According to various reports, the AMMA management have done an Ammayi-Amma on Meera Jasmine for not finding time for their pet project. According to the new fatwa, Meera is not be cast in any Malayalam movie till the AMMA ban is lifted. Then as they say, the universe finds a way to provide justice. [...]

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vc on April 24th, 2008

Above is the story synopsis of an upcoming Mohanlal movie, Mizhigal Sakshi. After reading it we were left wondering how it is different from another Mohanlal movie Vadakkumnathan. Priyadarshan  used to steal from other languages, here we seem to be ‘adopting’ from our own without giving credit.

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vc on April 21st, 2008

What India got on August 15, 1947 was political freedom, sadly economic freedom and the freedom to do as you please are still a dream. While economic freedom is stifled by the goverment, which is hell bent on sustaining poverty, personal freedom is limited by various organizations, which for lack of better word can be [...]

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vc on April 18th, 2008

According to sify.com, De Ingottu Nokkiye is a blockbuster. Also according to them it is written by Srinivasan. Seems like a cut and paste job gone bad.

It is time Sify paid more salary to their employees to motivate them.

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vc on April 18th, 2008

Looks like Annan Thampi have saved Super stars from collective shame, and might be able to make its viewers and producers smile. Anwar Rasheed has made an unpretentious movie which rides on Mammootty’s comic skills. Reviewers call the movie an ‘entertainer’!
NowRunning.com calls the movie laugh-a-minute comic escapade:
Annan Thambi is a laugh-a-minute comic escapade [...]

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vc on April 16th, 2008

Priyadarshan is going to remake Katha Parayumbol in Hindi with Ifran Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. In an interview with Shobha Warrier, Srinivasan explained that Priyadarshan first did not understand the story initially.
Priyadarshan  was another one of the few people I narrated the story to at the very outset. I expected him to make some [...]

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vc on April 15th, 2008

Then came the ‘intellectual films’ — which ended up alienating the audiences altogether. With all due respect to the late Mr Aravindan, who was one of the leading practitioners of ‘intellectual films’, let me tell you that I couldn’t digest a single one of the films he made.
I saw his film Esthappan recently on television, [...]

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