joshua ( also known as the devil 's child ) is a 2007 american psychological thriller horror film about an affluent young manhattan family and how they are torn apart by the increasingly sadistic behavior of their disturbed son , joshua .

the film was directed and co-written by george ratliff , and stars sam rockwell , vera farmiga and jacob kogan .

it was released on july 6 , 2007 in the united states by fox searchlight pictures .

joshua ( 2007 film )

teaser poster for the theatrical release of 28 weeks later . © 2007 twentieth century fox film corporation
film quarterly offers serious film lovers in - depth articles , reviews , and interviews that examine all aspects of film history , film theory , and the impact of film , video , and television on culture and society .
song download : urltoken a lyrics video for the fly written by dave matthews and preformed by jacob kogan ( who played joshua in the film ) from the soundtrack joshua ( 2007 ) . joshua is an american psychological horror / thriller film and was written by george ratliff and david gilbert , directed by george ratliff , and produced by johnathan dorfman .
( 2007 ) is one of these fear - of - children films , good of kind . it was briefly packaged as
joshua ( 2007 ) directed by george ratliff cast : sam rockwell , vera farmiga , jacob kogan , celia weston , dallas roberts , michael mckean , nancy giles , linda larkin , alex draper , stephanie roth haberle , ezra barnes , jodie markell , rufus collins , haviland morris 2007  105 minutes rated : ( for language and thematic elements involving a child ) . reviewed by dustin putman , july 14 , 2007 .
african american cinema archives b . ruby rich blu - ray / dvd reviews book reviews chinese cinema digital media documentary feminism film festivals film reviews french cinema hollywood interviews joshua clover paul julian smith race and film rob white social justice television
mr . rockwell with jacob kogan , rear , and vera farmiga in a scene from the film joshua .
one theater . three days . $ 279 in 2007 . that’s pretty much the full theatrical story of mary mcguckian’s tale of addiction , which won the director a best feature film award at the 2007 san diego film festival—and a best actress honor for jennifer tilly , who is just one member of an enormous cast that includes andie macdowell , colm feore , rupert graves , and former baywatch babe donna d’errico .
how is joshua not titled portrait of the serial killer as a young boy ? that ' s just as perfect a description of this film as i can manage . the film carefully and precisely constructs our notion of who the titular character is through a series of increasingly alarming behavior which is at its creepiest when the film is quiet , the mark of any great atmospheric horror film .
new york - - although dave matthews ' face is never seen in the new movie
joshua ,
he plays a crucial role in the spooky film , writing the song the demented child character croons as the film draws to a close .
- - advisory : this film contains mild violence , disturbing scenes and strong language .
major funding for film quarterly is provided by the justfilms initiative of the ford foundation .
vera farmiga ( image on screen ) and jacob kogan in
joshua .
joshua bell - the four seasons
summer
iii . presto ( video )
box office chart held few surprises . every film in the top five was close to our
, barely earned a quarter of that . i don’t think any film will come close to
i loved this when i first saw it back in 2007 . revisiting the film confirmed that it ' s some kind of masterpiece .
joshua
is one of the most grounded and realistic
evil kid movies
i ' ve ever seen . like the best efforts in this genre , it not only taps into extreme fears , but it sheds light on the everyday anxieties of parenthood .
could have learned a thing or two from what
joshua
offers up .
joshua clover is the author of the matrix ( bfi modern classics , 2004 ) .
joshua ( jacob kogan ) feat . dave matthews - the fly ( full version )
won the race to the top of the box office chart and did so with ease . however , that film , and practically every film in the top five , failed to live up to expectations .
poised self - consciously between art and entertainment , joshua offers imaginative staging and some superb performances .
joshua ' s fondness is somehow evidence of an even deeper evil , & that first glint of understanding in his uncle ' s expression at the end is the film ' s best , quietest chill .
, as the film earned $ 41 . 46 million during its first day in china , and $ 47 . 55 million if you include previews . the international numbers will save this film and justify more sequels .
the film is the ultimate birth control . if you plan on one day having kids , don ' t see this film . if you already have children , you will never look at them the same way again .
looking for movie tickets ? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing joshua near you .
an open - ended plot - boiler of a film , joshua is a startlingly disturbing tale of domestic implosion . the introduction of a new baby starts unraveling the family at the center of the film , exacerbating the mother with its incessant cries and putting the father in the midst of an increasingly hard to control home environment , with…
. for example , the film earned first place in russia with $ 11 . 42 million over the weekend , while
at first , joshua invites you almost to imagine the boy ' s sense of rejection and growing frustration .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
joshua is one of those horror films where after you are done viewing it , you just sit there and think about what you have experienced , about what you have just gone through . it ' s a film that made me think , wondor , and just kept me at an uneasy , unsettling feeling after the film had ended . director , george ratliff has crafted a very dark and very disturbing film about a disturbed , yet highly intelligent young 9 - year old boy named joshua , as his erratic behavior slowly starts to tare apart the family . i don ' t want to say too much , but this is a very creepy and sophistacated horror film that will truly keep you on your feet ! sam rockwell and vera farmiga portray…
ratliff never acknowledges that his audience has likely seen this setup dozens of times before , making the film feel laborious and unsurprising .
their vile abusive parents , would be vastly more credible , though it ' s just not been done that way in film .
this movie moved waaay too slow for its own good . i know the director was going for that show - burn dread that i like so much in artful contemporary horror , but they payoff in this film was infinitsimal . there are so many interesting avenues this film could have explored , but it introduced then abandoned every one of them . joshua and his grandmother ' s rabid religiosity , abby ' s sever recurrent post - partum depression , the inherent tensions between brad ' s homelife and career and joshua ' s own emotional turmoil are all completely wasted here . i think that the shifting focus between the characters in this film was a mistake . first it ' s abby , and she ' s quickly disposed of , then it would appear to be joshua for a little while , and the plot finally settles on the unravelling brad . just when it looks like they ' re going to grant joshua some depth , they flatten him out again . which is the biggest shame in the film , because he could have proven to be a new breed of bad seed . oh well .
there ' s a subtle little fillip at the end which showed joshua capable of something approximating love , for his faggy attentive uncle , which puts joshua ' s effete good grooming , love of museums , & hatred of sports , in a slightly homophobic context .
like we were thinking ,
then went back to see if the film could be edited to include a reference or two to the title .
but ratliff has made a genre film , and if you make a genre film , you either fulfill the genre , transform it , transcend it or apotheosize it . you can ' t do it halfway , and you can ' t offer up something that ' s not quite as satisfying .
the video tape joshua pulls from the drawer to watch is dated 2 / 29 / 1997 . 1997 was not a leap year .
history , in its lumbering way , can still outpace hollywood . the original trailer for the kingdom ( peter berg , 2007 ) played late last year , promising the purest propaganda film of the era . an american base in saudi arabia has been suicide - bombed by a terrorist mastermind . voice of liberal reason : “you have to let the tools of diplomacy work . ” cue jennifer garner , no - nonsense forensics expert : “if we can’t get there now , we will not find the man responsible for this crime . ”
joshua is the main attraction , but it is his parents whose eyes we as the audience see through . vera farmiga ( 2006 ' s
the cairn family welcome a newborn baby into their family , and slowly sanity begins to unravel for everyone . at the heart of the insanity is joshua , a 9 - year old prodigy with an obsession for egyptian death rites . we all know where this story is headed , of course , having been privy to a number of bad seed knockoffs . thankfully , writer / director george ratliff knows this , too . what sets joshua apart is its attention to character and personal drama . to be honest , this film could easily be classified as a drama rather than a horror film , and that’s its greatest strength .
the video tape joshua pulls from the drawer to watch is dated 2 / 29 / 1997 . 1997 was not a leap year . see more »
the leader of the dave matthews band is part of the company , ato pictures , that produced
joshua ,
starring sam rockwell . matthews says he was involved in finding the film project , but was not very involved in the production ( one exception _ urging that rockwell be one of the actors ) .
so stop reading right here & return to this article after seeing the film , then see if you agree with me about the basis for its capacity to disturb .
i had a different take on the film . firstly , i belive that joshua was abused . the drawings , trail of dead pets etc point to this - and there is no doubt there is something wrong with the child . also let ' s not forget the bruising on joshua ' s back to which the dad exclaimed
who did this to you ?
. the end scene in which josh and ned are playing the piano together indicate to me the possibility of ned abusing joshua . . . i believe that someone was , but ned seems the only one to have had the proximity of doing so .
poised self - consciously between art and entertainment , “joshua” offers imaginative staging and some superb performances . celia weston is all clenched teeth and frozen hair as joshua’s aggressively christian grandmother , while dallas roberts brings so much charisma to the minor role of an empathetic uncle , you wish he were around more often .
joshua ,
which opens in limited release friday and expands to wider release later this month , is about a musical child whose family life dramatically alters once his baby sister is born . quickly , the family starts to fall apart , and joshua seems to be at the center of its downfall .
despite several such creepy moments , the film ' s fundamental narrative is more wearying than horrifying . certainly , the monster child plot is familiar , but the easy fit of the
bad mothers
into joshua ' s apparent worldview - - they ' re weak , needy , angry - - is downright disappointing . while brad is by no means a conventional guy hero , he ' s no match for the scheming , ingenious boy . joshua ' s story overwhelms all .
more precise than the monster film genre , the zombie flick ( a perennial cultstud fave ) is cinematic silly putty : cheap , gross fun , with a knack for picking up the day’s newsprint and stretching it across the warp of what looks a lot like dead flesh . for a brief passage of time , it seems like 28 weeks later ( juan carlos fresnadillo , 2007 ) will be the best war movie ever . this despite the fact that it’s barely distinct from predecessor 28 days later ( danny boyle , 2002 ) , origin of the fast zombie trend .
