#South indian Films

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Since seeing RRR about six months ago, I've binged about 70 South Indian movies and I'm completely addicted. Here are a few of my faves that you should check out if you loved RRR.

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someone: why you sobbing?

me: HE JUST WANTED TO WALK BESIDE HER

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Taapsee Pannu explains why southern films are doing well, stating, "People are movie enthusiasts. There's a ritual there.

With the exception of Stree 2, Hindi films have suffered at the box office for several months this year. While most Indian film industries have had challenges in 2024, there is a rising impression in Hindi-speaking regions that regional cinema is outperforming Bollywood in terms of film production success. When asked about this in a recent interview, Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba actor Taapsee Pannu stated that the ratio of hits to flops is generally stable throughout the film industry.

In an interview with ANI, Taapsee noted that fans in Hindi-speaking regions are largely exposed to successful southern films and are frequently oblivious of those that depart theaters within the first week. "There are films that fail, that do not work after 3-4 days, and are no longer in theaters. It's only that you don't get to know about it from here. If you stay in that state or follow every release from that industry, you will notice that they have an equal mix of hits and flops. "It's not that different," she explained.

Taapsee then stated that the movie-watching culture in the south differs substantially from Hindi, and that in the south, "movie viewing is almost like a holy practice. People love movies. "There's a ritual there." She elaborated: "It is relatively difficult to pull out a Hindi movie viewing audience from their houses to go and watch the film."

When discussing the south film industry, Taapsee was asked about the fundamental contrasts in work culture between the two industries. When asked if the southern film industry is more organised and disciplined, Taapsee said that is not always the case. She responded: "Having worked in both the industries, I can tell you it's not the case." She claimed that when she initially started working in the South, before making her Hindi cinema debut, she was never handed bound scripts. Instead, she received daily dialogue sheets, as opposed to Bollywood films.

She went on to say, "Until I was in the southern film industry, I never received bound scripts for any of my projects. I used to only receive sequences, and things were always changing on set. I believe things have improved there as well. But when I started in Hindi, my first film, Chashme Baddoor, had a bound script, despite the fact that it was directed by David Dhawan, who is famed for writing things on the spot.

She stated that even Anurag Kashyap, who usually modifies things on set, gave her a proper screenplay.

Taapsee's recent film credits include Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba and Khel Khel Mein.

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Janhvi Kapoor set to share screen with Jr. NTR, Ram Charan and Suriya

Indian actress Janhvi Kapoor is all set to make her Telugu debut with Jr. NTR’s ‘Devara,’ with Saif Ali Khan playing the antagonist. The pan-India film is scheduled to release in October 2024, according to media reports.Besides the Telugu debut, the actress has also signed a film with Ram Charan and a Hindi film with Suriya. Expressing excitement for Janhvi Kapoor’s film projects, father and…

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The RRR movie has been in constant discussion since its release and after winning the Oscar, it again made headlines. Meanwhile, a sad news is coming, Irish, who played the role of Villain in SS Rajamouli's blockbuster film 'RRR'. Actor Ray Stevenson has passed away at the age of 58. However, the reason behind the death of the actor is yet to be known.

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Sarath Babu, a 71-year-old South actor, has passed away.

Sarath Babu was admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad earlier this month and his condition was expected to be critical.

Sarath Babu, popularly known for working with some of the biggest superstars in the South industry including Nagarjuna, Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth, passed away on May 22 at the age of 71. The actor, known for working in Tamil and Telugu industry, was admitted to the hospital in Hyderabad for a treatment for his multi-organ damage earlier this month. While the actor was in a recouping stage, he passed away on Monday.

