vc on May 23rd, 2008

Few years back we saw director Fazil doing a delicate trapeze act in a movie which had both Mohanlal  and Mammootty. Walking on egg shells, the director decided to have two different climaxes for the movie. If you were in Malabar region, you would have seen Mammootty winning Juhi Chawla and if you were from [...]

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vc on May 15th, 2008

There is some brouhaha going on between Dileep and MACTA. Long story short: Dileep, it seems, took some money to act in a Thulasidas movie about four years back. Now not only has he backed out of the movie, but “Dileep had informed Thulasidas, one of the leading directors, that he would work with him [...]

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vc on May 13th, 2008

Mohanlal’s personal producer, Mr. Antony Perumbavoor, needs to take some economics lessons. That seems to be the verdict from the Vishu movies.
Faced by miserable flops, including a four or five by Mohanlal himself, the Malayalam movie industry decided to change the way movies are released in Kerala. Throwing away artificial demarcations like A, B, and [...]

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vc on May 12th, 2008

When you associate Srinivasan with a movie, you know at best, it would be a watchable one. Debutant scriptwriter- director Leo Thadeus has done to Srinivasan what Ranjan Pramod did to Mohanlal in Photographer.
Ram writes
The problem with Pachamarathanalil is its script- there is no cohesiveness to it and it meanders aimlessly between characters. The [...]

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vc on May 9th, 2008

Jiby decided to blog about Prithviraj’s upcoming movie Thalappavu because of only one reason.
I decided to pitch this movie seeing propoganda aimed against this film by our “harmless” superstar fans who have already begun deriding it as offbeat, a “derisive” label which today is used to keep people away from theatres. A movie like this [...]

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vc on May 7th, 2008

Recently Padmapriya slapped Suresh Gopi. It was for a movie, but the slap was so real that Suresh Gopi’s cheek turned red as if he was enacting a scene in Lanka. Then Suresh Gopi being the macho man of Malayalam cinema could not really whine about it to the media. Some slaps are real, [...]

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vc on May 2nd, 2008

First Rambha came on stage and danced to a Tamil song. Then Naresh Iyer crooned Cruise Control from Rang De Basanti which was followed by Mukta George dancing to the Tamil song Kutti Pisase. Naresh Iyer sang Kathal Koncham followed once again by Rambha dancing to Valayapatti and Mukta to a song from the new [...]

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