The Voice of Hind Rajab
Drama, History (Arabic)
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to (more…)
The Furious
Action, Crime (Mandarin)
After Wang Wei's daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wei sets out to find her himself. His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled (more…)
Nooru Sami
Drama, Family (Tamil)
Selvi, a widowed mother, devotes her life to raising her two sons in a conservative village. Years later, unfulfilled life comes back into focus, challenging deep-rooted traditions. As family and society strongly oppose change, Selvi must choose between societal expectations (more…)
Welcome to the Jungle
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Crime (Hindi)
A group of quirky characters gets stuck in a dangerous jungle during a chaotic mission. Filled with confusion, criminals, and hilarious situations, they must work together to survive and find their way out. (more…)
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Heartin
Comedy, Romance, Drama (Tamil)
Fate tosses a couple into an unexpected situation with an ex-girlfriend in the mix.
Cast:
Madonna Sebastian, Sananth, Emaya T, Whatsapp Mani, Debnita Kar, Pragathi Mahavadi, Uma Padmanabhan, Ajit Koshy, Mathew Varghese
Director:
Kishore kumar
Writer:
Kishore kumar
Mon, June 29 2026
Director Kishore Kumar's Heartin, starring Sananth, Madonna Sebastian and Emaya, is a romantic drama that explores modern relationships and second chances. The film took a formulaic approach and could have benefited from better performances from its women.
There was a time when romantic dramas offered a comforting escape, especially amid the flood of hypermasculine action thrillers dominating the screens. Over the years, however, the genre has evolved to reflect changing relationships and sensibilities. Director Kishore Kumar’s Heartin is one such attempt to tell a love story rooted in modern-day relationships. Shiva (Sananth) is the head chef and partner at a Jaipur restaurant owned by his close friend Mani (WhatsApp Mani) and Mani’s wife, Ankita. During a heritage walk, he crosses paths with Sadhana (Emaya). A series of charming meet-cutes blossoms into friendship, which eventually turns into love. Yet, even as their relationship deepens, Shiva remains emotionally guarded: he rarely smiles, carries a brooding aura, and initially hesitates when Sadhana confesses her feelings.
Con City
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy (Tamil)
Follows a struggling family whose lives change when a receipt printer starts generating money after a lightning strike, leading to public chaos when society discovers the money-making machine.
Cast:
Arjun Das, Anna Ben, Yogi Babu, Vadivukarasi, Thambi Ramaiah, Ramesh Thilak, Imman Annachi, Bharadwaj Rangan, Ponvannan, Madhan Kumar Dhakshinamoorthy
Director:
Harish Durairaj
Writer:
Harish Durairaj, Ubasakan, Sudhir Muthu, Harihara Tamilselvan, Gokul Sugumaran
Mon, June 29 2026
Director Harish Durairaj's Con City, starring Arjun Das, Anna Ben, Yogi Babu and Vadivukkarasi, is a film about a family that scams. While it's an interesting idea, the film gets pulled down by randomness.
Over the years, films centred on scams have found love among fans in Tamil cinema. From Sathuranga Vettai to Doctor to Lucky Baskhar to Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal, several such films have remained favourites with fans. This week, Arjun Das, Anna Ben, Yogi Babu and Vadivukkarasi are exploring this genre with director Harish Durairaj’s Con City. Did they succeed? Let’s find out! Saravanan (Arjun Das) and his wife, Mithra (Anna Ben), run a humble mess in Mangalore. They are the parents of a young, physically challenged Jeeva (Akilan) and live with Mithra’s brother, Jackie (Yogi Babu), and Janaki (Vadivukkarasi). We are shown that Saravanan and Mithra are not on talking terms, but they continue to co-parent their kid. One day, Jeeva goes missing from school, and a look at the CCTV video reveals a dark secret that unravels everyone’s backstory and how they found each other.
Mon, June 29 2026
Harish Durairaj marshals a decent found-family comedy that is hobbled in the home stretch by a middling con job
The best parts of Con City are when it tries, quite successfully, to be a found family film. It has a gentle pace and takes its time to introduce us to its lead characters and the complex manner which they come to meet one another. If Saravanan (Arjun Das) and Mithra (Anna Ben) are pushed into a life of crime as a result of their respective predicaments, the mother-son duo of Janaki (Vadivukarasi) and Jackie (Yogi Babu) are who they are simply because they want to get rich and make a movie. There’s no overt moralism in them and the fact that they all know this about themselves, makes them a family we feel like rooting for. More than their need to stick together to remain free, we feel that it’s this lack of morality that has somehow kept them together.