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Most Anticipated Sequels of South Indian Cinema! Check List! - Daily Trends Feed

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Review of Kantara movie

Review of Kantara movie #Kantara #RishabhShetty #southindianfilms

South film industry has never managed to fail us. At least since Baahubali has released in the year 2015, the south Indian film industry has reached new heights. Kantara is one such gem of a movie from the south industry. The film is originally a Telugu movie which is all set to release in the Hindi belt. The story is about a Henchman Shiva played by Rishabh Shetty who lives in a small tribal…

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Laapataa Ladies (2023) | dir. Kiran Rao

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It should be mandatory for all Bollywood hits to have an Epilogue or at least a reference in the director's next movie about what the characters from the previous movie are upto years after the events of the movie.

Like I wanna know how Aditya Kashyap and Geet are doing 15 years into their marriage and if they ended up buying a house in the hills. I wanna know how Prem and Jenny from Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahaani are doing and if Prem made her VP of the Happy Club. I wanna know if Aisha and Sid from Wake Up Sid! ended up marrying and if she published her own book with his photography on its cover. If Aditi and Jai from Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na have kids who they teach the steps of Pappu Can't Dance? If Bittu and Roshan from Delhi-6 got married and settled down in the same villa Roshan’s grandma brought him to? If Kavya and Humpty Sharma moved to the US eventually and opened their own wedding gown/lehenga shop. What country Naina and Bunny from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani are currently in. Did Om Kapoor end up marrying Sandy after Om Shanti Om? Or does he visit the burned site to meet Shanti everyday? So many questions.

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These lines... what do they mean? Nothing... just something about the sun and the stars.

दोपहर के बादल | AFTERNOON CLOUDS (2017) dir. Payal Kapadia

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Monkey Man and why I loved the heck out of it

At it's core, it's a Bollywood flick presented to the West with familiar nods to previous action films - I definitely picked up hints of Tony Jaa's influence on Asian action flicks throughout.

It's heavily focused on police corruption, something commented a lot about in India, and here, more importantly, Indian films. Just like America has its love affair with mobster flicks, Bollywood has a long history featuring films that showcase police corruption, sometimes tied into political extremism, fanatical or greedy religious leaders, and Monkey Man comments on all this as well and pays nods to that commonality. We've got televangelists and religious leaders in the states funnelling money, preaching prosperity gospel, and using it to influence politics and fund lavish lifestyles here.

Monkey Man shows this happening in India, and is filled with Indian culture and symbolism through out. The focus on Hanuman, the god and one worshiped by the strong, chaste, wrestlers, champions, and fighters. It's a common thing to have a household deity if you will. Some families might choose to focus worship on Ganesh, others Hanuman, some might do Mata Rani or Lakshmi. Here, it's the divine Vanara (monkey people race) - one of the Chiranjivi - immortals/forever-lived.

Hanuman. Themes of rebirth, common in South Asian history and mythology are present from Kid being a ringer, beat up fighter getting whooped for money to being reborn and facing his trauma through a ritual/meditate process that I don't want to get too much into to not spoil the movie. Post that, he begins his own self alchemy to really become the true Monkey Man. Nods to Ramayama, and an unapologetically Indian story featuring dialogues throughout in Hindi - don't worry, there are subtitles.

And of course a love for action flicks before it, all the way back to Bruce Lee. A beautiful use tbh of an autorickshaw (and you might know them as tuk-tuks in Thailand) which are popular in India with an added kick...I swear, that thing had to be modified with a hayabusa motor. Which is an actual thing people do - modding those dinky rickshaws with motorcycle engines, and considering they weigh nothing at all, they can REALLY FLY once you do that.

Monkey Man brings to the big screen other elements of India people might not know about, such as the gender non conforming and trans community that has a long history in India, presenting them as action stars as they go up against a system of corrupt elites oppressing part of the city, marginalized communities, and minority voices as depicted in the film. I'm not sure if people are going to get all of that without having the context, but I love that it does it without holding anyone's hands.

