SYNCCINEMA

P utham Pudhu Kaalai - While all the 5 stories make us feel warm and relevant, it's undoubtedly Karthik Subbaraj's Miracle which leaves a lasting impression and a happily bid goodbye. The year 2020 has been getting crazier, stranger and unforeseen day by day. Who would’ve thought Tamil Cinema’s finest Auteur’s, known for their rising and/or unique voices are roped in to make a 25min shorts which culminate into an   Anthology . The review will comment on each short film as a sole and at the end, overall. Ilamai Idho Idho - Directed by Sudha Kongara The long-lasting impression of Love beyond every strata and stigma, where, as   Madhavan  ( in the most meta-state presence) narrates, that it’s more of how it makes each feel that’s important than anything. There are a playful joy and cheerfulness in the fantasy or the idea of Sudha Kongara's most  class over crass  story ever, in shifting back and forth from an Objective and more externalised point of view of a...

N ishabdham – The muted condemnation of Sakshi  transcends into the Cinematic Intellect ofthe filmmakers. In the opening scene of  Nishabdham , you get a couple having their sweetest times in their  old mansion® dancing  to the music on a gramophone, Enter: a screen card saying 1972, which though isn’t needed as the scene is shot in richness of cliché with a dulled browns and blacks. Enter: a series of POV shots, door squeaks, light bulb flickers, husky whispers – which I think is the voice of  Ghost© and  the couple goes haywire. The husband is made to play hide ’n seek with the Ghost(s) - another clichéd game   in a dark basement. Enter: A collection of .mp3 extension files of jump scares, cheap thrill sound effects and a frightening enough setting to make me stop and go for a pee. Enter: A shrill note of ghost voices with increasing sound levels and then !! a  blackout.  We get the titles Nishabdham – aptly given as these jump cut abrupt...