Welcome to the Jungle
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Crime (Hindi)
A group of quirky characters gets stuck in a dangerous jungle during a chaotic mission. Filled with confusion, criminals, and hilarious situations, they must work together to survive and find their way out.
Cast:
Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Jacqueline Fernandez, Disha Patani, Raveena Tandon, Jackie Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Lara Dutta, Farida Jalal
Director:
Ahmed Khan
Writer:
Farhad Samji
Mon, June 29 2026
A promising satirical premise buried beneath bloated storytelling, shrill humour, uneven performances, and exhausting excess, resulting in a deeply disappointing cinematic experience.
Reality, on rare occasions, possesses an uncanny habit of imitating fiction—not deliberately, but with an irony so exquisite that it borders on poetic justice. One suspects that director Ahmed Khan had little inkling that his latest spectacle, Welcome to the Jungle, would ultimately become the most eloquent metaphor for its own creative bankruptcy. Conceived as a madcap satire on the film industry and the absurd economics of blockbuster filmmaking, the film instead collapses under the crushing weight of the very mediocrity it seeks to lampoon. The result is not a parody of commercial cinema but an inadvertent specimen of everything that has gone catastrophically wrong with it.
Sun, June 28 2026
The basic premise of Welcome To The Jungle instantly reminds you of Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan (2010), which also starred Akshay Kumar in the lead. The main difference is that he played the director in that movie. But the difference that matters the most is that WTTJ is better than the 2010 flick, although the latter had its moments here and there. It is anybody’s guess that one needs to keep logic and reasoning miles away while watching such movies. But this is worth only when we get non-stop entertainment in return. That is what happens with Welcome To The Jungle. The basic plot of a wealthy business wanting to make a flop film itself is funny and interesting. It is also something that used to happen during the olden days. The screenplay gives you no time to breathe. There are plenty of bizarre happenings, both during the film shoot and the second half when the terrorism angle takes over. But, again, the fast pace and the fact that the film is honest in what it is trying to do ensures that you don’t mind that much.
Sat, June 27 2026
The third instalment in the Welcome franchise is called Welcome to the Jungle—but it is so mangled that it will make you yearn for some semblance of sanity. There is nothing wrong with lightweight, silly comedies, but there is a thin line between being delightfully goofy and descending into complete absurdity. Forget crossing that line—director Ahmed Khan’s film starts there, ends there, and keeps you trapped there for nearly three hours.
The Bear S05
Drama, Comedy (English)
Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
Cast:
Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Abby Elliott, Matty Matheson, Liza Colón-Zayas, Edwin Lee Gibson
Mon, June 29 2026
Created by Christopher Storer, The Bear goes out on a high after a couple of bumpy middle seasons.
It’s a changing of the guard at The Bear in the fifth and final season of the FX series created by Christopher Storer. After four years and five incredible seasons, The Bear finally bids adieu and moves ahead in a way that only it can. Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri have gotten us so invested in these characters, along with its large ensemble cast, and the show does a great job of wrapping it all up in a satisfactory manner. Moreover, the Emmy-winning series stays away from the mistakes of the past seasons as it closes the lights out on the restaurant while staying true to its core premise.
House of the Dragon S03
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure (English)
The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.
Cast:
Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Harry Collett
Mon, June 29 2026
The Game of Thrones spinoff series is back for its third season, which finally depicts the infamous Battle of the Gullet on the high seas.
It’s time once again to align yourself with Team Black or Team Green. The matter of the Iron Throne is still not settled, as the Targaryen clan is split on who the rightful heir is. Based on George RR Martin’s Fire & Ice book series, the HBO spinoff series House of the Dragon is set two centuries before Game of Thrones. In the third season, the hemming and hawing has stopped as the civil war arrives right at the doorstep for both Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), who were once friends. As the third season opens, they’ve made an unlikely arrangement; it remains to be seen how it holds as a bloody sea battle erupts and the first body falls by the end of the first episode.
The Furious
Action, Crime (Mandarin)
After Wang Wei's daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wei sets out to find her himself. His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo ruthlessly battle the kidnappers in this explosive martial arts showdown.