It's a fun action flick to see in the age of superhero films, and I say that as an obvious superhero/sff nerd. Also loved that Dev included a little bit about Hanuman's own story in the film, and the loss of his powers - almost mirrored by Kid's own loss of self/skills, strength until he confronts his trauma and is reborn, and in fact, remade (not necessarily the same). Also, the use of music was brilliant, including one scene with a tabla (the paired hand drums of south asia) - and Indian music is central to Indian stories.

This is a culture with evidence going back to the Paleolithic with cave murals showing art of Indian dance nearly 30,000 years ago. Yeah, that far back. As well as Mesolithic period art depicting musical instruments such as gongs, lyres, and more.

Indian music is some of the earliest we can find that has high developed beat and rhythm structures such as 5, 7, 9 and now the extremely common and known 4/4 and 3/4 - which so much of Western music is built upon. The foundations and experimentation of/in Jazz. John Coltrane and John Cage were heavily inspired by Indian music and incorporated a lot from it into their works. And Monkey Man blends Eastern and Western music through the narrative as comfortably as it does an Indian story in a very familiar Western accessible structure.

Dev did a wonderful job. And thanks to Jordan Peele for bringing it to screens.

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Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla for 'Yes Boss' (1997).

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मजा मा | MAJA MA (2022) dir. Anand Tiwari Pallavi Patel is the quintessential, middle aged, devoted housewife who is equally famous for her dance as she is for her cooking. Her husband, Manohar Patel, is the chairman of the local society, her daughter Tara is getting her PhD in sexuality and gender identity, and her son Tejas, who lives in America, is about to marry into a rich but very strict family. But when Tejas' future in-laws come to visit, the accidental revelation of Pallavi's 30-year-old secret puts both the marriage and the Patel's reputation in danger.

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𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐀𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐘𝐀𝐍 | ᴅᴀʏᴀ

ᴘᴀɪʀɪɴɢ : Daya x Fem!Oc

ғᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ : Temper

ʟᴇɴɢᴛʜ : 2.1k

ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀɪɴs : Daya being daya, chaos with a capital c, gunfire, possessive behavior, cursing, I feel a little bad for murthi ji.

sᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ : 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 he meets her and people are concerned, for themselves and the world.

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Naam daya hai jo usmein bikul nhi hai.

Accurate representation of him, he admits. People usually used it as a taunt which didn't really bother him because having mercy or empathy wasn't his point anyways.

But Daya was not a sadist, contrary to popular beliefs, he just didn't like to bother himself with things like fighting for righteousness. Especially in this day and age.

He was not enjoying tormenting people, he just had really really good survival skills okay. 

Another misconception was that he liked to play girls which he absolutely did not do, he just hadn't found the one he wanted to commit to. 

Well until that night. That night he found her.

It was ten in the night, he was on night duty and a little drunk when the police phone rang.

“Murthi!!! phone!!” 

He yelled knowing the male would answer the phone of his desk in a second. He hears bits and pieces of the conversation groaning at the last part of them heading over urgently.

Way to have a quiet night.

“Sir..”

He knew he would have to go but he doesn't bother lifting the file he has used to shield his face from the direct light over his head, his feet resting on the desk.

“What is it??”

“A girl called, her sister is being married against her will to some gangster. We should go sir."

He groans, keeping his position for more than ten minutes before sighing and lifting the file off his face, his hand going to grab the beer bottle, sipping it as he stands up.

It was a fifteen minute drive before they reached the house, decorated from top to bottom but definitely a little less for a wedding.

He steps out of the car, twirling the now empty beer bottle in hand, the jeep was parked beside the house, away from the entrance. The groom's procession isn't here yet so he hasn't gone out too why? Well he has a very simple plan.

Once the groom comes he will go demand a sum of money to get this marriage done, then he will go the girl's dad and propose to hide the plans of his daughter running away for some more money and at last he will call girl and ask her to come down and get her out of here for exchange of her jewellery.  

Wonderful plan no? He was patting himself on the back when he heard a loud thump from the roof of the jeep and turned just in time to catch a fully grown woman slipping off the roof of the vehicle.

