Vikram M.N.'s Blog

For all my ardent readers, it’s been an emotional journey with WordPress for more than a decade. It’s a shame that i’ve to leave this space because I’ve exhausted my media limit. As i’m not monetizing by this blog, i think it’s only wise for me to close the curtains here… But wait… Picture abhi... Continue Reading →

A Ton of Tortured Souls There is a scene in the book. I suppose the word scene is more commonly associated with movies, but maybe because I write more movie reviews than book reviews, I tend to refer to it that way. I still haven’t found the right word for it. Anyway, the scene goes... Continue Reading →

Phew, what a sensual melancholy A random video popped up in my Instagram feed, where Javier Bardem walks out to Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson and offers to take them both to Oviedo. I knew nothing about the film but with that one scene I could deduce Javier Bardem to be an artist, Rebecca Hall... Continue Reading →

An anti male fantasy phenomenon Kalki is a true maestro. After the universally acclaimed trilogy of ‘Sivagamiyin Sapatham’, ‘Parthiban Kanavu’ and ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, which I was impressed but felt that it’s at max a pulp fiction, I read his non historical novel ‘Amara Thara’, which was very average. That naturally made me feel that apart... Continue Reading →

Depths of Ego This movie was in my list for quite some time but lacked motivation to watch it. National awards gave a much needed boost for me to watch it.  What I thought would be a decent movie of ego clash ended up going so deep. At times it reminded me of ‘Wild Tales’.... Continue Reading →

As simple as it gets There is nothing surprising about the movie. Just like any Iranian film it’s as simple as it can get. In fact the title tells you the story and there is nothing more than that. Because it was Kiarostami’s film, i thought it’d be a bit grim. But with children as... Continue Reading →

Left and the rest Just like the author confesses that he’s a Marxist, before getting into the book, I’d like to confess too that my political views are pretty basic, elementary and fairly neutral, that’s why I refrain from commenting on it but may be it can be said that I’m a left sympathizer at... Continue Reading →

Bruised and battered Probably the most horrific film I’ve seen in reason times, ‘Come and See’ is not a film which you can do a repeat watch, as a matter of fact, none of the Nazi films can be re watched. But what makes ‘Come and See’ a cut above the rest is the way... Continue Reading →

Disgrace to Cinema There are good films, there are bad films and there are even ugly films but ‘Good Bad Ugly’ beats the ugliest by long distance. Borrowing the title from the epic Italian epic spaghetti Western film ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, it could have borrowed some sense from the film too.... Continue Reading →

Bollywood in every bit ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar’ is Bollywood in every bit. I had initially watched the first half of this film during a flight journey and forgot it. After a year and a half I watched the second half now. I was able to continue with the flow of the movie just fine,... Continue Reading →