it ' s a small thing , really , but it sets up the tension that will drive george ratliff ' s urban horror movie . the trouble begins for nine - year - old joshua ( jacob kogan ) when his father brad ( sam rockwell ) pulls him away from the soccer game to attend the birth of his sister lily . the first glimpse joshua has of the intruder is from a hospital room door : he looks in on mom abby ( vera farmiga ) and dad cooing over their precious bundle . grim and pale , joshua here adopts the demon - child demeanor he will maintain for the rest of george ratliff ' s film .
i hate to be the rube to say it , but
the bad seed ,
the 1956 camp classic , did this sort of thing better . yes ,
joshua
has it all over
the bad seed
in terms of composition , and it does incite dread in a way that the earlier film never did . but
the bad seed
had one thing that
joshua
lacks and desperately needs : it had a pint - size sociopath who was fun to hate .
vera farmiga who plays joshua ' s mother . would also play a mother to another evil child . ' esther ' in the 2009 horror thriller ' orphan ' .
but something curious happened . after an advance screening or two , the film vanished ; trailers too . life went on . the test numbers for the real war surged downward to darkness .
the movie is okay but it has a lot of loopholes . joshua is a sick child who is both brilliant and insane . his actions were all well calculated and planned . this is a case of extreme sibling rivalry . . joshua has been very insecure with his parents ' love for him which was brought about by lily his baby sister . i think joshua idolizes his uncle too much that he did everything just to ruin his own parents so that he could be with his uncle who was also a disturbed man .
“joshua” is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . it has breast - feeding , child - slapping , granny - pushing and rodent - stuffing .
< i > joshua < / i > is the tale of brad ( sam rockwell ) and abby ( vera farmiga ) cairn , perfect manhattan parents in a perfect manhattan apartment whose perfect life begins to crack after the birth of their second child lily . shortly after lily arrives home , a dark side of prodigy son joshua slowly begins to reveal itself .
for the lowly protagonist , david mann , spielberg hand - picked character actor dennis weaver because he loved his performance as the jittery and feeble hotel night manager in orson welles’s 1958 film touch of evil .
the screenwriters adopt a strategy of having all of joshua ' s crimes take place offscreen . they have their reasons . by keeping the crimes offstage , joshua ' s evil is never grounded in practicalities . he can float through the film as a frightening spirit of menace , as almost an abstraction . moreover , if we were to see him actually poisoning the hamsters in school , the spectacle might look unconvincing or unintentionally funny , and the whole picture could come crashing down . but as it stands , the picture doesn ' t crash - - it just never takes off .
but ultimately all this restraint leaves the impression that
joshua
was a thriller made by a director who just wasn ' t interested in thrilling . ratliff , who made the documentary
hell house ,
is more at home depicting the scenes of family life - - an uncompromising portrait of stress , fatigue and unhappiness . the film ' s dialogue has an expansive , naturalistic quality that makes the viewer feel like an eavesdropper . it ' s in these details that the movie ' s strengths lie , and people who like
joshua
will like it for these reasons .
what a strangle little film . i think this is one of those films that needs to be watched a second time before you can fully appreciate it . maybe . i ' ve yet to find out .
having taken an interest in ancient egypt & the mummification process , we about half expect joshua will be using a long skinny spoon to scoop out his baby sister ' s brains through her nose . but there is no goriness to the film , & though he does eventually get round to mummifying something , in the main this interest merely adds to the suspense of a story that remains strictly psychological .
part of the fun of joshua is the skill with which ratliff juggles horror and realism , feeding one into the other until we become part of the unraveling of the cairns ' perfect life .
the closing themesong , david matthews '
the fly ,
is a sweet tune of horror that explains it all , in case any of us missed the point . it ' s sung first by joshua as one of the creepiest serenades of love ever seen on film , then by matthews behind the end credits . it made me watch all the credits just to hear the song while my stomach continued sinking with a kind of awe for what it reveals . too bad the whole film wasn ' t as awe - inspiring as this close , but it ' s frankly in great part david matthews ' doing .
the whispering routine , however , seems to have been an afterthought & not well developed . it ' s as though the film were mostly in the can when someone said ,
hey , we could call it
i don ' t like soccer ,
joshua says later that night . tucked into bed , he looks up at brad , who does his inept best to reassure him : it ' s okay not to play soccer , it ' s okay not to like baseball . joshua persists .
do you ever feel weird about me , your weird son ?
brad blanches , caught out with no ready answer except the usual platitudes . so now you know : joshua - - brilliant student , musical prodigy - - is feeling unloved , jealous , and afraid . and he ' s weird .
joshua falls a bit flat at the end , but overall it delivers some genuine old - school chills - something that was missing when macaulay culkin played a similar role in
the good son .
joshua
is a masterful study in subtlety that proves horror films don ' t necessarily require gouged eyes and decapitations to earn their place in the higher echelons of the genre . take the recent
the cairn ' s life seems to be a harmonic family : the father brad works as a stockbroker , his wife abby takes care of their common new - born daughter lily , and the 9 - year - old joshua is high - talented . but the appearances are deceptive . joshua becomes gradual jealously , that his parents give the baby more attention than him . therefore he begins to terrorize his family .
the arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the cairn family ; particularly for 9 - year - old joshua , an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn .
i would warn the dear reader of this review to stop now & read no further , as almost anything said of the film will be a spoiler . it would be better to view it before finishing my analysis thereof . if it ' s review enough , i can assure the reader it ' s definitely worth watching ; its small surprises will be more effective if you enter the film completely uncertain who in the story is the nuttiest of a nutty batch .
as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film , there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck . spielberg , who wanted the truck to seem
the cairn ' s life seems to be a harmonic family : the father brad works as a stockbroker , his wife abby takes care of their common new - born daughter lily , and the 9 - year - old joshua is high - talented . but the appearances are deceptive . joshua becomes gradual jealously , that his parents give the baby more attention than him . therefore he begins to terrorize his family . written by rsavlsg
here ' s a type of horror film which reflects a cultural fear of children . if children are especially intelligent , they will use their intelligence to cause harm . if they develop a special power , they will use it for harm .
anyone who ' s ever heard ( or just imagined ) troubling sounds coming from a fuzzy baby monitor or fretted while their fifth - grader traversed a big - city crosswalk will have their nerves seriously jangled by joshua .
i ' m not so sure that the writers left this movie without an ending . i think the message is in joshua ' s composition at the end of the son , as well as hidden in the nature of his relationship with his parents throughout the movie . joshua is a constant figure in the film , however , when his parents are present , he becomes scenery . he repeatedly questions his parents love for him , however discusses in his song that he never doubted his uncle ' s love for him . perhaps the point was not for joshua to continue to kill until there was no one left , but rather to set it up such that custody of him and his sister should go to his uncle
as it always should have been
. with his mother , grandmother and father out of the way , the only relative who could take custody of he and his sister was his uncle .
are simply awful at just 16 % positive . furthermore , early reports suggest the audience reaction won’t be much better . it’s too soon to tell if this film is going to underperform already low expectations , but this is not a good sign .
the arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the cairn family ; particularly for 9 - year - old joshua ( kogan ) , an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn .
the arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the cairn family ; particularly for 9 - year - old joshua ( kogan ) , an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes . . . see more »
joshua is definitely a disturbed child , but it must be questioned why he is the way he is . parental influence must have played some role in this . although i don ' t think joshua has been abused , as is claimed in this movie , i think his mother and father are both unstable to different degrees . being as bright as he is , joshua is probably very aware of this . and like the person who posted the last comment , i believe he does everything he does not purely because he is evil . i think he just wants to live a life with his uncle that would be drastically better for him than the current situation with his parents .
the contrived script expects us to believe that joshua ' s fainting spells , his nocturnal home videos of his sleeping family and his acts of violence on crowded new york city streets fail to raise suspicion until it is too late .
do you know what joshua said to his sister on the video which is watched by brad ? you know , the video recorded by joshua during the night with the infrared video - camera . i did ' nt hear what he said . . . the theory in which joshua has been abused by ned is possible . but i think he feels forsaken by his mother who is always with lily , and by his father who is always working ( and maybe is cheating on abby ) . . . so , he has just wanted to change his parents by ned without killing . . . and i think it because of the video that he started to look for separate from his parents .
when his dad at last comes to the realization of how deeply narcisistic & evil his son is , he sets out to protect the infant & himself in the worst conceivable ways , proclaiming open warfare on joshua . alas for brad , joshua ' s way , way ahead of him . and before it ' s over , daddy won ' t be able to argue very convincingly that he ' s not himself a vicious child abuser whose kid is innocence personified .
the 1996 yugoslavian film pretty village , pretty flame proves that hit films don’t necessarily translate from continent to continent . while it received plenty of favorable reviews from american film critics , pretty village , pretty flame only managed to attract $ 211 worth of business when it received a one - theater / one - week release on january 16 , 1998 . a far cry from the nearly 800 , 000 moviegoers who caught it in serbia ( which was close to 10 percent of the country’s total population at the time ) .
will one of the nation ' s greatest violinists be noticed in a d . c . metro stop during rush hour ? joshua bell experimented for gene weingarten ' s story in the washington post : urltoken ( video by john w . poole )
and $ 171 . 2 worldwide . its biggest opening came from the u . k . , where it earned $ 14 . 50 million in 608 theaters , while mexico wasn’t far behind with $ 12 . 34 million . however , arguably its most impressive opening came in brazil where it earned $ 7 . 5 million , which is the best opening for an animated film in that market . the film has already made enough to pay for its $ 75 million production budget , so it is a monster hit . however , its decline from
so , indeed , my biggest qualms with the film is that the writers did not commit to either explaining joshua nor to him really becoming the monster . he is a monster . it ' s pretty clear that he killed his grandmother , though she honestly could have fallen . we know that he drove his mother crazy or , at least , pushed her over the edge . so , why not have him go all the way ? it might have been the more artistically enthralling way to end the film without explanation , but the device can also be used when the writers don ' t know where to go next . they ' ve built all this up , but cannot figure out how to end it or where to go with it . there is no good triumphs over evil in this film , and we are left without knowing what will happen to joshua , why he ' s this way , nor whether he will eventually take the lives of those remaining in his life . artistically , it is up to us to decide . we don’t get the perfect resolution like in the good son where susan evans must choose to drop one of two children off a cliff , her own son henry who has been wreaking havoc on their lives for months , or her nephew mark . guess which one she chooses ?
