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Coolie - Movie Review

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The much awaited and most hyped Superstar starrer “Coolie” released worldwide on 14 th  August to the cheers, claps and applause of his ardent fans.    Directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, a self-claimed disciple of Actor Kamal Hassan, the film has been produced by Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Pictures. It is interesting to see Thalaivar move seamlessly from Lyca to Sun to Lyca and again to Sun. Only he can manage this politics of business and business of politics so damn well.  Coolie is all about Deva (Rajinikanth) and his childhood friend Rajasekar (Sathyaraj) who is found dead by the train tracks.  His three daughters imcluding Preethi (Shruti Hassan) are threated by  Soubin (Dayal) and his men to complete certain tasks left behind by their father. How Deva finds and fights his friend’s murderer is the rest of the plot . Upendra (Kaleesha) enters the fray one last time for old times’ sake even as Thalaivar fights his off-screen bestie Nagarjuna who dons the role of ...

Thug Life (Reimagined)

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Inspector Jaikumar (Ashok Selvan) is investigating the death of a high-profile corporate czar S. Gurumurthy (Samudrakani), who is the CXO of one of India’s largest, listed and reputed Real Estate companies  and a key sponsor of IPL T20 Cricket,  based out of Ghaziabad, NCR. The upright executive, with no visible scars on his reputed corporate  career all along, is killed by torture, much to the surprise of the community at large.  Little do people know that Gurumurthy had a shadow life too, acting as the hit-man of the company’s owners, by making gullible small-land owners to surrender their cultivable land for real estate development across Northern India. Indrani (Trisha) runs the CSR arm of the company, which among other social initiatives also runs a school and a college, where the children of poor farmers are enrolled. Jaikumar & Indrani have a parallel love track going on, with their wedding solemnised. (Indrani had a past affair, btw!) Jaikumar takes spec...

Rana Naidu – Web Series Review

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To what extent would a gentleman go to save his family? Remember, a man always dons various roles all the time, that of a son, a brother, a husband and most of all, a father. And family comes first, no matter what. And the sacrifices of a man come at a cost. Presenting Rana Naidu (Rana Daggubati), for One Last Job. In the second season of the critically acclaimed web series, made for India by OTT giant, Netflix, Rana Daggubati as the protagonist carries the weight of the titular role in every episode of the 9-part series.  And this time, not only does he have new adversaries, but some very wicked ones, who harm almost every member of his family. The series opens with Rana and his wife Naina (Surveen Chawla) returning after a trip to Europe with Rana confiding that he will stop his gangster work henceforth. As they land at Mumbai airport, Rana sees a video where his son Anirudh (Madhav Dhingra) has been kidnapped. As he rushes to Goa in the private plane owned by Viraj Oberoi (Ra...