vc on February 23rd, 2009

Recently reader Abhilash sent a link to this article which talks about the sad state of Malayalam cinema and blames it on the superstars. The article says: The sad thing is that once they were prophets of good movies and were part of them but now they are not promoting such movies. In fact, they [...]

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vc on February 22nd, 2009

First we heard the song Usually for such beautiful songs, the visualization would be bad. Excpecting that we saw the movie and was amazed. It took us back to 1989 when Malayalam movie songs were filmed beautifully, like this one Now a days we get scary stuff like this or this If we want to [...]

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vc on February 19th, 2009

What do you think Mohanlal is telling the newly married couple? Look at the expression on the faces of the three people in the picture and try to come up with a good caption[try to be funny, not nasty]. Image courtesy:sify.com

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vc on February 18th, 2009

We were discussing about Marcus Bartley and the barf inducing camera movements of modern cinematographers when reader AG left the following comment which had us rolling on the floor: True that. They do a lot of weird head ache inducing angles these days for no apparent perceptive reasons(MTV inspired, supposedly), one such being the ‘mongaan [...]

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vc on February 17th, 2009

Marcus Bartley was arguably the greatest cinematographer of those times. Almost all the superhits of those times were made with his hand at the camera. His specialty was the shots under the moonlight. In those days, a circle was drawn on a screen and the screen was lit to make it look like a moon. [...]

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vc on February 10th, 2009

Two years back Mohanlal appeared in a surrogate ad for Original Choice in which he uttered the catch line, “What’s the plan for the evening?.” This created such a backlash against the actor – The Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, an NGO,  criticized the actor. Many  wrote against him and concluded that he was a bad influence [...]

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vc on February 9th, 2009

Serial blogger D. Keith Robinson has some suggestions for overcoming writer’s block. The simplest idea is: write. The rationale behind this is the fact that if you keep on writing, even if it is something silly, the mind will soon overcome the block and words will flow. Unfortunately, Balachandran (Mammotty) who is working in a [...]

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