joshua : suspense thriller . starring sam rockwell , vera farmiga , dallas roberts and jacob kogan . ( r . 105 minutes . at bay area theaters . for complete listings and show times , and to buy tickets to select theaters , go to urltoken
homeless man : can you help me out , little man ? just something . anything . i ' m no chooser here . joshua cairn : i ' ll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you . see more »
and having a high opinion of himself , joshua doesn ' t find them worthy of him ; so even if they ' d remained sufficiently doting & attentive , there ' s a good chance he ' d ' ve still set out to destroy them .
such is the opening which in the dvd ' s extras we find out has a connection to the rest of the story ( she was the evil child ' s nanny ) , though in the final edit of the film , the opening scene has nothing to do with anything .
in a way normalcy is the subject of “joshua , ” which opens friday . the title character is a 9 - year - old prodigy — an exceptional student , a brilliant musician — whose more ordinary parents , played by mr . rockwell and vera farmiga , don’t know quite what to make of him . trouble is , he knows exactly what to make of them . and when joshua’s place in the family is threatened by a baby sister , his reaction is typical , but his behavior is a bit extreme .
opened with $ 7 . 84 million . it is also a little better than its debut here , given the size of the two markets , and the slumping rubles . on the other hand , the film managed $ 13 . 9 million in the u . k . , compared to
will fall just short of $ 60 million at the box office this weekend , according to sunday estimates from paramount . the studio has the film coming in at $ 59 . 6 million over three days , which is substantially short of the $ 79 . 2 million earned on debut by
eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck , yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom . the studio wanted a big explosion , but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .
buffing its tacky premise to an industrial - strength gloss , “joshua” zeroes in on the privileged marriage of brad and abby cairn ( sam rockwell and vera farmiga ) , whose plush new york city apartment boasts a grand piano and a central park view . the piano is for their 9 - year - old son , joshua ( jacob kogan ) , a musical prodigy and a joyless child with televangelist - perfect hair and an unhealthy interest in embalming . favoring preppie outfits and ramrod posture , joshua is as polished and robotic — and as lethal to old ladies and small animals — as his cinematic forebears , like rhoda in “the bad seed” and henry in “the good son , ” though neither , to my recollection , ever broke from ghoulish pursuits long enough to master beethoven’s piano sonata no . 12 .
still took second place with ease , but it was the only other film to earn more than $ 10 million over the independence day long weekend . overall , the box office pulled in $ 132 million over the weekend , which is 27 % less than last weekend . compared to the same weekend
if i shared a bit more of our cultural phobia about children , the preposterous character of joshua would ' ve been one of the best psychopaths seen in a while , a well - made & profoundly cynical tale of suspense that completely justifies a terror of little boys .
with $ 29 . 2 million . this is the best single day for an animated film this year . to emphasize , this isn’t just the best opening day , but the best single day , and it should top that on saturday . the previous record was $ 23 . 00 million , earned by
the snakerama gas station seen in the film also appears in spielberg ' s 1979 world war ii comedy , 1941 , with actress lucille benson again appearing as the proprietor . the two elderly people weaver tries to flag down in a car also appear as helpless motorists in close encounters of the third kind .
intelligent and realistic about its subject matter , the running themes , including sibling jealousy , familial dissidence , and parent - child relations , consistently hit a relevant note . ultimately , it is the knowledge of all the horrific possibilities for what could happen rather than the foresight of what does happen where the film ratchets up and then maintains its entrancing levels of fear and dread . sleekly photographed by benoit debie and brilliantly scored by nico muhlythe use of the off - key piano chords are an invaluable atmospheric addition
joshua
is a haunting and evocative motion picture that stays with you .
after winning a slew of awards and nominations at film festivals and other key industry events around the world—including a world cinema grand jury prize nomination at sundance—you would think that carlos moreno’s colombian crime world drama dog eat dog would have the legs to sustain a single - cinema theatrical release . and you would be wrong .
the woods where the dogs live will become the major setting for the bulk of the film , but gone from the final edit is any connection to the evil child , any reason for the nanny having been in that distant neck of the woods , like much that will unfold , it ' s all just nonsense .
the financial failure of this mexican horror flick certainly isn’t a result of shoddy marketing materials ; its u . s . distributor , magnolia pictures , even earned a golden trailer award nomination for best horror poster . the film currently holds a zero percent rating on rotten tomatoes ( though 22 percent of the audience liked it ) .
the little fellow in
joshua
is hateful , but it ' s not fun hating him . he ' s vile . he ' s obnoxious . he ' s fake in his every utterance , but not amusingly fake - - disturbingly fake , in that one can see how he ' d fool his parents , who are exhausted from overwork and from dealing with a screaming infant . ( guess who ' s making the infant scream ? ) if you ' ve never wanted to punch a child in the face , see
joshua
and discover a whole new side of yourself .
' joshua . ' thriller about a family that falls apart after the birth of a baby . with sam rockwell , vera farmiga . director : george ratliff ( 1 : 40 ) . r : language , disturbing images . at the village 7 , regal e - walk and loews 84th street .
fortunately , he added , he had “just chewed up all the scenery in ‘snow angels . ’ ” in that unreleased movie , which like “joshua” was first seen at sundance in january , he plays “a born - again christian alcoholic who’s chasing after his ex - wife and kind of goes postal . ”
as proof that the site can ruin a film’s box office chances . besides that charge , the other two main complaints i’m hearing over and over again are a . ) rotten tomatoes is a very shallow site , especially the tomatometer . and b . ) it is killing in - depth critical examination of movies . i’ll tackle those claims below .
the note that joshua leaves for his father reads :
dad , / eaten lunch already / and gone to / the brooklyn museum of art / having fun with nunu and lily .
if you arrange the first letter of each line in order , it reveals an acrostic for
death .
see more »
characterized by repeated , precisely composed and internal frames , joshua carefully builds a case against the boy , his actions unseen but affecting abby apparently by the hour . during a family dinnertime , he watches them with lily , then announces that someone died in their apartment .
someone has died on pretty much every inch of this planet ,
he informs his parents , their startled faces nearly frozen as they look back at him . again with the creepiness : after studying mummies , joshua disembowels his stuffed pandy , explaining to a dumbfounded brad that the egyptians broke a dead body ' s nose and
drained the brain through its opening .
for all its surface glamour and mainstream ambitions “joshua” taps into something dark and guilty about being a parent , acknowledging that innocence is not necessarily every child’s default position . “you don’t have to love me , ” joshua tells his stunned father , admitting — in a way the adult cannot — that some children are intrinsically unlovable . because of this attention to naturalism , the movie digs deeper than its predecessors to unearth truths that few parents care to face . ( witness the storm of outrage when the writer ayelet waldman confessed , in a 2005 essay and later on “the oprah winfrey show , ” to loving her husband more than her children . )
, and 2014 could not compete with that , so it lost ground to 2013 . june hopes to turn things around and there are some reasons to be optimistic . all four weeks there is at least one film opening that at least has a shot at $ 100 million . there are even two films that at least have a shot at $ 300 million .
the first scene in joshua is both banal and ominous . young boys are playing soccer , the camera focused on their thin , be - socksed legs as they kick the ball and dash across the grass . the idyll is instantly adjusted when the coach yells out ,
you ' re playing like a bunch of little girls !
but it’s sam rockwell’s spectacular turn as the harried paterfamilias that simultaneously binds the film and pushes its boundaries . whether coddling his character’s doped - up wife or reaching out to his wacky son , mr . rockwell is never less than convincing as a stressed - out dad whose life is slowly disintegrating . the story might get away from him , but his grip on that character never falters .
we are introduced to a well - cast young actor , jacob koban as eight year old joshua . this young actor seems to understand the concept of
less is more
& presents a blank gaze & dandified veneer that permits to viewer to project onto him every expectation already in them about how bad even a well - behaved child might really be .
is by far their biggest property . even including the film’s grosses from wednesday and thursday , its $ 69 million debut is barely in the top ten for the year so far , and poor reviews and a b + cinemascore mean that it won’t have significant legs , even with a bit of help from the upcoming july 4 weekend . so all eyes are going to be on its overseas performance .
easily won the race for the top of the box office chart and became the first film released in 2014 to earn more than $ 100 million during its opening weekend . granted , it barely made it , but we will take it . this helped the overall box office climb by 20 % to $ 190 million over the weekend . unfortunately , this was still 8 % lower than the same weekend
the staging of the doom of vince ( joel edgerton ) involving sneaky evil david , one of his hellhounds , & an ice - covered lake , is one of the better horror sequences in a film with fewer good bits than it needed . the doom of roxane ( sarah wayne callies ) & the doom of the detective ( dule hill ) both fail miserably , for lack of imagination or emotional content .
spielberg got his start directing for tv at the age of 21 , helming episodes of such shows as night gallery and marcus welby , m . d . but the aspiring filmmaker was desperately searching for a property he could turn into a feature film . it was spielberg ' s secretary , nona tyson , who found matheson’s story in playboy and first sent it to her boss to potentially adapt into a movie .
it ' d be a stressful situation even if joshua ' s plan wasn ' t , in essence , to insure that neither his mother nor his father is ever loved by anyone ever , to the end of their lives . yep . that ' s the plan . and honest to shit , it ' s a much spookier plan than just killing ' em outright .
