Making socially relevant movies, though needed, is commercially risk prone. This is because most writers and directors try the preaching path. Then within that preaching angle, they inflict too much melodrama that people stay away from it. Then some movies like Sheelabati and Kathavaseshan are simply boring. There are some excellent movies like Kanne Madanguka [...]
Among the recent songs in Malayalam cinema, there are two songs to pay attention to. The first one is Nila Nila from Tournament sung by Karthik and Swetha, written by Vayalar Sharatchandra Varma and composed by Deepak Dev. First, the song itself is absolutely divine with the guitar in the backdrop. It is not very [...]
One of our hobbies is over-analyzing Manichitrathazhu. If you recently arrived at this site, you should read the following articles Review: Manichitrathazhu Can Manichithrathazhu be remade? More Manichitrathazhu Analysis Oru Murai Vanthu Parthayo One of the points that has come up often is regarding the voice behind Ganga and Nagavalli. Was Shobhana’s National Award justified? [...]
After crashing a plane called ‘Khandahar’ into the midst of Malayali audience, Major Ravi definitely had to rethink his strategy. He tried to tell an untold story and it failed due to bad execution. So what is the way forward? Create another army movie? Create a historical army movie? Create a futuristic Avatar kind of [...]
Recently New York Times had this article, On Road to Recovery, Past Adversity Provides a Map, which had this clip: Each negative event a person faces leads to an attempt to cope, which forces people to learn about their own capabilities, about their support networks — to learn who their real friends are. That kind [...]
There is a very complicated sequence in Juan José Campanella’s Argentinian crime thriller, The Secret in Their Eyes. The camera flies through the dark night sky and we see a brightly lit football stadium. As the camera flies over the stadium we see a match in progress to packed audience. In a sweeping motion, the [...]
Rajesh Pillai’s debut movie, ‘Hrudayathil Sukshikkan’ which came out in the year 2005 was a poor copy of the Hollywood hit ‘Meet the Parents’. But his second movie ‘Traffic’ which is also the first Malayalam release of 2011 is not only an original one but also manages to keep you in the edge of the [...]
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