For Westerners, Bollywood = Indian Film Industry. Their stars are better known, and get more coverage in the national press. But what is the truth?
If you are looking at revenues from film content, the southern film industry generated about Rs 1,700 crore last year; Bollywood did less than Rs 600 crore! And if you are [...]
2009 was the year in which we were blogging sporadically and there were periods in which we had given up hope on Malayalam cinema. In the 2nd half of the year, Malayalam cinema started showing signs of life.
Here’s a Top 5 posts of 2009 – These were selected based on 2 criterion – 1) We [...]
Reviewers claim that Ivide Swargam Aanu is one of the better movies of this Christmas season, James Albert seems to have delivered a solid script after Classmates.
Berly Comments:
Ratheesh’s views:
Towards the climax, the director seems to have dropped his ambitions to make a serious social drama. He tries to wind up things quickly in the last [...]
Director of the last year’s hit movie Passenger, Ranjit Sankar announced his next venture in his blog. The new movie named Arjunan Saakshi , has Prithvi Raj in the lead. Details here.
Continue reading about A first – new movie announced in the blog
Looks like the story of Chattambinadu didn’t stray away too much from the usual formulaic potboilers we have seen in the near past. But looks like the main protagonist, done by Mammootty, holds up the movie.
Berly comments:
RainMaker says the movie is Strictly Average:
The saving grace of the whole affair is Mammotty who is once again superb [...]
Till now we had a bunch of alphabet soup organizations trying to cut down the branch they are sitting on. Now, if Shaji Karun is to be believed, one organization, whose job is to promote arts, is also in the market to destroy good cinema.
According to Shaji Karun, some folks are out to give bad [...]
Reader Abhilash, submitted this as a comment, it’s not every day we get such detailed analysis and this one particularly stands out among other eulogizing reviews.
This is mainly intended for those who have come across raving reviews about the movie and are eagerly looking forward to seeing it. The movie has been hyped up so [...]
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