“ghastly” kind of says it all . this 1950s - inspired sci - fi musical—which stars creed bratton ( a . k . a . creed from the office ) —may have nabbed five awards on the american film festival circuit , but it only managed to scare up $ 117 during the week it spent in a single theater in kansas city , kansas in october 2012 . maybe that’s because it had screened at the kansas international film festival less than three weeks earlier ? in the spring of 2013 , johnny tried again , placing the movie in six theaters over the course of four weeks . while it managed to break the $ 1000 mark in revenues when it showed in two theaters in l . a . ( $ 1356 to be exact ) , its total run earned back just $ 2436 of its estimated $ 2 million budget .
with : sam rockwell ( brad cairn ) , vera farmiga ( abby cairn ) , celia weston ( hazel cairn ) , dallas roberts ( ned davidoff ) , michael mckean ( chester jerkins ) , alex draper ( stewart slocum ) , nancy giles ( betsy polsheck ) , linda larkin ( ms . danforth ) , stephanie roth haberle ( pediatrician ) and jacob kogan ( joshua cairn ) .
and i would be surprised if it tops $ 150 million by any serious margin . june looks a lot more profitable . there are five weeks and every week there is at least one film with a great shot at $ 100 million or more . in fact , there are four films with at least a decent shot at $ 200 million and we could double the number of $ 300 million hits released so far this year .
) is an emotional wreck for the bulk of the running time as mother abby . it initially seems as if she is the crazy one in the family , prone to unpleasant mood swings and at her wit ' s end over dealing with her fussy new daughter . as she fights to keep it together for the love of her son , the question becomes : is abby losing her mind , or is it all being meticulously orchestrated by joshua ? the answer is left somewhat ambiguousmy inclination is that her problems stem from bothand that is as it should be . a scene in which abby and joshua play hide - and - seek is dripping with the kind of suspense rarely seen and captured , and it ' s a testament to director george ratliff that he achieves this despite little in the way of action occurring .
but more than anything ,
joshua
is a showcase for the immensely gifted rockwell , who pushes himself through an astonishing range of emotions . and every aspect of his character - the cool dad , the terrified husband , the placating son - is completely convincing . well , almost completely : by the end , we know better than to believe him when he insists that everything is going to be just fine .
in june , universal floated an autumn release date—and a new trailer . it recuts much of the same material with some new stuff , newly dark and ominous , now scored to u2’s “bullet the blue sky . ” “allow us to help your men catch this criminal , ” pleads team leader jamie foxx . “we shouldn’t be here . we shouldn’t be here ! ” professes their host . cut to patrician politico : “the end comes no matter what . the only thing that matters is , how do you wanna go out ? ” a movie about why we had to go in becomes a movie about how we should comport ourselves while there , with hints of exit strategy and a militant - pacifist soundtrack—the film seemingly edited from pro - to antiwar , without ever being released . the circuit of culture grows shorter than ever ; the intermediate phase , where cultural studies labors to suture the film to the history around it , has been rendered obsolete .
it’s no accident that mr . rockwell cited three particularly creepy films to make his point . “joshua” is the latest in a long line of “bad seed” movies that portray children as avatars of evil . mr . ratliff knows that his movie can be construed as a nightmare view of parenthood . “i always blame david gilbert , my co - writer , ” he said in a telephone interview . “it was 100 percent his idea . ”
it ' s gonna get better
is brad ' s mantra , but it doesn ' t . in fact , it gets much , much worse . and joshua , it ' s becoming clear , is at the center of the storm . it ' s always been obvious that he ' s an unusual boy , but brad , much to his own horror , is starting to wonder if he ' s an evil one .
it’s certainly a far cry from the sleek , rambling upper east side apartment of the family in “joshua . ” the boy , played with eerie calm by jacob kogan , goes to an elite private school . mr . rockwell’s character is a hedge - fund manager who plays squash at a fancy club . at home mr . rockwell has no central park views , and he exercises at crunch . his passion is boxing , not squash .
less than one month after he accepted a best actor oscar for his portrayal of idi amin in the last king of scotland , forest whitaker was making news of a different sort when the supernatural thriller he starred in alongside gabrielle anwar was released in one theater for three days and recouped less than . 005 percent of its $ 7 million budget . as the film’s tagline stated :
you can bury the past , but sometimes the past won ' t stay buried . . .
) is an unsung dramatic actor who finds the truth in each moment and holds on it . the way in which his character metamorphosizes is disconcerting and yet absolutely electrifying , going from a happy - go - lucky dad with undying love for joshua to a beaten - down soul on the verge of losing everything and questioning who his son really is . in a nicely nuanced and understated supporting turn , dallas roberts ( 2006 ' s
in this coldly elegant setting , evil manifests without the aid of the usual retro - gothic signifiers like the inverted crucifix or the malevolent nanny . instead the sinister is an elusive presence , as much a part of the mise - en - scène as the baby’s crib , to which joshua is developing an eerie attraction . but for abby , trapped in her gleaming prison with not one but two disagreeable children , the more immediate horror is motherhood itself .
,
for example , seen by myself less than an hour before
joshua .
the former spared no expense on the red stuff , but that apparently didn ' t leave enough money for acquiring a good script . the end result was a movie that was unscary and dramatically cold . by comparison , this modern - day
bad seed
tale expertly weaves a spell of genuine frights and jittery tension even in the most innocuous of scenes .
hence this version of film criticism seems of late like child’s play . the geopolitics decoder ring always works , and with a minimum of twiddles : 1–2–3 baghdad ! ( alternately , the count can go 9–11 - new york ! ) cinematic administrations are always dummies for the current regimes ; villains , once mere criminals , now tend toward self - serving ideologues , worshipping at the altar of blow - stuff - up - ism . when we go out at night , terror is the order of the day .


anjada gandu ( kannada : ಅಂಜದ ಗಂಡು ) is a 2014 indian kannada romantic comedy film directed by pradeep raj , and starring sathish ninasam and debutant actress subiksha in lead roles .

a remake of the 2012 tamil film , manam kothi paravai , anjada gandu is sathish neenasam 's first commercial film as a solo hero , and was released 31 january 2014 .

anjada gandu ( 2014 film )

anjada gandu kannada movie cast & crew , actors , actress , director and release dates .
anjada gandu – ಅಂಜದ ಗಂಡು | kannada full movie hd | v . ravichandran , kushboo , devaraj
anjada gandu – ಅಂಜದ ಗಂಡು | kannada full movie hd | v . ravichandran , kushboo , devaraj - youtube
anjada gandu ( ಅಂಜದ ಗಂಡು ) is a 2014 indian kannada romantic comedy film directed by pradeep raj , and starring sathish ninasam and debutant actress subiksha in lead roles .
satish gets to play a ‘commercial hero’ finally . anjada gandu is not a compulsive watch , but it has its endearing moments .
malayali beauty subhiksha is making her sandalwood debut with anjada gandu . she has performed her role as an innocent village girl beautifully .
anjada gandu is simply rocking in its amazing dialogues . as the movie is set in the rural backdrop , it is filled with many kannada proverbs and other sayings .
anjada gandu is a remake of tamil hit movie manam kothi paravai . in remake version sathish ninasam and subhiksha are playing the main lead roles along with . . .
anjada gandu is a kannada language movie . the movie was originally released on 31 january 2014 . remake of the laugh riot manam kothi paravai . release date : 31 january 2014 director : pradeep raj genre : comedy , romance star cast : sathish ninasam , raju talikote , subhiksha
rowdy is a 2014 telugu crime film written and directed by ram gopal varma .
* his subsequent films like ranadheera , anjada gandu , ramachaari , yuddha kaanda , halli meshtru , annayya , gadibidi ganda , sipayi etc were huge box office hit and remained as benchmark romantic films in the film history .
jai lalitha ( ಜೈಲಲಿತ ) is a 2014 kannada comedy film directed by pon kumaran .
madras is a 2014 tamil political drama film written and directed by pa . ranjith .
mundasupatti is a 2014 tamil adventure comedy film directed by ram starring vishnu and nandita .
the 2014 anti - muslim riots in sri lanka were religious and ethnic riots in june 2014 in south - western sri lanka .
jaihind 2 is a 2014 indian tamil action - masala film produced and directed by arjun .
lingaa is a 2014 indian tamil action drama film directed by k . s . ravikumar .
ramanujan is a 2014 biographical film based on the life of renowned indian mathematician srinivasa ramanujan .
sathish’s first release of 2014 was anjada gandu , a romantic drama film set in a rural backdrop , with him playing the role of santhu . in his next , kwatle sathisa , he played a comic role of satheesha , a patient of temporary memory loss , a role that won him praise from critics .
kalavaram ( riot ) is a 2014 tamil film directed by ramesh selvan and produced by ravichandran .
malini 22 palayamkottai ( or malini 22 ) is a 2014 indian film , directed by sripriya .
vadacurry is a 2014 indian tamil comedy - thriller film written and directed by debutant saravana rajan .
though the title of the film will reminds us the early movie of crazy star ravichandran and khushboo ' s anjada gandu , it is totally a different film with a refreshing tale . as his previous movie kirataka , director pradeep raj has set anjadu gandu in rural backdrop ( mandya ) . it deals with the love story of a village guy santhu ( neensam sathish ) . the film starts with a flashback , which is narrated by santhu .
kaththi ( the knife ) is a 2014 indian tamil drama thriller film written and directed by ar murugadoss .
venmegam is a 2014 tamil film directed by director duo ram - laxman and produced by sujatha sunitha combines .