Daya doesn't have much time to contemplate what and how, his feet move faster than his mind, rooting themselves in the ground, bracing for impact as he catches the woman.

He was about to say something very Daya but one look on her makes him speechless. The woman that fell in his arms was beautiful, long brown hair braided and decorated with jasmine garland, honey brown orbs staring back at him, dressed in a heavy sari and bare feet.

“Thanks!!”

He snaps when she pushes her way to stand up, picking up a bag she dropped.

“You're the bride?” 

He looks at Murthi when the man speaks before he could and just gives him a tight smile.

“Bri- Oh yeah that would be me.”

“Your sister called us to help, we will sort this out. We will make sure you don't have to marry that gangster.”

“...Yeah well my friends are waiting for me. Can you drop me there first?” 

The way she says that makes Daya suspicious but intrigues him at the same time. Before the old man could bring the morals he agrees to take her to her friends.

His suspicions start to come true when the woman asks them to stop in front of a club. She steps out, telling them she will make her friends inside and leave with them.

He watches as she easily slips into the club, like a regular there. Ten minutes turn into fifteen turns into half an hour and half an hour turns into a full hour.

“Did you know what the bride was named?” Daya asks, his suspicions now turning into full blown beliefs.

“Savitri.”

Daya turns to Murthi, eyes sparkling in amusement as he chuckles at the man's worried face and voice.

“What do you think is going on with her right now?”

“She is a girl in a club, anything could happen sir.”

“Should we go and check then? For her safety.”

“Really sir?”

“Yeah yeah come let's head in.”

It's really entertaining to watch Murthi give into him like this, they pass through the security easily, thanks to their IDs.

Inside while Murthi looks around towards the darker area his eyes search the dance floor and when he spots her his eyes widen, an amused chuckle leaving him as he taps the older constable on the shoulder.

“Hmm look, your Savitri is there.” Daya says, his finger pointing towards the bar and sure there she was.

Standing on top of the bar, dressed in a black mini bodycon dress, her hair flying like a wildfire, puff net sleeves covering her arms while her legs were bare, Her feet moving in a smooth rhythm even in a three inch heel as she danced to the music.

“Sirf naam Savitri hai, harktein Sheela wailin hain.”

The statement feels familiar as it rolls off his tongue but Daya brushes it off, choosing to turn towards Murthi. He snickers at the constable's expression before making his way over to the bar, slapping a boy out of the way who was reaching for her legs. For a minute he just observers her.

“Savi, here!!” 

A voice calls out from the crowd, the girl turns to catch a bottle of alcohol in time, definitely not her first of the night and chugs it down making Daya laugh out loud. He watches her dance for a little more before reaching out and folding an arm behind her knees knocking her off balance and he catches her, on his shoulder.

The female gives weak protests as he carries her out of the club, dumping her on the bonnet of the jeep, while the constable sits in the driver seat with a clearly upset look.

“Isn't it too soon to be celebrating a broken marriage?”

“What marriage? I wasn't getting married. I was under house arrest from my father. He's a businessman who had a party today.” Her words, even though slurred from the effect of alcohol, were clear to him and it just made his eyes widen.

“And used the police for it?”

He was amused, maybe a little irritated too but more amused.

“He cutt of my damn call services, there are only handful numbers I could dial. Ambulance wouldn't have gotten me out that left police, so I did.” 

“And what off the trouble you caused us?” 

“Well going by what I heard I don't really have money or many valuables on me but…” She slurred pulling off the golden bracelet and keeping it in his hands.

He was looking at the bracelet when a hand grabs his jaw and turns his face and before he could say anything two lips were pressing against his cheeks in a firm kiss.

She pulls away with a audible sound and a droopy smile and he is starts questioning everything he has ever seen in all the girls he has ever came across. 

