, I don’t enjoy the process. So, when a silent film excites you, it’s a good thing. Isn’t it? (laughs)” Apart from Prabhudeva, the film also stars Sananth Reddy, Deepak Paramesh, Shashank Purushotham, Anish Padmanabhan, Indhuja and Gajara in lead roles. Karthik says it was a deliberate decision to cast lesser-known actors since he didn’t want their personalities to overshadow the characters they were playing. “It’s just the perception of people is quite different when you cast popular actors. I had to make it more believable, and all the actors have done a fabulous job. We got an acting trainer on board and each and every scene was choreographed and rehearsed extensively for nearly a month. Prabhudeva plays an antagonist in the film, and it’s unlike what he has done so far. When I met him, I told him that I didn’t have any references about how I wanted to play this role, but he understood what we were trying to do. He has done a phenomenal job.” Although Mercury is a silent film, it banks a lot on its sound design and music to convey the story, apart from the actor’s performances. In his own words, Karthik Subbaraj says, “Sound is a character in the story. For a silent film to work, the actors’ performances have to blend well with the visuals, music and sound design. Kunal Rajan, sound designer, has worked on the film, and when Santosh Narayan, music director, saw the first cut, both of them decided to work in sync with each other. Mercury isn’t like a regular film where music and sound effects were done separately. We had a lot of discussions about it, and the post-production itself took a long time to complete.” Interestingly, the director reveals that since he knew what he wanted to make, the biggest challenge for him was to figure out a way to convert the script to visuals. “Dialogues convey a lot of emotion, but we cut it out completely. This means that actors have to be spot on with their performances, the sets had to be designed in a particular way to convey a particular type of sound to make that scene more effective. When we shared this idea with the team, all of them became quite excited. Everyone had to be more responsible about their craft. I’m glad we pulled it off,” he adds. So far, each film that Karthik Subbaraj has made has triggered debates on social media and Jigarthanda, in particular, achieved a cult status among moviegoers. His most recent work Iraivi made news for its portrayal of women and relationships, and now Mercury too is expected to capture people’s attention to its themes of exploitation. Ask him about all this and pat comes the reply: “As a filmmaker, I feel that a film’s success lies in not just entertaining people, but also giving people a lot to think about. That’s when it is complete. There’s nothing wrong with making entertaining audience, but I want films to create a conversation or debate with each film of mine. I know that we aren’t going to change anything or create a revolution or change a person overnight, but it feels great when you hear how much a film has had an impact on people’s lives. For Iraivi, there were a lot emotional feedback. There were a lot of men who confessed that they’re going change their attitude towards women. That’s how I measure the success of a film and I’m hoping that Mercury too will fall in that zone.” This year, Karthik is going to direct a film with Superstar Rajinikanth and post that, he’s expected to do a film with Dhanush. It feels like a dream when you think about how far the director has come in such a short span of time, but he remains firmly grounded. “It’s too early to talk about these two films, but I’m glad that these two films are happening. I was supposed to make Dhanush’s film after Iraivi, but it got delayed due to various reasons,” he says. For now, all his attention is on Mercury and he believes that it’s going to make an impact. “Since it’s a silent film, we felt it can cut across regional and language barriers. Anybody can watch and relate to it,” Karthik signs off.
- 4/12/2018
- by Monalisa
- The News Minute
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