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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...
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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...
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Netflix to release Thug Life as a 9-part Web Series

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Ace Director Mani Ratnam and septuagenarian actor, the multifaceted Kamal Hassan have joined hands after 31 years in their latest outing Thug Life . Co-produced by both personalities themselves, the film was released at over 1,000 screens in India and worldwide, amidst a huge publicity undertaken by the crew over the last fortnight. Kamal Hassan, Mani Ratnam and the lead actresses Trisha and Abirami, along with Simbu alias Atman TR Silambarasan travelled extensively across the southern states, Mumbai and even to Dubai to promote the film, while they also gave a lot of interviews to mainstream and social media. Songs by AR Rahman, who comes together with Kamal Hassan after 25 years (since Indian which released in 1999) have been hitting the charts for a while. The music release event a fortnight ago in Chennai was well received with live orchestra by the singers and artists.   The film, which was hyped a lot over social media platforms by various Influencers and media houses for t...
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