Movie Review: Manithan – Guilty as charged
Honestly, I did not believe someone would have thought of remaking Jolly LLB. It was a beautiful film (no doubt about it), but it’s a movie that sits hidden in plain sight and also with some obvious...
View ArticleMovie Review: Vetrivel – Love, betrayal and other things
During the late 80s and 90s, Tamil cinema saw surge in village based subjects and the stories will be built on family feuds or inter-village feuds. Somehow, during the late 90s, we saw a dearth in...
View ArticleMovie Review: 24 – Death of Sci-Fi
Disclaimer: I am a Sci-Fi lover and this review will have that tone and colour but at the same time I am not a scientist to understand every aspect related to time travel. And the review is with...
View ArticleMovie Review: Uriyadi – One Good Shot
The tax rebate for U certificate movies has created a huge problem for Tamil movie directors. They are not prepared to show raw emotions on screen. Be it love, sex or violence, what we see is a...
View ArticleMovie Review : Iraivi – Empty Vessel
I am amazed at the extremely polarised discussion on Iraivi – an average movie that should have been just passed along like many other Tamil movies that come every week. Iraivi is a story of how men’s...
View ArticleMovie Review : Kabali – Neither here nor there
Writing about a Rajini movie is a futile exercise. After all, if I give a good review, the post might might get shared and if I give a bad review, I am going to be termed as a fake reviewer. …
View ArticleQuantified Self: The unrelenting co-construction of gamified self
Disclaimer: Major parts of the article has been sourced from my academic dissertation submitted to University of Southampton for my MSc., Digital Marketing course. I am trying to introduce a new...
View ArticleMovie Review: Iru mugan – Hero worship of a different kind
One question plagued my mind before and after I watched the movie. I was thinking why the director chose to name the movie as “Iru mugan”. Neither Love or Akilan Vinod (both played by Vikram) are two...
View ArticleMovie Review : Kutrame Thandanai – Slow Elixir
When you read reviews of any Tamil thriller movie, you will come across this adjective “fast-paced”. Thrillers are supposed to be fast-paced with multiple twists and turns but on the other side there...
View ArticleMovie Review : Andavan Kattalai – Muzhusa Varala
This review is dedicated to that family guy who was staring at me for laughing at some jokes. I still don’t know why he gave those stares. After Kutrame Thandanai, Manikandan has moved in to his...
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New Logo, change in Email delivery and some announcements
Sylvianism has been a space where I shared my love, hate, views and skews for the past 9 years. And without the support of you readers, it would have been impossible to run this blog for so long. I...
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That’s what they meant : Introducing Lyric Investigators
The Lyric Investigators are my friends who love Indian music. I helped them start their own blog few years back but the blog didn’t take off due to lack of patronage. So, I asked them whether they can...
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Movie Review : Remo – Vachu Senjitange
இந்த Sylvianism விமர்சனம் எப்ப வரும் எப்படி வரும்னு தெரியாது ஆனா வர வேண்டிய நேரத்துல correctஆ வருm (You don’t know when and how Sylvianism’s review will arrive but it will arrive at the right time)...
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50 Tamil movies to watch before you die – 33 – Nayagan
Past few choices in this list have been popular ones and this one will be the pinnacle of popular choices. Not so surprisingly, there was a discussion on the main page of this list on whether I should...
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Movie Review – Kodi : Half-mast
*Spoilers ahead* Although Tamilnadu is an active political state, Tamil movies haven’t explored the genre of political thrillers. Almost every masala movie might have a cliched politician, but...
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Movie Review : Kashmora – Kashtam Da
A fierce warrior who has never seen any defeat in his lifetime falls in love with a princess. Kills her father and brother, takes over the country but dies at the hands of the princess. He waits 100s...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season 2 – 1/365 – Meetatha Oru Veenai
And yes, the crowd favourite is back. I am restarting Projekt Ilaiyaraaja – the season 2 will feature more rare gems from the maestro. For the uninitiated, I did a 365 project on Ilaiyaraaja – one...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season 2 – 2/365 – Kaatrodu Kuzhalin
The second raaga is Simhendra Madhyamam – Although Ilaiyaraaja had some scintillating songs in this raaga, I chose this song because it does something to me every time I listen to it. Raaga : Simhendra...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season 2 – 3/365 – Maadthile Kanni Maadathile
The third raaga of this week – Brindavana Saranga. Maestro has some interesting compositions in this Raaga and this one is the pinnacle. Raaga : Brindavana Saranga Song : Maadathile Kanni Maadathile...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja II – 4/365 – Maapillaikku
Raaga of the day – Karaharapriya. The song shows how a classical raaga is perfectly adapted as a film song. And one of the masterpieces of Rajinikanth Raaga : Karaharapriya Song : Mappillaikku Maaman...
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