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Captain Miller (2024)
A beautiful shattered glass.
Captain Miller by Arun Matheswaran explores the thems of violence only breeding violence, oppressed vs the oppresers fairly well. The cinemapography by Siddhartha Nuni is captivating and it combined with my favorite trait in a Arun Matheswaran movie: the usage of different aspect ratios for different chapters and the black and white portions(I personally am biased towards black and white in photos and films). The score is also very complimentary to the film but at the end what I felt was a some emotional depth.
If I have to describe Captain Miller in a single sentence, it is like a shattered glass, you see the scattered pieces but it is beautiful none the less.
Tiger Nageswara Rao (2023)
Utterly Disappointing.
Tiger Nageswara Rao as a film is very badly edited, scored, directed and acted. Though there was humongous potential in the subject matter, the makers of the film decided to make it a pot boiler(that too a very badly made one). But the most autrocious part of the film has to be the writing itself. There is no clear motivation for any of the characters, they do random things for the plot to move forward, none of the emotional scenes regarding the discrimination of the people of Stuartpuram comes across as genuine but rather sticked on the story inorder to elevate the character of the protagonist. The characterisation of both of the female leads is paper thin as well.
18 Pages (2022)
Good Idea but bad execution.
The idea of the film is fascinating but it was burdened with flat narration, a confusing protagonist character and bad dubbing. All the songs were situational except for the first song in the movie which I felt was totally unnecessary and it melowed the emotion in the particular portion of the movie. The tone of the film was also confusing for me. Many ideas were introduced and were not completely fleshed out and many loose ends were not addressed. The performance of Anupama as Nandini was convincing but Nikhil's character as Siddhu was poorly written, but Nikhil hits the emotional notes in the hospital scene that comes in the second half of the movie really well.