Take a look at the cast of this film Roudram’ also features a host of stars including Sai Kumar, Vijayaraghavan, Subair, Lalu Alex, Rajan P Dev, Shammi Thilakan, Sphadikom George, Urmila Unni and Sona. Sai Kumar is Sethu, a high profile businessman with a sporting new look, mannerisms and dialogues while Vijayaraghavan, who received rave [...]
If a bowler gets three wickets in a row, we know it is called a hat trick. What we don’t know is the right word when an actor delivers five flops in a row. We are not talking about ordinary actors like Jayasurya or Manikuttan but the redoubtable Mohanlal. Mohanlal’s Flash occupied the same position [...]
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The year is 2008 not 1980. Malayalees have lost the appetite for slow, sentimental, autobiographical movies, but East Coast Vijayan known for his stage shows where his name is repeated every 15 minutes has not realized it. His first film, according to reviewers induces drowsiness. Also when we thought that Jayaram’s career could only go [...]
In Kamal Hassan’s last Malayalam movie Chanakya, he played a wronged man who is out to get revenge on the Chief Minister. For this he used technology (microwave signals to scramble the CM’s speech) and a mimicry artiste (to overlay another speech in the CM’s voice). When it comes to vigilante movies, the ending is [...]
“Scripts must not be considered as the backseat element to star valueâ€, says the star of 2007, Sreenivasan. “A good script is a fundamental element contributing to the success of a film. Instead of giving importance to get better scripts, obsession with star value has reduced the significance of the script in a filmâ€, says [...]
Vigilante movies are not unique in Malayalam. In fact Suresh Gopi and Shaji Kailas feed their families due to that genre. Director Jayaraj once put his hand in that honey pot and raked in money with For the People. Then like Suresh Gopi/Shaji Kailas, Jayaraj also seems to think that repeating the movie with a [...]
“Why is it that Tamil and Telugu dubbed films have taken Kerala by storm? It is only because of the way the songs are picturised and the glossy packaging. Similarly we are trying something that will attract our youth.†That is the analysis from Director Jayaraj on what is happening in Kerala. It is no [...]
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