The painting on the left is Raja Ravi Varma’s Damayanti and the Swan. The image on the right is from a song in the movie Ananthabhadram. The song, Pinakkamano was based on the paintings of Ravi Varma.
This year Ravi Varma has been in the news in both movies and archaeology. Two Italian curators Enrico Castelli [...]
Few years back there was great hope in malayalam film industry with quite a number of young actors debuting. Many of us thought that era of Mammootty and Mohanlal (super stars) are over and a new dawn for malayalam cinema is around the corner with the infusion of young talent. If one had harbored such [...]
Actor CI Paul, died on Dec 15, due to heart failure.
His silver screen break came with ‘Maadatharuvi’ in which he played the role of Fr Benedict. He acted in around 300 films and several TV serials since then. Paul, who started out as a character actor proved that he could handle comedy and villain [...]
Baradwaj Rangan gives his awards to people and movies from 2005. Here are some excerpts from the Malayalam section.
Producer’s Darling of the Year: Awarded to Mammooty. The man just can’t stop giving hits — Rajamanickam, Thommanum Makkalum, Nerariyan CBI, Thaskaraveran…
Person Most in Need of an Audience Verdict: Awarded to Mohanlal. He had two hits (Udayananu [...]
Director Blessy made his debut with the film Kaazcha starring Mammotty. Though the film had some excellent songs, we could not bear the film and had to quit midway. Now his second film Tanmatra starring Mohanlal is out and the verdict is not that great.
The simplicity of narration may surprise you and the languorous pace [...]
When Amitabh Bachchan was young, he used to be a one man act in his movies, even though the movie had other actors. He could do action, comedy, dance and drama all in the same movie. In his movies heroines would appear for the mandatory song scenes and vanish.
The same is true about Rajnikanth, Vijaykanth, [...]
For a director who had lifted copying into an art form, this interview reeks arrogance.
It was first used for the film Boeing Boeing, made in the 60s. It’s a 45-year old film and, after 25 years, there is no copyright in the world.
Priyadarshan has copied many movies which are less than 25 years old. For [...]
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