60ml : last order is a 2014 malayalam short film about alcoholism , written and directed by krishna murali .
director pradeep raj has once again chosen to remake a tamil movie . ( this one is a copy of manam kothi paravai ) . rural karnataka for him is only mandya and anjada gandu , like his kiraataka earlier , is set there . the film is supposed to be a romantic comedy .
anjaan ( fearless ) is the soundtrack composed by yuvan shankar raja for the 2014 tamil film of the same name .
ennamo nadakkudhu ( english : something is happening ) is a 2014 indian tamil thriller film written and directed by rajapandi .
jigarthanda : music from the motion picture is the soundtrack album of the 2014 musical gangster film of the same name .
oka laila kosam ( for a laila ) is a 2014 telugu romance film written and directed by vijay kumar konda .
years ago the movie titled anjada gandu which starred ravichandran in the lead role , was a sensational hit and had a wave of newness . now director pradeep raj , has en - cashed on the title of the superhit movie and is directing a movie of the same name .
the comedy is , however , not in the romance and the romantic part between the lead pair is not very convincing . despite these obvious drawbacks , the film is entertaining to a certain extent . a little more finesse would have helped though . the original ‘anjada gandu’ was ravichandran , which again was a remake .
buddhanum chaplinum chirikkunnu ( english : buddha & chaplin smile ) is an upcoming 2014 malayalam film directed by r . sarath .
love in mandya ( ಲವ್ ಇನ್ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ) is a 2014 indian kannada language romance film written and directed by arasu anthare .
megha is an 2014 indian tamil romantic thriller film written and directed by karthik rishi , a former associate of subramaniam siva .
vallinam ( வல்லினம் ; hardness ) is a 2014 tamil sports drama film directed by arivazhagan venkatachalam and produced by aascar ravichandran .
vanmam ( vengeance ) is a 2014 indian tamil drama film directed by jai krishna , a former assistant of kamal haasan .
neenasam sathish who needs no introduction for his humour and his village boy avatar is the highlight of the film . anjada gandu definitely provides sathish , the platform he is aspiring for - lead roles in movies . he is sure to be seen in lead roles for many years from now . subiksha makes her debut in sandalwood with
maan karate ( deer karate ) is a 2014 indian tamil fantasy film directed by thirukumaran , a former associate of ar murugadoss .
pattaya kelappanum pandiya is a 2014 tamil comedy film directed by s . p . rajkumar and produced by m . ani muthu .
vetri selvan is a 2014 indian tamil thriller drama film directed by rudhran featuring ajmal ameer and radhika apte in the lead roles .
yevadu ( who is he ? ) is a 2014 indian telugu action thriller film co - written and directed by vamsi paidipally .
in 2014 , satish started his film production company , satish picture house . it was revealed in september 2014 , that the first film under the banner was titled rocket . it will be directed by debutant jagadish kumar . he also plays the lead role in in the film opposite aishani shetty .
drushyam ( visual ) is a 2014 indian telugu thriller film directed by sripriya and jointly produced by daggubati suresh babu and rajkumar sethupathi .
kappal ( the ship ) is a 2014 indian tamil comedy film directed by karthik g . krish , a former assistant of shankar .
fair & lovely ( ಫೇರ್ & ಲವ್ಲೀ ) is a 2014 indian kannada romance drama film written and directed by d . p . raghuram .
irumbu kuthirai ( english : iron horse ) is a 2014 tamil action film written and directed by yuvaraj bose and produced by ags entertainment .
salim is a 2014 indian tamil action thriller film directed by n . v . nirmal kumar , who was an associate to bharathi raja .
yaan ( யான் , me ) is a 2014 indian tamil action - thriller film written , directed and filmed by ravi k . chandran .
yennamo yedho ( something random ) is a 2014 indian tamil romantic comedy film directed by ravi thyagarajan starring gautham karthik and rakul preet singh .
anjada gandu is a remake of the tamil film , manam kothi paravai . this laugh riot is a sentimental family film and is set in a village . the film ` s story revolves around a love story where the guy falls in love with a girl who is daughter of a goon . to save his love from arrange marriage he kidnaps her . but the girl doesn ` t love the guy . what will be the repercussions of this act , forms the story of the film .
2014 odisha jaundice outbreak ( initially known as the 2014 sambalpur jaundice outbreak ) refers to an outbreak of mainly hepatitis e and also hepatitis a which began in the town of sambalpur in odisha , india .
: anjada gandu is a remake of the tamil film , manam kothi paravai . this laugh riot is a sentimental family film and is set in a village . the film ` s story revolves around a love story where the guy falls in love with a girl who is daughter of a goon . to save his love from arrange marriage he kidnaps her . but the girl doesn ` t love the guy . what will be the repercussions of this act , forms the story of the film .
ajith kumar is an indian film actor based out of the chennai film industry .
aagadu ( he will not halt ) is a 2014 telugu action comedy film directed by srinu vaitla starring mahesh babu and tamannaah in lead roles .
idhuvum kadandhu pogum ( this too shall pass ) is a 2014 indian tamil tragedy drama film directed by the debutants anil krishnan and srihari prabaharan .
tenaliraman ( previously titled jagajala pujabala tenaliraman ) is a 2014 tamil historical fiction political satire comedy film directed by yuvaraj dhayalan of potta potti fame .
hassan al - nouri ( born 1960 ) was a candidate for the syrian presidential election in june 2014 .
gargar mandala ( kannada : ಗರ್ ಗರ್ ಮಂಡ್ಲ ) is a 2014 indian kundapura kannada film directed by ravi basrur and produced under the banner inkfinite pictures .
gubeer ( english : cheers ) is a 2014 tamil black comedy drama cult film , written and directed by thilipkumar rajendren and produced by archer cinemas .
kaaviya thalaivan ( epic ruler ) is the 2014 soundtrack album to the tamil historical fiction film of the same name , written and directed by vasanthabalan .
manam ( us ) is a 2014 indian telugu drama film written and directed by vikram kumar and produced by akkineni family under the annapurna studios banner .
vaayai moodi pesavum ( speak with your mouth shut ) is a 2014 tamil romantic comedy film directed by balaji mohan starring dulquer salman and nazriya nazim .
alludu seenu ( english translation : son - in - law seenu ) is a 2014 telugu action - comedy film directed by v . v . vinayak .
oggarane ( kannada ) , un samayal arayil ( tamil ) , ulavacharu biryani ( telugu ) is a 2014 multilingual indian romance film directed by prakash raj .
pradeep raj who is back with a remake is sure to entertain the audience with anjada gandu . actor neenasam satish who is currently basking in the success of lucia plays the lead role while subiksha from chennai will be seen as the lead actress . we will have to wait and watch if the combo of pradeep and neenasam satish will be able to impress the audience .
ee dil helide nee bekantha is a 2014 kannada romance - drama film directed by tm srinivasa and produced by sridhara s under the banner of sai krishna enterprises .
money ratnam ( english translation : money diamond ) is a 2014 indian malayalam comedy thriller film , directed by debutant santosh nair starring fahadh faasil and niveda thomas .
station is a 2014 hindi thriller film written and directed by saad khan and was produced by sumit ghosh media , an independent company that promote talents from bangalore .
amara is a 2014 tamil language film written , filmed and directed by m . jeevan and produced by s . a . jalavudhin under the banner of tkm films .
burma is a 2014 tamil crime thriller directed by ddharani dharan and produced by sudharshan vembutty under the banner square stone films .
naan than bala ( english : i ' m bala ) is a 2014 tamil drama film directed by kannan and produced by j . a . lawrence under sss entertainments .
rajadhiraja ( english : the king of kings ) is a 2014 malayalam film , directed by ajai vasudev and written by the duo of udayakrishna - siby k . thomas .
aadama jaichomada ( english : we won without playing ) is a 2014 tamil comedy film directed by badri and produced by b & c films that deals with corruption in cricket .
drishya ( ದೃಶ್ಯ , visual ) is a 2014 indian kannada language drama thriller film directed by p . vasu and starring v . ravichandran and navya nair in the lead roles .
velaiilla pattadhari ( unemployed graduate ) , popularly referred to as vip , is a 2014 indian tamil masala film written , directed and filmed by velraj , in his directorial debut .
balanathan benjamin mahendran ( 20 may 1939 – 13 february 2014 ) , commonly known as balu mahendra , was a cinematographer , director , screenwriter and film editor , who worked in various indian film industries , primarily in tamil cinema .
in the lead roles . renuka sharma directed this film . the film is a remake of tamil original
the following is a timeline of the presidency of maithripala sirisena from his first announcement as presidential candidate in november 2014 to the present .
oru oorla rendu raja ( english : two kings in a town ) is a 2014 indian tamil comedy film written and directed by r . kannan and produced by s . michael rayappan .
temper is the feature film soundtrack composed by anoop rubens for the 2015 telugu film of the same name .
daawat - e - ishq ( english : feast of love ) is a 2014 indian romantic comedy film directed by habib faisal and produced by aditya chopra under the banner of yash raj films .
december - 1 ( ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ - 1 ) is a 2014 indian kannada film written and directed by p . sheshadri starring niveditha , santosh uppina and h . g . dattatreya in lead roles .
sathuranga vettai ( english : chess hunt / gambit hunt ) is a 2014 tamil black comedy - heist film written and directed by debutant h . vinoth , starring natarajan subramaniam and ishara nair .
wast ` ithu kathirvelan kadhal ( english : this is kathirvelan ' s love ) is a 2014 tamil comedy drama film written and directed by s . r . prabhakaran starring udhayanidhi stalin and nayanthara .
the indian general election of 2014 was held to constitute the 16th lok sabha , electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies of india .
kambalapally chandra shekar ( 16 july 1965 – 19 may 2014 ) was an indian cartoonist known for his political cartoons in english and in telugu .
yash aradhya is 13 years old an indian kart racing driver and india ' s jk tyre national racing championship 2014 in the micro max category .
kailasam balachander ( 9 july 1930 – 23 december 2014 ) was an indian director , producer , writer , actor , playwright , stage conductor , and comedian who worked mainly in the tamil film industry .
kathai thiraikathai vasanam iyakkam ( story , screenplay , dialogue , direction ; also referred to as ktvi ) is a 2014 tamil film written and directed by r . parthiepan and produced by k . chandramohan .
kazhcha chalachithra vedi ( കാഴ്ച ചലച്ചിത്ര വേദി or kazhcha film forum ) is a film collective in kerala state , india .
thottal thodarum is a 2015 tamil romantic thriller film written and directed by famous tamil film critic and writer cable sankar .
the mahabharata quest : the alexander secret is the second novel by indian author christopher c . doyle and was released on 9 october 2014 by westland publishers .
govindudu andarivadele ( govind is a people ' s man ) , also known as gav , is a 2014 indian telugu family drama film written and directed by krishna vamsi and produced by bandla ganesh for parameswara art productions .
