unni on December 21st, 2006

Director Ranjith was supposed to do a film with Mammotty some time back. Unfortunately the “stars” forecast that Ranjith’s time was bad and that the movie may be a flop. Anwar Rashid took over from Ranjith and with Mammotty created Rajamanikkyam, a behemoth hit in Malayalam cinema.Ranjith later teamed with Mammotty for Prajapathy.Prajapathy as per [...]

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vc on December 20th, 2006

With the movie Notebook, Rosshan Andrews is swimming against the tide. The movie has newcomers acting in it. It is also a big budget movie. For a moment you have to rub your eyes in disbelief to see if it really a Malayalam movie we are talking about. Suraj, Pooja, Sree Devi, Saira, Firoz and [...]

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vc on December 19th, 2006

Baba Kalyani draws mixed reviews, opinions range from terrible to satifying. Reviews give low marks to S N Swami’s lacklustre screenplay. It has to be seen if Mohanlal’sbad luck with Police Costumes will end with this movie. Sify writes Despite all that pre-release positive hype and hoopla, Mohanlal’s Baba Kalyani leaves you cold. There is [...]

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vc on December 18th, 2006

If there is a director in Malayalam who has the most burden of expectations, it’s Blessy. After blazing a glorious trail with Kazhcha and Tanmatra, people expect the world from Blessy. This time he pairs up with the hero of his first movie Mammootty again. (Sorry Dileep, you will have to wait) Monichan, played by [...]

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vc on December 14th, 2006

Dear Ranjith, You were an impressive film maker. You wrote that wonderful comedy called Peruvannapurathe Viseshangal, and also that classic called Devasuram. You directed Nandanam, which was so different, but a great movie as well. So when we watched Chandrolsavam, we were hoping for something different and exciting, but instead you gave us a rehash [...]

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vc on December 13th, 2006

At some point we thought, we should not make fun of geriatric actors for they are only doing their constitutionally mandated job of entertaining us. Then, they come up with some real howlers that we can’t keep our hands off the keyboard. The issue at hand is not new and we have been discussing this [...]

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unni on December 11th, 2006

An actor can be called complete if he portrays all kind of roles. Dileep who has given us some good films with his next-door-boy image, has of late been wanting to be a complete actor rather than being unfairly termed as a mimicry artist. So he turned to – who else – but our own [...]

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