Tag: siddharth

Deeraj Vaidy's freshmen directorial effort Jil Jung Juk is a balls to the wall, whacked out gangster comedy that has very little equal in the world of Indian cinema. Taking influences from all over the globe to craft his twisty,...

Two years ago Tamil film star Siddharth made a big splash with his performance as a desperate novice filmmaker in Karthik Subbaraj's magnificent Jigarthanda. Now he's back in Jil Jung Juk, a brand new crime comedy from director Deeraj Vaidy....

Here we go again!My standard admonition about my own lists is that these are, in no way AT ALL, the best movies of the year. They are the ones that gave me the biggest thrills, made me think, made me...

I know, I know. It's cheating to have two years represented in my year end list. However, I didn't get a chance to make my lists last year, and these films deserve your notice.2012 was a banner year for Indian...

I've had the privilege of covering New York City's South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) since 2010, shortly after I came on board at ScreenAnarchy. Each of those five years has brought at least a couple of films that have made...

Karthik Subbaraj's Jigarthanda is long, juggles multiple storylines, tells complex stories in tiny chunks, is loaded for bear with insider references for Tamil film aficionados that will frequently leave newbs scratching their heads, and is nearly impossible to write about...

As we pass the halfway point of the year I like to take stock of the new Asian films I have seen. This is as much to jog my memory and help separate the wheat from the chaff as it...

It is every parents worst nightmare: You entrust your child to the care of another and when the allotted time for their return arrives they simply do not. They're just gone and you're left not knowing where or how or...

While I am not generally a fan of movie testing or marketing people getting involved in the creative process, Once Upon a Warrior may be the odd case where someone should've asked, "Who are we making this for?"In a prologue...

We've been eagerly watching as Disney made it's first foray into film production in South Asia, and now the fruits of those labors are available on US DVD.  Of the three films produced by Disney over the last couple of...

[I'm updating and reposting this with a new English subbed version of the trailer, which gives us hope that Disney will subtitle the theatrical prints, fingers crossed!]With Walt Disney's first south Indian feature hitting screens in less than a month,...

The House of Mouse has been poking its tail into various international markets for years now, but only very recently has India become a place of interest.  In 2008, Disney co-produced Yash Raj's computer animated Hindi film Roadside Romeo, which...