. talking about the film , sathish says ,
this is my first commercial film as a solo hero and my expectations are high for the film . though it is a remake ,
naaigal jaakirathai ( beware of dogs ) is a 2014 indian tamil comedy - thriller film , written and directed by shakti soundar rajan featuring sibiraj and a belgian shepherd dog named idoh in the lead , which is an indian adaptation of the hollywood comedy - crime film , turner & hooch .
grazing goat pictures is an indian film and tv production house launched in 2011 by hindi film actor akshay kumar and ashvini yardi .
the national film award for best music direction ( the silver lotus award ) is an honour presented annually at the national film awards by the directorate of film festivals to a musician who has composed the best score for films produced within the indian film industry .
poojai ( english : devotion ) is a 2014 indian tamil masala film directed by hari and produced by vishal , who himself plays the lead role alongside an ensemble cast featuring shruti haasan , sathyaraj , raadhika sarathkumar and mukesh tiwari .
major portions of the film was shot in mandya as it lends the backdrop to the film .
i will be speaking in mandya
rama varma kochaniyan thampuran ( 2 june 1912 − 5 february 2014 ) was an indian royal , who was the valiya thampuran or oldest male member of the cochin royal family .
kallappadam ( counterfeit film ) is a 2015 indian independent tamil thriller film written and directed by j . vadivel for first time producer dr .
the madras song
produced by the murugappa group is a tribute to the city of madras and was launched in commemoration of its 375th year which was celebrated in august 2014 .
inga enna solluthu ( english : what does it say here ? ) is a 2014 indian tamil comedy film directed by vincent selva , and produced and written by vtv ganesh who also plays the lead role , with meera jasmine and santhanam in supporting roles .
thanga meenkal ( gold fish ) is a 2013 indian tamil drama film written and directed by ram , directing his second film after kattradhu thamizh .
yashmith ( born 30 june 1985 ) is an indian film actor from chennai , tamil nadu , who works in the south indian film industry .
the satellite rights of the film were secured by sun tv . the film was given a
u
certificate by the indian censor board .
praveen prem ( 21 april 1984 ) is a south indian film actor who began his acting career in 2010 in the malayalam language film kadha thudarunnu .
anjada gandu is the super hit film featured by “v . ravichandran , ” thoogudeepa srinivas and “ khushboo . ” the film released in 1988 and attracted all class audiences . the film is the remake of the tamil film , thambikku endha ooru , featured by “ rajinikanth , ” “ madhavi ” “v s raghavan” and “ senthamarai . ” khushboo plays the arrogant rich lady and ravi plays the millionaire . but , he won’t reveal his identity as he had promised his dad , who sent him to his friend in a village to learn discipline and the positive and negative sides of life . how ravi changes the mindset of khushboo and marries her is interestingly told in the climax . like all the films of ravichandran , this is also a musical hit . “ hamsalekha ” had rendered fine tunes . now , the film had been revived and is available with the 5 . 1 soundtrack . it will be rereleased on 2nd december , as there are no releases in that week . stay glued with nettv4u for further updates on sandalwood !
* premaloka was ravichandran’s directorial debut and the film had the budget of one crore rupees , it was the highest budget film in kannada at that time .
the chennai international film festival ( ciff ) is a festival organised in the city of chennai , india , by a film society , the indo cine appreciation foundation ( icaf ) , with the support of the government of tamil nadu , the south indian film chamber of commerce and the film federation of india .
poomani ( பூமணி ) ( born 1947 ) is a sahithya academy winning tamil writer from kovilpatti in the south indian state of tamil nadu . he won sahithya academy award for his novel agnaadi in 2014 .
ravi sir am waiting for ur 100th film… . all d best sir . ………
captain is a 1994 bilingual telugu and tamil action film directed by kodi ramakrishna .
gayathrie shankar is a tamil film actress , who has appeared in leading roles .
life of josutty is a 2015 malayalam family drama film directed by jeethu joseph .
manasu rendum pudhusu is a 1994 tamil comedy film directed by p . amirtham .
minsara kanna is a 1999 tamil film directed by k . s . ravikumar .
nandita swetha is an indian film actress , who mainly appears in tamil films .
oraalppokkam ( ഒരാൾപ്പൊക്കം ) is a malayalam film written and directed by sanalkumar sasidharan .
pollachi mappillai is a 2010 indian tamil drama film directed by r . lakshmanan .
romeo juliet is a 2015 tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by lakshman .
sigappu rojakkal 2 is an upcoming tamil thriller film directed by manoj bharathiraja , which is based on his father bharathiraja ' s 1978 film of the same name .
sridevi is an upcoming telugu film starring anukriti govind sharma in the titular role .
srinda ashab is an indian film actress , who predominantly performs in malayalam films .
swami ayyappan is a 2012 animated indian film about the legend of swami ayyappan .
unnikrishnan mukundan is an indian film actor known for his work in malayalam cinema .
white is an upcoming malayalam film directed and co - written by uday ananthan .
chikkanna is the top draw in the comedy department . for most part of the film , it is his rustic mannerisms and dialogues that keep the film’s comedy ticking .
like other ravichandran movies released during late 80s this film was also a musical blockbuster .
abhirami is a 1992 tamil drama film directed dilip kumar , making his directorial debut .
anumol is a south indian film actress , predominantly acting in malayalam and tamil movies .
anushka sharma ( born 1 may 1988 ) is an indian film actress and producer .
arrambam ( beginning ) is a 2013 indian tamil thriller drama film directed by vishnuvardhan .
biriyani is a 2013 indian tamil comedy thriller film written and directed by venkat prabhu .
boys is a 2003 indian tamil coming - of - age film directed by shankar .
immanuel vasanth dinakaran , better known as d . imman ( டீ . இமான் ) , is an indian film composer and singer , predominantly working in the tamil film industry .
gopala gopala is a 2015 indian telugu satirical drama film directed by kishore kumar pardasany .
ilaignar ani is a 1994 tamil drama film directed by k . s . selvaraj .
kabali is an upcoming indian tamil mob film written and directed by pa . ranjith .
nadodi pattukkaran is a 1992 tamil drama film directed by n . k . viswanathan .
oosaravelli ( chameleon ) is a 2011 telugu romantic thriller film directed by surender reddy .
pathavi pramanam is a 1994 tamil action film directed by k . r . udhayashankar .
pizza ( पिज़्ज़ा ) is an indian hindi supernatural thriller film directed by akshay akkineni .
raavan is a 2010 indian thriller film directed , written and produced by mani ratnam .
selvaraghavan ( செல்வராகவன் ) is an indian film director who has directed predominantly tamil films .
thirumathi palanisamy is a 1992 tamil comedy - drama film directed by r . sundarrajan .
vaanga partner vaanga is a 1994 tamil comedy film directed and produced by rama narayanan .
the foreign policy of narendra modi ( also referred to as the modi doctrine ) concerns the policy initiatives made towards other states by the current modi government after he assumed office as prime minister of india on 26 may 2014 .
sudipto das ( born 12 july 1973 ) is the author of the novel the ekkos clan , released in july 2013 by niyogi books and the coffee table book myths & truths behind the ekkos clan , released in april 2014 .
aadukalam ( arena ) is a 2011 indian tamil drama film written and directed by vetrimaran .
bhuvana chandra is an indian lyricist , renowned for his work in the telugu film industry .
cinema express awards are presented annually by indian express group to honour artistic excellence of professionals in the south indian film industry which comprises tamil , telugu , kannada and malayalam film industries .
daggubati ramanaidu ( 6 june 1936 – 18 february 2015 ) was an indian film producer .
jeans ( born 29 september 1974 ) is an indian / tamil film director and actor .
a list of kannada language films produced in the kannada film industry in india in 2015 .
mahabalipuram is a 2015 indian tamil - language drama film written and directed by don sandy .
sardaar gabbar singh is an upcoming telugu action film directed by k . s . ravindra .
swathi reddy ( born 9 april 1987 ) is an indian film actress and television presenter .
vaali is a 1999 tamil thriller film written and directed by s . j . suryah .
mayakkam enna ( why this illusion ? ) is a 2011 tamil musical film written and directed by selvaraghavan and produced by gemini film circuit in assocaition with aum productions selvaraghavan is own banner .
india pakistan is a 2015 indian tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by n . anand .
miss kamala was a 1936 tamil language film written and directed by t . p . rajalakshmi .
padayappa is a 1999 indian tamil drama film written and directed by k . s . ravikumar .
paisa paisa is a 2013 indian malayalam thriller film written and directed by debutante director prasanth murali .
sri divya is an indian film and television actress , who acts in tamil and telugu films .