Cast:
Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Yayan Ruhian, JeeJa Yanin, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Manatsanun Panlertwongskul, Kittiphoom Wongpentak
Director:
Kenji Tanigaki
Sun, June 28 2026
Kenji Tanigaki, Kensuke Sonomura and a scintillating cast deliver wave after wave of relentless, innovative action
Navin and Wang Wei start off with an action film’s version of a meet-cute: a misunderstanding and a fight. They don’t yet know they have a common purpose, or that they’ve been battling the same crime boss’s thugs. As they face off, barely any words are exchanged—Wei is mute—but there’s a conversation unfolding nevertheless, between Xie Miao’s wushu and Joe Taslim’s judo. Since the former is founded on kicking and striking, and the latter on grappling and throwing, it’s an intensely strategic altercation. In judo, if you can grab hold of an opponent, you can throw them. Wei realises this, shrugs off his jacket and rolls up his shirtsleeves. Navin reacts to this by ruefully blowing on his fingers, a judoka automatism from an actor who once represented his country in the sport.
Fri, June 19 2026
The superbly choreographed action scenes are staged everywhere from the backside of a pickup truck to an ice factory to a wrestling venue to even under sliding desks at a police station.
Hell hath no fury like a father scorned in The Furious – certainly not fury as taut, economical and razor-sharp as this film. Presumably, hell also involves a lot more chit-chat. The Furious dispenses with dialogue too; why waste your breath when you will need every ounce for the next tackle? A much-celebrated action choreographer, director Kenji Tanigaki knows that all he needs is a skeletal story with an emotional tug (in this case, kidnapped children) to set his two action stars, Miao Xe as Wang, and Joe Taslim as Navin, on a mission. Once that machine starts, it barely takes a pause.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Drama, History (Arabic)
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
Cast:
Hind Rajab, Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Nesbat Serhan, Ramy Brahem
Director:
Kaouther Ben Hania
Writer:
Kaouther Ben Hania
Sat, June 27 2026
Few films are as devastating as Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated and highly acclaimed The Voice of Hind Rajab — and that is partly because few stories are as tragic and gut-wrenching as this one. The film was held up by India’s censor board before finally releasing here, despite containing no onscreen violence — zero, zilch.
Mon, June 22 2026
Based on an actual incident that took place in January 2024, The Voice of Hind Rajab bares open the atrocities that have ravaged Palestine due to the war. The docu-drama uses actual audio recordings of the five year old Hind Rajab, which makes the film all the more authentic and raw.
There is a certain uneasiness inside you after you finish watching the Voice of Hind Rajab. The voice of five-year-old Hind Rajab, or Hanood as she was called fondly, continues to echo in your ears hours after the film is over. Directed by Kaouther Ben Henia, the docu-feature blends reality and fiction to deliver a heartwrenching account of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab and her urgent pleas on calls to Red Crescent volunteers to rescue her after her family was ambushed by the Israeli forces in January 2024. The Voice Of Hind Rajab is a film that is a testament to the times we live in. And while the semi-fictional semi-real film makes you uncomfortable, angry, emotional and ultimately numb, it is an important watch.
Sat, June 20 2026
“The tank is next to me.” “They are shooting at me.” “Come get me. I’m all on my own.” Few films begin with lines this freighted with irrevocability. The Voice of Hind Rajab confronts us with the real voice of a five-year-old girl whose fate is already known, stripping cinema of suspense and replacing it with something far more devastating: certainty. If urgency in the narrative holds it together as a piece of cinema, it is inevitability that makes director Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama an impossibly heartbreaking affair. The film is set inside the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s call centre in Ramallah on January 29, 2024. As the war between Israel and Palestine rages on, employees operate in a heightened emotional state, trained to respond to civilian SOS calls amid constant crisis. Omar (Motaz Malhees), Rana (Saja Kilani), Mahdi (Amer Hlehel), and Nisrine (Clara Khoury), the fictional leads, along with the late Hind Rajab’s real voice on a phone call, have guts of steel, but their hearts ache too, as do those of the viewers.
Supergirl
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction (English)
When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.
Cast:
Milly Alcock, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Momoa, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet, Ferdinand Kingsley, Emily Piggford, Thalissa Teixeira
Director:
Craig Gillespie
Writer:
Ana Nogueira
Sat, June 27 2026
Milly Alcock hits the right notes without trying too hard, and co-writer-director Craig Gillespie allows her to do that by keeping Supergirl unweighted by the burden of too many expectations.
In the DC Comics and Cinematic universe, Supergirl is a minor star – and pointedly still a “girl” when cousin Clark Kent, not much older, has always been a “Super-man”. Put that behind you. If not the stratosphere, Milly Alcock definitely hits escape velocity, breaking free of the gravity of Supergirl’s famous kin to seal her place in the firmament. The breakout House of the Dragons actor, who also got noticed for her comic skills in Upright, is a winsome combination of the two here as a superhero who, at least initially, would rather be drunk senseless than do the whole saviour routine.
