Silver Screen Sleuth

Knives out is a Hollywood movie produced by Ram Bergman and written and directed by Rian Johnson. It has a stellar cast of Daniel Craig, Ana De Armas, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Katherine Langford and many more. The movie was inspired from Agatha Christie’s works and was developed around mid-2000s. It has been 5 years since its release and the third instalment for the film was announced recently. So let us take a look back at this visually appealing and brain-racking movie. The movie is set in Massachusetts, USA and revolves around a wealthy murder mystery writer Harlan Thrombey and his mysterious death and Benoit Blanc who comes to investigate his death. Now that a premise is set, lets dissect the aspects of the movie and analyse it. Plot and Storyline:   The movie follows the classic plotline of whodunit which is intertwined with mystery and social commentary and to lighten the mood, well placed comedy. The movie has plot twists till the very end of the movie but it’s not tha...

The movie is the directorial debut of Prashant Neel and is the movie that changed the trajectory of the Kannada film industry. The movie is an action packed thriller that dives deep into the underworld in rural Karnataka. The movie was released in 2014, along with changing how India saw the Kannada film industry. The movie also bought back Sri Murali as a household name.  The movie had an intense and raw storytelling and performances. The movie was later remade with a few script enhancements and more budgets into Saalar - The ceasefire. The storyline of both the movies are almost the same but a few characters were removed, some were added and the amount of SFX and VFX had increased substantially. Talking about Ugramm, there are few positives and negatives to the movie. Discussing the positives, they are -  1. The movie has an amazing narrative structure and it absolutely grips its viewers with its intensity. The character Agastya, played by Sri Murali, is a guy who is hiding f...