the film was declared as a hit comparing the budget and the collection at the box office .
munnariyippu ( english : warning ) is a 2014 malayalam language indian mystery thriller film directed by cinematographer venu and produced by ranjith , under the banner of gold coin motion pictures , based on a screenplay by unni r . the film stars mammootty and aparna gopinath in the lead roles , along with nedumudi venu , joy mathew , prathap pothan , sreeraman , renji panicker , saiju kurup , joshy mathew , sudheesh and prithviraj sukumaran in pivotal roles .
strangers on a train is an american psychological crime thriller film with film noir elements , produced and directed by alfred hitchcock , and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by patricia highsmith .
aarohanam ( crescendo ) is 2012 tamil drama film directed by actress - turned - director lakshmy ramakrishnan .
achcham yenbadhu madamaiyada is an upcoming indian tamil action - romance film written and directed by gautham menon .
aranmanai kaavalan ( palace ' s protector ) is a 1994 tamil drama film directed by selva vinayagam .
china town is a 2011 malayalam black comedy thriller film written and directed by the duo rafi mecartin .
irandaam ulagam ( second world ) is an indian tamil fantasy romance film written and directed by selvaraghavan .
mayabazar ( market of illusions ) is a 1957 indian epic fantasy film directed by kadiri venkata reddy .
nugam is a 2013 indian tamil drama film written and directed by jeffy and produced by synergy creations .
sana althaf ( born 6 june 1999 ) is an indian film actress who works in malayalam films .
thillu mullu is a 2013 tamil comedy film directed by badri who earlier directed veerappu and ainthaam padai .
thuppakki ( the gun ) is a 2012 indian tamil action film written and directed by ar murugadoss .
100 days of love is a 2015 malayalam romantic comedy film written and directed by debutant jenuse mohamed .
abhinav kamal ( born 2 july 1984 ) is an indian entrepreneur , film director , producer and screenwriter .
anand krishnamoorthi ( born 1980 ) is an indian film sound designer , sound editor and production sound mixer .
karnan is a 1964 indian tamil epic - biographical film produced and directed by b . r . panthulu .
maari is a 2015 tamil gangster comedy film written and directed by balaji mohan starring dhanush and kajal aggarwal .
mambattiyan is a 2011 tamil action film directed by thiagarajan , starring his son prashanth as the titular character .
osthe ( pinnacle ) is a 2011 indian tamil action film directed by s . dharani , starring silambarasan .
paiyaa ( boy ) is a 2010 indian tamil romantic action film written and directed by n . linguswamy .
rajan p dev ( 29 may 1951 – 29 july 2009 ) was an indian film and stage actor .
selva is an indian film actor who has worked on tamil - language films in leading and supporting roles .
sevagan is a 1992 tamil language crime film directed and produced by arjun sarja , making his directorial debut .
siddhartha is an 2015 indian kannada romantic film directed by prakash of milana fame and produced by parvathamma rajkumar .
sigappu rojakkal ( red roses ) is a 1978 indian tamil psychological thriller film starring kamal haasan and sridevi .
bhadrakali ( kali in fury ) is a 1976 tamil film starring sivakumar and rani chandra in the lead roles .
chaarulatha ( also spelled as charulatha ) is a 2012 indian horror film simultaneously made in kannada and tamil languages .
eli ( english : rat ) is a 2015 indian tamil spy comedy film written and directed by yuvaraj dhayalan .
genelia d ' souza ( born 5 august 1987 ) is an indian film actress , model , and host .
idam porul yaeval is an upcoming indian tamil drama film directed by seenu ramasamy and produced by n . lingusamy .
iravum pagalum varum ( night and day will come ) is a 2015 indian tamil film directed by bala sriram .
spi cinemas is an indian multiplex chain and film production company owned by the spi group , headquartered in chennai .
on may 10 , 2014 , a scuffle between two communities over construction of fence around well escalated into riots in meerut , uttar pradesh , a northern state of india as of may 11 , 3 people were killed and 50 injured , including a top police officer and two media persons .
vikram ( born as kennedy john victor on 17 april 1966 ) is an indian film actor who predominantly appears in tamil language films and has won six filmfare awards as well as one national film award and tamil nadu state film award amongst other recognitions and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the people ' s university of milan in may 2011 .
the cast of the film also includes nagabharana , suman , chikkanna , raju thalikote and honnavalli krishna in supporting roles . ramesh is the cinematographer , and d imam has done the music . the film will now undergo post - production .
anegan ( multiple single person ) is a 2015 indian tamil romantic thriller film directed by k . v . anand .
businessman , also known as the businessman , is a 2012 indian telugu crime film written and directed by puri jagannadh .
english : an autumn in london ( 2013 ) is a malayalam film written by ajayan venugopalan and directed by shyamaprasad .
kirumi ( germ ) is a 2015 tamil thriller film written , directed and edited by anucharan as his debut feature .
lailaa o lailaa ( abbreviated as lol ) is a 2015 malayalam language indian action - thriller film directed by joshiy .
nirnayam is a 2013 indian tamil drama film written and directed by srisaravanan and produced by music composer v . selvaganesh .
papanasam is a 2015 indian tamil thriller film directed by jeethu joseph and jointly produced by suresh balaje and rajkumar sethupathi .
pizza ( பீட்சா ) is a 2012 indian tamil suspense supernatural thriller film , written and directed by debutant karthik subbaraj .
rajadhi raja raja kulothunga raja marthanda raja gambeera kathavaraya krishna kamarajan is a 1993 tamil action film directed by balu anand .
thodarum is a tamil drama film directed by ramesh khanna featuring ajith kumar , devayani and heera in the leading roles .
the 11th chennai international film festival took place in chennai , tamil nadu , india from 12 to 19 december 2013 .
beautiful is a 2011 indian malayalam musical drama thriller film written by anoop menon and directed by v . k . prakash .
demonte colony is a 2015 indian tamil horror film written and directed by ajay gnanamuthu , featuring arulnithi in the lead role .
dhanushkodi is an unreleased malayalam - language indian feature film directed by priyadarshan , starring mohanlal and girija shettar in lead role .
double barrel , also called eratta kuzhal , is a 2015 malayalam gangster comedy film written and directed by lijo jose pellissery .
fireman is a 2015 malayalam thriller film directed by deepu karunakaran and produced by milan jaleel under the banner of galaxy films .
kalyana samayal saadham ( wedding feast ) is a 2013 indian tamil romantic - comedy film written and directed by rs prasanna .
gaddama ( ഗദ്ദാമ , خدامة , english translation : housemaid ) is a 2011 malayalam drama film co–written and directed by kamal .
love u alia ( ಲವ್ ಯು ಆಲಿಯಾ ) is a 2015 indian kannada romance drama film written and directed by indrajit lankesh .
shutter is a 2012 indian malayalam thriller film written and directed by theater actor and playwright joy mathew in his directorial debut .
srimanthudu ( wealthy man ) is a 2015 telugu drama film written and directed by koratala siva , under mythri movie makers .
thagaraaru ( bone of contention ) is a 2013 indian tamil film directed by ganesh vinaayac and produced by cloud nine movies .
forum for india - pacific islands cooperation ( fipic ) is a multinational grouping developed in 2014 for cooperation between india and 14 pacific islands nations which include cook islands , fiji , kiribati , marshall islands , micronesia , nauru , niue , samoa , solomon islands , palau , papua new guinea , tonga , tuvalu and vanuatu .
sukha gotte irlilla and eko higaithu . now , 25 years later , another kannada film with the same title is being made with
* ravichandran also has the reputation of introducing many actresses to kannada film industry including juhi chawla , khushbu , shilpa shetty etc .
ceylon ( inam in tamil ) is a 2013 indian war drama film written , directed , filmed and produced by santosh sivan .
chandralekha ( also spelt chandraleka ) is a 1948 indian tamil historical fiction film directed and produced by s . s . vasan .
en swasa kaatre ( my life breath ) is a 1999 tamil romantic film written and directed by k . s . ravi .
guru is a 2007 indian drama film loosely based on the life of dhirubhai ambani , a business magnate who founded reliance industries .
shruthi , known by her stage name hariprriya , is an indian film actress , model and bharatanatyam dancer from chikkaballapura , karnataka .
k . j . yesudas is a multilingual singer , singing indian classical music , devotional , light music , and film songs .
mahesh babu ( born mahesh ghattamaneni on 9 august 1975 ) is an indian film actor known for his work in telugu cinema .
penangunni is a 2013 malayalam 3d film directed by manoj chandrasekharan , starring child actors abhijith sanal and vaishnavi in the lead roles .
veerapandiya kattabomman ( kattabomman , the brave warrior ) is a 1959 indian tamil biographical film directed by b . r . panthulu .
the 13th asianet film awards honors the best films in 2010 and was held on 9 january 2011 at willingdon island in kochi .
uppi 2 ( titled upendra 2 in telugu ) is a 2015 indian psychological thriller film written , directed by and starring upendra in the lead role , and is a sequel to his 1999 film upendra , and was produced under his production company , upendra productions .
kwatle satisha is a comedy and is supposed to be a spoof based on ghajini . the film features sathish in the lead role .
achaaram is a 2015 tamil crime thriller film written and directed by mohan krishna , which stars ganesh venkatraman , munna and poonam kaur .
akshay kumar is an indian film actor and producer who made his debut with a minor role in the 1987 mahesh bhatt directed aaj .
ezhavathu manithan ( lit . the seventh man ) is a 1982 indian tamil film co - written and directed by k . hariharan .
maryan ( மரியான் mariyāņ ; the immortal ) is a 2013 indian tamil action thriller film directed by bharat bala starring dhanush alongside parvathi .
