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Amaran Movie Review

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                                                         Amaran Movie Review Director: Rajkumar Periyasamy Cast: Sivakarthikeyan, Sai Pallavi, Bhuvan Arora, Rahul Bose, Lallu, Shreekumar, Shyam Mohan, Ajaey Naga Raman, Mir Salman, Gaurav Venkatesh, Abhinav Raj.      The video chronicles the key moments in the life, career, and interpersonal connections of Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was killed at the early age of 31 during an army operation in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014. Compared to his first film, Rangoon, Rajkumar Periyasamy's second directing endeavor is more ambitious and has a larger canvas.       As the opening caption tells us, the movie is a mix of fact and fiction. The story is told in the first person by Mukund's widow, Indhu. The preceding section shows how Mukund and ...

The Garfield Movie Review

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                                                              The Garfield Movie Growing up, one of my favorite shows was "Garfield and Friends," which was based on Jim Davis' comic strips. Lorenzo Music's portrayal of the title tabby was the highlight of the show, with all due respect to the gifted writers and other voice actors. Music's voice, which inexplicably always sounded like a yawn, was ideal for a character who wished he was asleep all the time. Yes, Garfield would eat wildly, especially when it came to lasagna, but the sound effects team would primarily manage that with whooshing noises. Otherwise, Garfield was the embodiment (cat-ification?) of indolence, speaking in Music's voice. The movie begins with a flashback to Garfield's early years, when his doormat owner, Jon (Nicholas Hoult), found ...