vc on March 27th, 2009

Idea 1: There is a scarcity for screenplay writers and good stories in Malayalam.  Some of our screen writers fee is  more than what the Director would charge. So there is a school of thought which promotes this idea of making movies without screenplay.
Idea 2:  Some Indian advertisements are very stylish, but they are mostly [...]

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vc on February 8th, 2008

Recently Bharadwaj Rangan wrote
I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the near future, multiplexes everywhere take to installing braincheck rooms outside the cinema halls. As we hold out our tickets to the usher, I can see us being asked to deposit our cranial matter for safekeeping through the duration of the movie, so that not a [...]

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vc on January 17th, 2008

The year is 2008 not 1980. Malayalees have lost the appetite for slow, sentimental, autobiographical movies, but East Coast Vijayan known for his stage shows where his name is repeated every 15 minutes has not realized it. His first film, according to reviewers induces drowsiness. Also when we thought that Jayaram’s career could only go [...]

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vc on December 24th, 2007

We had great expectations for Sibi Malayil’s come back movie, but he seems to have lost sense of cinema during the time he was off. How else do you explain the fact that he agreed to direct such a movie, which is losely based on Manichithathazhu in which Sibi himself worked? The reviewers unanimously agree [...]

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vc on December 13th, 2007

Sudama was a childhood friend of Krishna, but they lost touch with each other. Sudama remained a poor brahmin and when he went through bad times in his life his wife reminded him of Krishna. Reluctantly Sudama went to meet Krishna and you know what happened. Srinivasan’s version of the story consists of the friendship [...]

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vc on December 10th, 2007

After 28 movies, the trade circles think that Prithviraj can be a solo hero. When Classmates was a super hit, it was said that it was not a single hero movie. When his roles in Vargam and Vasthavam were said to be good, it was suggested that he cannot do comedy. Now that Chocolate is [...]

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vc on November 26th, 2007

Karl Marx, when he wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 believed that, ” capitalism will be displaced by communism, a classless society after another transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.” Nothing of that sort happened and communism turned out to be the worst economic [...]

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