masterpiece ( stylized as master piece , ಮಾಸ್ಟರ್ ಪೀಸ್ ) is an upcoming indian kannada action thriller film written and directed by manju mandavya .
onaayum aattukkuttiyum ( the wolf and the lamb ) is a 2013 tamil drama - thriller film written , directed and produced by mysskin .
onna irukka kathukanum ( we must learn to live together ) is a 1992 tamil comedy - drama film directed by v . sekhar .
salt n ' pepper is a 2011 indian malayalam romantic comedy film directed by aashiq abu and produced for lucsam creations by sadanandan rangorath .
seniors is a 2011 malayalam comedy - mystery film directed by vyshakh , produced by vaishakh rajan , and written by sachi - sethu .
tamizhuku en ondrai azhuthavum ( also referred to as teoa ) is a 2015 tamil social thriller film written and directed by ramprakash rayappa .
thira ( english : wave ) is a 2013 indian malayalam thriller film directed by vineeth sreenivasan and scripted by his cousin rakesh mantodi .
uyarndha manithan ( the noble man ) is a 1968 indian tamil drama film written by javar seetharaman and directed by krishnan - panju .
vishal punjabi ( born 10 july 1980 ) is a ghanaian indian film director and producer who predominantly works in bollywood and hindi cinema .
amen is a 2013 malayalam - language indian romantic musical satire film written by p . s . rafeeque and directed by lijo jose pellissery .
anbe vaa ( come , my love ) is a 1966 indian tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by a . c . tirulokchandar .
arabikkatha ( malayalam : അറബിക്കഥ , an arabian tale ) is a 2007 malayalam language film directed by lal jose and written by ikbal kuttipuram .
chodhyam is an unreleased malayalam - language indian feature film directed by g . s . vijayan , starring rahman and rupini in lead roles .
kadal ( the sea ) is a 2013 indian tamil crime drama film co - written , co - produced and directed by mani ratnam .
mujibar rahman ( মুজিবর রহমান ; born 25 may 1973 ) is a notable documentary filmmaker and film producer based in kolkata , west bengal .
rasam ( english : taste ) is a 2015 malayalam - language indian feature film based on food , tastes , restaurants and catering services .
rathinirvedam is a 2011 malayalam coming - of - age film directed by t . k . rajeev kumar and starring shweta menon and sreejith .
the film starts as a comedy ( mostly aided by the dialogues ) and then turns to a drama and ends with the usual sentiment saga .
, which did not do as well at the box office . ninasam satish has had a recent hit with the success of the pawan kumar film
aachariyangal ( surprises ) is a 2012 tamil film directed by debutant director harshavardhan , starring thaman kumar , iyshwarya rajesh , reethu mangal and narayanan .
aila re odia pua ( ଆଇଲା ରେ ଓଡିଆ ପୁଅ ; here comes the oriya boy ) is a 2009 indian oriya film directed by vikash das .
bullet basya ( ಬುಲೆಟ್ ಬಸ್ಯ ) is a 2015 indian kannada comedy film directed by jayatheertha , and stars sharan and haripriya in the lead roles .
enthiran ( robot ) is a 2010 indian tamil science fiction film directed by s . shankar and co - written by him and sujatha rangarajan .
face to face is a 2012 malayalam mystery thriller film directed by v . m . vinu and starring mammootty , ragini dwivedi and roma asrani .
naduvula konjam pakkatha kaanom ( a few pages are missing in between ) is a 2012 indian tamil black comedy film directorial debut for balaji tharaneetharan .
parudeesa ( paradise ) is a 2012 malayalam–language indian feature film written by vinu abraham and directed by national award - winning filmmaker r . sarath .
ponmaalai pozhudhu ( golden evening hours ) is a 2013 indian tamil film directed by ac durai featuring aadhav kannadasan and gayathrie in the lead roles .
soodhu kavvum ( சூது கவ்வும் , english : evil engulfs ) is a 2013 tamil black comedy film directed by nalan kumarasamy of naalaya iyakunar fame .
thenmerku paruvakatru ( southwest monsoon தென்மேற்கு பருவகாற்று . ) is a 2010 tamil drama film written and directed by seenu ramasamy and produced by shibu issac .
vidiyum munn ( tamil : விடியும் முன் ; english : before dawn ) is a 2013 indian tamil thriller film directed by balaji k . kumar .
bhaskar the rascal is a 2015 malayalam comedy - family film written and directed by siddique featuring mammootty in the titular role and nayantara as the heroine .
chennai express ( pronunciation ) is a 2013 indian romantic action comedy film directed by rohit shetty , and produced by gauri khan for red chillies entertainment .
ezhamathe varavu ( english : seventh arrival ) is a 2013 malayalam drama thriller film written by m . t . vasudevan nair and directed by hariharan .
moodu pani ( the mist ) is a 1980 indian tamil thriller film written , directed and filmed by balu mahendra and produced by raja cine arts .
mudhalvan ( chief minister ) is a 1999 tamil language indian political thriller film co - written , directed and co - produced by s . shankar .
seethamma vakitlo sirimalle chettu ( the jasmine vine in seethamma ' s courtyard ) is a 2013 indian telugu drama film written and directed by srikanth addala .
unto the dusk ( malayalam : അസ്തമയം വരെ or asthamayam vare ) is a malayalam film directed by sajin baabu as his first feature project in malayalam .
dookudu ( aggression ) is a 2011 indian telugu action comedy film directed by srinu vaitla , featuring mahesh babu and samantha ruth prabhu in the lead roles .
kalimannu is a malayalam drama film written and directed by blessy and starring swetha menon in the lead role and biju menon , suhasini in major supporting roles .
mullum malarum ( thorn and flower or thorns also blossom ) is a 1978 indian tamil drama film directed by j . mahendran and produced by venu chettiar .
taapsee pannu ( born 1 august 1987 ) is an indian model and actress , who has worked in telugu , tamil , malayalam and hindi film industries .
and excellent music composed by isaignani ilaiyaraja from the hospital as he was recuperating having undergone hernia operation . the film is best remembered for its successful soundtrack scored by
bengal tiger is an upcoming telugu film written and directed by sampath nandi and produced by k . k . radha mohan under the banner sri satya sai arts .
massu engira masilamani ( masilamani alias mass ) , also known by its former title masss , is a 2015 tamil supernatural comedy thriller film directed by venkat prabhu .
teenkahon ( three obsessions ) is a 2015 mystery - drama bengali film directed by bauddhayan mukherji and produced by monalisa mukherji under the banner of little lamb films .
uttama villain ( english : the pure - hearted villain ) is a 2015 indian tamil comedy - drama film directed by ramesh aravind and written by kamal haasan .
vikram ( often credited chiyaan vikram ) is an indian film actor , producer , playback singer and former dubbing artiste known for his work in tamil language films .
1921 - ayirathi thollayirathi irupathi onnu is a 1988 indian historical war drama film directed by i . v . sasi , set during the mappila uprising of 1921 .
the film , which is set in a village , has been shot at ezhil ' s native place kayathur , near mayavaram and siva karthikeyan ' s thiruvizhimizhalai .
porkalathil oru poo is a film about based on the real life of isaipriya a television journalist raped and murdered by the sri lankan army during the final stages of the sri lankan civil war . it was refused clearance and banned by the censor board of india after it reviewed by its member s . ve . shekher on the grounds it would damage ties with sri lanka . the film makers have said they will legally challenge the ban . the music for the film is composed by ilaiyaraaja .
* ravichandran’s father n . veeraswamy was a well known film producer in kannada cinema industry who established sri eswari productions , today the production house is run by ravichandran .
aadhalal kadhal seiveer ( english : therefore , go ahead and love , tamil : ஆதலால் காதல் செய்வீர் ) is a 2013 indian tamil romantic drama film directed by suseenthiran .
anniyan ( english : outsider or stranger ) is a 2005 indian tamil psychological thriller film written and directed by shankar and produced by v . ravichandran of aascar films .
kiragoorina gayyaligalu ( ಕಿರಗೂರಿನ ಗಯ್ಯಾಳಿಗಳು ) is an upcoming indian kannada drama film directed by sumana kittur , based on a novella of the same name written by poornachandra tejaswi .
loham : the yellow metal or simply loham is a 2015 indian malayalam thriller film written and directed by ranjith , based on gold smuggling in the state of kerala .
magadheera ( great warrior ) is a 2009 indian telugu historical fiction film , written by k . v . vijayendra prasad and directed by s . s . rajamouli .
moondram pirai ( the crescent seen on the third day following new moon day ) is a 1982 indian tamil drama film written , directed and filmed by balu mahendra .
server sundaram ( waiter sundaram ) is a 1964 indian tamil comedy - drama film directed and co - produced by krishnan - panju with a . v . meiyappan .
thillana mohanambal ( the dance queen mohanambal ) is a 1968 indian tamil musical - drama film written , directed , distributed and produced by a . p . nagarajan .
yuvan shankar raja ( born 31 august 1979 ) is an indian singer - songwriter , film score and soundtrack composer , and occasional lyricist from chennai , tamil nadu .
kannada director rishab shetty talks about the ' dadda dadda ' song from his upcoming film , ' sarkari hi . pra . shaale , kasaragodu , koduge : ramanna rai '
. the film has suman , nagabharana , dattana , raju talikote and chikanna in the star cast . the shoot of the movie is extensively done in mandya district . d
kanchana 2 ( marketed as muni 3 : kanchana 2 ) is a 2015 tamil horror comedy film directed and written by raghava lawrence , who enacted dual role in it .
maattrraan ( the alternate ) is a 2012 tamil science fiction thriller film co - written and directed by k . v . anand and produced by kalpathi s . aghoram .
mohanlal viswanathan nair ( born 21 may 1960 ) better known as mohanlal is an indian actor , film producer and occasional singer best known for his work in malayalam films .