Fri, June 26 2026
Despite some inspired moments and Alcock’s engaging performance, the film lacks cohesion and falls short of its potential.
Supergirl is more in the zone of a girl-power film than a superhero flick. Director Craig Gillespie’s new outing is the sophomore instalment in the newest iteration of a superhero-movie universe (DCU), starring Mily Alcock in the titular role. Supergirl, however, isn’t technically ‘Supergirl’ until way into the film, supremely coming into her own in the climactic battle scene. For most of this 108-minute film, she is Kara Zor-El, a not-so-regular girl who wants to drown the sorrows of her 23rd birthday by bar-hopping across the universe, specifically near red suns, which is something that makes her “normal” and not the superhero she is/ supposed to be. Also, unlike her cousin Superman — David Corenswet pops up every now and then — she doesn’t want to get into the business of helping anyone. In other words, she can’t be bothered with being a superhero, even when her more famous (and far more responsible) cuz tries his best — via video messages — to keep reminding her of her DNA (and her larger goal).
Fri, June 26 2026
A decent but uneven start for DC's cosmic heroine, Milly Alcock impresses, but weak action and half-baked themes keep Supergirl from truly taking flight
Superhero films have become synonymous with worldbuilding, and any film in the genre that does less — fewer interwoven narratives, callbacks, and inside jokes — tends to feel odd (this is more a critique of the trend than the films themselves). Maybe that’s why James Gunn’s reimagined DC Universe continues its existential struggle, because Superman (2025) and the latest release, Supergirl (2026), are less about being pieces of a larger puzzle. That means these films don’t have an easy way out and have to be self-sufficient. That’s both the boon and bane of director Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl — it is indeed a story- and character-driven movie, but it lacks the punch and fails to be the event superhero films have habituated us to till now.
The Agency S02
Drama, Mystery (English)
Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
Cast:
Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, Harriet Sansom Harris, John Magaro, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Andrew Brooke, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, India Fowler
Sat, June 27 2026
As ‘The Agency’ enters the second season, we are once again led into a captivating terrain where suspense remains thick, tension-fraught moments abound
It’s a web of lies, deceit, betrayals and fierce emotions too. The CIA agent codenamed Martian (Michael Fassbender) might write in his journal for his daughter, “We are taught that emotions are not the truth”, but the star-studded espionage thriller has as strong an emotional core as the fascinating spy games. The title track ‘Love Is Blindness’, performed by Jack White, conveys the emotional minefield of its characters led by Martian. As ‘The Agency’ enters the second season, we are once again led into a captivating terrain where suspense remains thick, tension-fraught moments abound. Operations are in full swing. John Magaro’s Owen is being prepared for a very dangerous mission. To trap Viking, a mercenary within the Russian-backed organisation Valhalla, he befriends a female nurse Robyn, sister of the man the CIA wants at all costs.
Gram Chikitsalay S02
Comedy, Drama (Hindi)
The young, idealistic and brilliant Dr. Prabhat, takes charge of a neglected Primary Health Centre in a North India Village hoping to bring about much needed changes only to realise it is he who will have do change before anything else.
Cast:
Amol Parashar, Anandeshwar Dwivedi, Akash Makhija, Garima Vikrant Singh, Vinay Pathak, Akansha Ranjan Kapoor
Director:
Lalitam Anand
Fri, June 26 2026
Amol Parasher has grown into his role, and while he shares the screen with everyone else, it is his Prabhat, refusing to give in, and give up, which is the fulcrum.
Season 2 of this rural-com returns with its low stakes, lo-fi storytelling, in which the TVF mandate– keep it cosy, bro– stays comfortably uppermost. No surprises then that our idealistic doctor stays the course, even as the clashes between the twain– the citified outsider and the set-in-their-ways villagers– continue. Also back in harness are his little unit of compounder, nurse and helpers, the colleague-turning-into-friendly-companion, the rival local quack, and the gaonwalas themselves, slowly if reluctantly, understanding the value of a real ‘daaktar saab’ who can actually save lives.
Fri, June 26 2026
Season 2 of 'Gram Chikitsalay' continues to reimagine 'Panchayat' in a rural-healthcare context, and continues to be middling in its returns
With Panchayat going downhill, you’d think Gram Chikitsalay would be looking to forge its own identity after acting like a stalker in its first season. But the essence of “TVF Rural Universe” goes beyond the template of an idealistic urban character arriving to work in a ramshackle village full of idiosyncratic residents, aggressively colourful dialects, mundane conflicts and backward mindsets. The shared formula is more of an excuse to make the same series twice over. It’s a bit like watching a famous South Indian director making his Bollywood debut by remaking — or culturally adapting — his biggest hit. The remake always looks more rehearsed, functional, designed, and bereft of spontaneity.