She jumps down the hood and stumbles a few steps before he has to rush to catch her, passing out because of alcohol it seems. He laughs softly before tucking a hand under her knees and lifting her up bridal style and laying her down in the backseat.

From that night till today, that's a month later, him and her have practically moved in together. Savitri- sorry Savi went under another house arrest after that night and called him up again, his time going ahead and telling him to come get her.

He drove to her house but this time two bags fell down first before the woman jumped down on his jeep, the girl decided to leave her house but not without a good sum of cash and her favorite dresses.

Since she was adopted, she left behind a note for the actual daughter of that couple and her younger sister to just take her place and ask her parents to forget her.

For first weeks her whereabouts were a mystery before she walked into the police station, ten in the morning. Dressed in a red short cocktail dress, her hair were a mess she ran a hand through, while the other held her heels, her brows frowned in pain as she walks towards him.

“Why is there so much light?” She had groaned before sluming down in his chair, while he sat on his desk, her feet coming to rest on his thigh.

Turns out she got kicked out of the hotel she chose to stay in due to coming back late night, drunk and causing disturbance.

He had shook his head, sending someone to get her stuff from the club she was crashed in last night and just pressed his relatively cool hands to her eyes, she really was hungover.

Daya then has offered her to stay with him as roommates of course she has said yes. Living together was good, she stayed in for the day, they partied or simply drank together at night and sometimes gave him a idea or two get the extra money out of people.

They were like a match made in hell, for people that is. 

For them, Daya has felt the sparks between them since the moment she has kissed him that day and he knows is by the way she looked his way but she was ignoring it on purpose.

She was the one who kissed him first, she will be the one to propose to and he knew how to get her to say what he wants.

It was a simple plan, find a girl, talk to her and get Savi jealous. Yeah it went just a little bit downhill.

Over his corse of duty he has ended up befriending the blur cross owner, Saanvi. He decided to take her out, of course he told her it wasn't a date, just to hangout while he invited Savi to join him at the beach too.

When the female arrived all dressed in a blur dress and ready for Daya to ask her out, the only thing that had stopped her was the said man sitting with a girl. Too close for her comfort.

“Murthi ji!!!” She has yelled, practically summoning the constable from the driver side of the jeep, she stood by, to infront of her.

“Who is that bitch!?”

The male turned his head to look at Daya and Saanvi and answered her immediately.

“Oh!! She is Saanvi, the blue cross owner. She is really kind, sweet and a good girl-”

“Did I ask you to read the fucking thesis on her nature!? Did I!? Why the hell is she so close to Daya!?”

“The girl seems to like sir and maybe Daya sir would reciprocate her feelings too.”

When that didn't get a reply and just the way she opened the door of the jeep he thought she would storm out of the place, not her grabbing the back up gun and aiming for Saanvi's head, while the pet lover had her back to her.

Daya who has seen the jeep arrive from his peripheral, turned his head just to see Savi's face but he almost paled noticing the gun in her hand and a panicking Murthi beside her trying to calm her down. 

Woman lowers the gun and he sighs but the relief washes away as she strides towards them, gun still in hand which she does fire, right in his and Saanvi's feet.

She fired four shots before he yelled for Murthi to get Saanvi and held back Savi who yelled some very colorful sentences at the woman.

“Stay away from what's mine you bitch!!” 

“Savi-”

He was cutt off when the said female turned and pressed the gun to his chest, the barrel still a little hot from firing those bullets.

“The only feelings you will reciprocate are mine Daya, got it?”

He sighs before smirking and walking closer to her.

“So you do have feeling for me?”

“I do, I like you a whole lot SI Daya and I'm the not the normal kind. The next time I see you with that wretched bitch or any other girl I will shoot her first and then…” 

The gun clicking is all he needs to hear to know the other half of the sentence was, he nods before circling a hand around her nape and pulled her in for a feverish kiss.

Vizag was pretty fucked to be honest.

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