Project Adhwaytham

It's a classic crime story with the familiar trademarks of how to steal jewels intelligently, using techniques to avoid setting off the alarm, such as silence by the characters until such time the alarm is absolutely off and then drilling through the vault to acquire the jewels. Dassin,the director, also plays the safecracker, and was forced to move and work in France due to the Hollywood Communist blacklist in the ‘50, The robbery. Scene, without any dialog, lasts over 10 minutes! Can you imagine any director being able to pull that off today. If you don’t watch it you will denying yourself the pleasure of enjoying IMO perhaps the best caper film ever made.

Highway is a visual and aural treat, a refreshing break from the monotonous story lines of the mainstream Bollywood cinema, a medley of emotions, an intricately woven cinematic tale of love, freedom and adventure. It is a wonderful representation of the unconventional Indian cinema from the likes of Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Bannerjee and Raju Hirani. And because it scores wonderfully on all above parameters, it is a great movie. Loosely based on the Stockholm Syndrome, Highway has stellar performances from Alia Bhatt (actor), Randeep Hooda (actor) and the rest of the supporting cast as well. Alia's character had a lot of interesting quirks and a few grimy tales from the past which made for some excellent seasoning. She completely owns the house during the final 20 minutes of the movie. Rarely before have I witnessed a completely silenced audience, with their eyes glued to the big screen, unflinching, almost mesmerized by every frame. Rahman's music, as always, is tailor-made for every situation in the movie. From the sufi beginnings of "Patakha Guddi" to its rock outro to the soothing reverberations of Tu Kuja, every song is stupendous.The ending is what one can call "bittersweet" - it will leave you laughing, it will leave you crying, it will leave you mesmerized.Must watch movie!

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk about a Buddhist monastery that floats on a lake in a pristine forest. The story is about the life of a Buddhist monk as he passes through the seasons of his life, from childhood to old age.

“Grave of the Fireflies” (1988) is an animated film telling the story of two children from the port city of Kobe, made homeless by the bombs. Seita is a young teenager, and his sister Setsuko is about 5.

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Wry and tender, Jiri Menzel’s Academy Award-winning Closely Watched Trains is a masterpiece of human observation

12 Years a slave is written by John Ridley and directed by Steve McQueen. It tells the true story of Solomon Northup, an African-American freeman who, in 1841, was snatched off the streets of Washington, and sold. It’s at once a familiar, utterly strange and deeply American story in which the period trappings long beloved by Hollywood — the paternalistic gentry with their pretty plantations, their genteel manners and all the fiddle-dee-dee rest — are the backdrop for an outrage.

Malayalam Movie Review of Classic cinema Chidambaram(1985). It is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C V Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman attraction leading to betrayal and eventually to the purgatory of guilt.

Malayalam review of all time favourite Spanish movie 'The Motorcycle Diaries' (2004). It is a biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary Che Guevara.