Ananthan Kaadu
Action, Thriller (Malayalam)
This is a tale, which almost became a true story. It unfolds in the late Eighties and early Nineties, when the country was going through a dark phase both politically and socially a time when turmoil was writ all over the political scape of the nation.
Cast:
Arya, Nikhila Vimal, Regina Cassandra, Vijayaraghavan, Achyuth Kumar, Indrans, Siddique, Santhy Balachandran, Murali Gopy, Sunil Varma
Director:
Jiyen Krishnakumar
Writer:
Murali Gopy
Fri, June 26 2026
The filmmaker and the screenwriter seem to have taken the period setting of the film in the early 1990s a little too seriously, for the writing and making have a visible hangover of that era
One of the highly charged sequences in Ananthan Kaadu, directed by Jiyen Krishnakumar and written by Murali Gopy, happens inside a college campus in Thiruvananthapuram in the early 1990s. This “mass” scene featuring the screenwriter himself in a highly imaginary scenario, hardly has any connection with the main plot, almost as if it accidentally got mixed into this film from the edits of some other film. Its only intention appears to be to inject some regressive political points into the narrative. This particular sequence might not be surprising for those who have watched Tiyaan (2017), the previous team-up of Jiyen Krishnakumar and Murali Gopy, which had its share of regressive politics packaged in the garb of a progressive film.
Thu, June 25 2026
Director Jiyen Krishnakumar's Ananthan Kaadu, starring Arya, Murali Gopy, Indrans and Vijayaraghavan, is a story about how the system neverlets you win. The film has an interesting backdrop, but fails to achieve a cohesive story.
Ananthan Kaadu takes us back to the Sri Lankan civil war, when several crores of people were beaten, killed and raped. The initial stretches, featuring rebel group leader Vetri (Arya) and his gang being ambushed by the Sri Lankan Army, show officers behaving like sexual predators and killing machines. Right when you gear up for a film on one of the darkest chapters in Sri Lankan history, it turns into a formulaic revenge thriller. In 1989, during the Sri Lankan war, Vetri (Arya) loses his family and escapes to Kerala seeking a life where his identity is hidden. Krishnan Kutty (Indrans) and his team take him in. The group, which works as mercenaries for Kerala Chief Minister KK Menon (Vijayaraghavan), also run a music troupe as a cover.
Nooru Sami
Drama, Family (Tamil)
Selvi, a widowed mother, devotes her life to raising her two sons in a conservative village. Years later, unfulfilled life comes back into focus, challenging deep-rooted traditions. As family and society strongly oppose change, Selvi must choose between societal expectations and her own happiness.
Cast:
Swasika, Vijay Antony, Lijomol Jose, Ajay Dhisan, Kavya Anil, Karunas, Sakthi Raj, Balaji Sakthivel, Padine Kumar, Aruldoss
Director:
Sasi
Writer:
Sasi
Tue, June 23 2026
Sat, June 20 2026
Director Sasi's Nooru Sami, starring Swasika, Ajay Dhishan and Vijay Antony, is a well-intentioned drama that explores remarriage. While the story great potential, it has many shortcomings in terms of its presentation.
Director Sasi and actor-composer Vijay Antony reunited for Nooru Sami, 10 years after Pichaikkaran, a film that ended up as a sleeper hit for the actor. Pichaikkaran is an emotional drama about a mother and son, while Nooru Sami explores the concept of remarriage for a widow in a conservative world. Selvi (Swasika), a widowed mother, raises her two sons Bhaskar (Ajay Dhishan) and Vivek (Sakthi) on her own. She watches them come up in their lives only for them to be consumed by ego and hating each other. One day, Selvi, in passing, mentions that she might like to remarry, much to the shock of her two sons.
Sat, June 20 2026
Led by a brilliant Swasika, Sasi’s ‘Nooru Sami’ is a moving portrait of a woman reclaiming her desires, dignity, and right to a life of her own.
Life in the hinterland can be brutal. Identities are distinctly carved out between the haves and the have-nots — the “have” here can refer to material wealth or social standing. In director Sasi’s Nooru Sami (A Hundred Gods), Selvi (a fabulous Swasika) is a young widow with two sons, struggling to raise them in a society that is judgmental and not very kind. Sasi is known for his deft portrayal of village life and its people, and Nooru Sami, based on a real-life story, benefits from his vision. It is filled with little nuggets, some pleasant, most not, which drive home the torment in Selvi’s heart.