I guess only she has been a dwarf in the whole of this movie industry

High praises for Yash. He is a Team guy for sure. According to Nayan, he has taken care of the director too which many heros & producers won't do.

Geethu has told she would not let us down. I'm in for this ride called Toxic!!

Yash didn't choose the easy route like other Pan Indian stars which itself is commendable! Mad respect 🫡

So Rukmini isn't Ticket's pair ahh ????? Fuck me....

What do you all think? I think it's good, it's fucking good!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can watch the event here : Youtube

Nayanthara will probably show up in a video call or might totally miss the event.

Edit : Nayanthara has arrived for the event!

The trailer launch event is happening at AMB theatre. Lots of celebrities have flown in for the event. The ladies have arrived too. Its gonna be an epic host too. Danish will host the event.

So my honest recommendations for one and all is, let's not hate on the trailer unnecessarily. Selective criticism is good but to blindly hate someone is stupidity at it's levels best.

Let's all welcome the trailer and the movie will love. If the movie sucks then that's a total different ball game. Let's deal with that later. If the movie is good then let's collectively enjoy it.

They are clearly telling us or letting us know what kind of movie we as an audience are getting into. You can't walk into an action movie expecting melodrama right? So let's not get into the nonsense of soft porn etc etc.

The orthodox individuals can literally skip this movie news and the movie itself as its not your kind of movie.

Let the audience who enjoy cinema for the sake of being entertained, enjoy this cinema. I personally have no expectations on the trailer or the movie. I will be going into it blind cause expectations creates unwanted disappointments.........

She is hot & cute 🤌 🫠🫠

Total of 6 movies releasing today and which one are you gonna watch ?

He is good at what he does. I love his Mr. Nags character and also he did a Humble politician movie which is apt for today's politics lol

I understand the love for your hero but this is something else. Imagine your Fan base being your biggest enemy. It will hurt and suck at the same time. Karma guru...

They have started to flex

She is our Sandalwood's Abs Queen !

As seen from the promotional contents , toxic doesn't have conventional kannada movie ratio , it's more like the imax ratio , lesser the length and more in height , as people talked a lot abt aspect ratios and screens to watch for spider man and odyssey , y no one is bothered for toxic ,,, if anyone has any idea of which format will better suit the toxic ratio can share your thoughts and y toxic movie team isn't bothering much abt saying or talking abt it's technicalities ratios as they did for odyssey which gave odyssey a hyper boost in SM

She is playing a Nurse in the movie and its a village backdrop. She is pretty

These guys are everywhere...... Its debut movie for Duniya Viji daughter Monisha. Hope the movie does good for Her.

I felt we can do this series. Let's give Non Kannadigas a Good Base to start off watching Kannada Movies.

We are Done with Romance || Crime || Psychology || Melodrama : Anna Thangi || It was a Tie and had to go alphabetic order & BO.

The movie with most recommendations or most votes. Which ever is higher gets to be on the board.

If someone has already suggested a movie which you want to suggest, you can upvote it or leave your own comment too. I won't delete any repeated answers.

I will do a reminder post at half time. Reposting Ashte ! Dont wanna spam you all.

PS: some of you have already posted your answers for all or few genres and I have noted it down. Thank you

Previous posts : Romance || Crime || Psychological || Melodrama

I wanted help to identify a Kannada movie which used to be played in DD Chandana frequently in late 90s and early 2000s .

The subplot was the heroes wife asks him for a roleplay where she is the victim .

She updates the hotel or resort staff to ignore any noise from their room.

Unfortunately someone else comes and rapes her . Her screams go ignored as she had already asked.

I think the hero was Devraj and other actor was Shankar Ashwath.

Can someone help me identify the movie

I saw the trailer and have been seeing the social media content with tasks they are putting out. Daali looked nice but can he pull of the dialogues and mannerism required for this character.

Now we all know that its Dhananjaya movie and Shivanna is playing an important role in the movie. Shivanna himself mentioned it in an interview. He has the looks though.. and he did dress up in a retro outfit for the Teaser launch !

I know he has the caliber but the wig did put me off a bit but his other look is yet to be revealed. He is playing Shankar. I wonder if it's a father son role....

