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Cast: Vijay Sethupathy, Yogi Babu, Madonna Sebastian, Sayesha Music: Sidharth Vipin Direction: Gokul After ‘Itharku thane aasaipatai Balakumara’, Gokul is directing Vijay Sethupathy. In the later film, Vijay Sethupathy was a local goon and in Junga he is a don. In both the films, the character is note-worthy, but the film lacks the screenplay. The idea of stingy don is unique and interesting. Vijay Sethupathy nails his performance as a stingy don, Junga. The problem with Junga is that the idea is interesting, but Gokul fails to explore it both writing wise and direction. The film opens with a senior police officer ordering his junior to encounter Junga. Next, we see the junior police officer and a constable afraid to wake up Junga is prison. We get that Junga is don, for whom even the police fears. But, throughout the film he is not portrayed as a dreaded don rather a don with comic sense. The stingy don concept and along with Yogi Babu has bought a lot of hila

Cast: Tovino Thomas, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Illavarasu Year: 2017 Music: Rex Vijayan Direction: Aashiq Abu It took me hours to come out this film. Mayaanadhi is a type of film that traps you into its world and leaves you enthralled. In the opening sequence we hear Maathan (Tovino Thomas) taking about his future and we see sky as the visual. The future is vast and so far away like the sky. Mayaanadhi is a romantic thriller. The romance of Maathan and Aparna (Aishwarya Lekshmi) is just amazing and used wonderfully to the crime part of the film. Tovino as Maathan not only looks good but also his acting is brilliant. His small facial expressions like getting frustrated for a phone call or while motivating Aparna over call adds value to the character. Aishwarya Lekshmi as Aparna Ravi is also brilliant on screen. I loved the scene where she slaps Maathan, walks away fast, and then gradually slows down till she stops. One of the biggest things that Malayalam cinema doe

Cast: Shiva, Ishwarya Menon, Sathish Music: N Kannan Direction: C S Amudhan Tamil padam, a film which was released in 2010 was a path breaking film. It was a spoof of most iconic Tamil films released until then. C S Amudhan, the director, had started the second film named ‘Rendavadhu Padam’ which was dropped for various reasons. Now he has come up with the sequel of his first film. Tamil Padam 2 gives a lot more enjoyable spoofs than its prequel. The variety in the spoofs in unimaginable situations makes the movie entertaining. From the Agila Ulaga Super Star title card to end credits, there is non-stop spoofs. I was surprised to see a continuous spoof on Devar Magan. The death of Shiva’s wife is related to death of Sivaji Ganesan, there is a scene where the bridegroom runs away and Shiva steps up to marry her and finally the climax. This stood unique to me among the scattered spoofs. Another interesting spoof was of Iruthi Suttru, which was well sink with the lyric