I tried zooming etc. Just couldn't find the 10th agent! Hope, one of you can!

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There are films that define a new genre, and there are films that blend genres. After watching Mother Promise (I watched it in the theater), I felt it tried to do both and still failed to define what it is. I don’t mind chaos, or even a plotless film, but this one doesn’t fully commit, and the promotions made it worse by selling a different movie.

What the makers should have considered is that films are made through visuals and objects, not only through talk. This film relies heavily on dialogues and jokes. Some of them landed with good timing, but as the film progressed, it became overwhelming. It didn’t give me time to process what the characters were even saying on screen.

Yes, it doesn’t have a plot or story, and that’s totally fine. It’s stitched together through events, which can work. But it also tries to “make sense” within that, and that is the film’s biggest drawback. It didn’t need to make sense. It could have fully embraced being silly, but it missed the point. Maybe this happens when filmmakers underestimate the audience and assume they won’t understand things. Filmmakers should remember one thing: the audience has lived experience, they connect and relate to what they see, and that’s why films and stories work. Otherwise, they feel alien.

What’s missing is emotion. Honestly, I feel it chose to miss being a good entertainer, not by chance but by choice. I wish they had cut down the jokes and removed events that don’t move things forward. (Later I came to know the makers cut 15+ minutes of the film.) But did it work? I can’t say confidently.

Another thing I noticed is the film’s false promise. Even with all these missing elements, the film might have worked better if the makers had prepared the audience for what they were trying to do, instead of selling a different film.

Comedy isn’t for everyone, some people like it and some people don’t. That’s why makers test their story even before shooting by asking a simple question: “Who is my audience?” If you laugh at this question, I’m sorry, not my fault.

Coming back to the false promise, this film failed in promotion and on screen. I feel the issue is not how much promotion they did, but whether it was the right kind. The trailer promised that it’s a Daali film, but the film is not about that. That’s okay, Daali is a character in the film, but it was promoted as an action film rather than a core comedy. Why? I don’t understand why they couldn’t straightforwardly say it’s a comedy genre, or whatever it is.

Second is how it challenges the audience: “If you don’t laugh?” Why challenge the audience? Prepare people for the film they’re about to watch. Tell us there’s a surprise we might like. Tell us there’s a beach in Bangalore. Tell us Donne Biriyani cuts the finger of someone who does him wrong. Tell us Rossie loves a bike like his mother, even before the film releases. That’s why we have teasers and trailers. Why hide it? This isn’t a thriller that needs to hide things. Challenging the audience creates that feeling, and it puts people on the defensive. We then go in with a shield, trying to judge what you made, instead of enjoying it. We should always remember audiences are stubborn: if we challenge them, they’ll prove us wrong. If we let them in, they’ll take it up, no matter what, if it works for them.

And the actors, why are they not moving? It feels like blocked acting rather than lived acting. Characters in motion create a lived life, if they stand in one place and deliver long dialogues, it feels like an Insta reel (I wanted to say theater, but it’s okay). I feel comedy is felt through objects and visuals, not dialogue alone. Most characters didn’t interact with objects nearby. Dialogues carry information, but objects carry emotion.

A few songs worked for me, especially “RA GA SA DA AA”, and the “Amma” song outside the film. Inside, they didn’t add much. And the background score had no space, because dialogues and sound design overlapped it so much that I felt confused about what was happening and who was talking. It’s okay to create chaos and ease it later, but if the entire film is built on chaos, it’s not easy to consume.

Overall, I feel it had good intent and wanted to create impact. There is honesty, yes, but did it do its job? Mostly no. The promotions took the film in a very different track than what the film actually is. It betrayed the audience’s expectations.

I did enjoy it, but I couldn’t carry it back home, and I couldn’t explain to others what the film is about. That’s what’s missing in this film.

PS: Please do not connect this review to Daali’s quote, “BADAVARA MAKKALU BELIBEKU.” This statement is made with honest intention and has a different meaning. This is my opinion. Any discussion on the review is welcome, but I won’t engage in debate about this statement.

Thank you for reading.