vc on December 26th, 2009

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.

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vc on October 1st, 2009

If you have seen the trailer of Twenty-20, one of the teasers say, “All superstars in one screen.” This is followed by visuals of Mammotty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram and Dileep. Prithviraj is clubbed with Jayasurya, Kunchako Boban (remember him?), and few unknowns. But give us a break? Jayaram and Dileep are superstars? In which [...]

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vc on May 1st, 2009

In our review of Vargam, three years back, we wrote
Though the story looks interesting there is nothing new in it for it is an exact copy of Devasuram, including the climax scene. The director of this movie, Padmakumar worked as an assistant to Renjith who wrote Devasuram.[Review : Vargam | varnachitram]
To which Raphel Lazar commented
The [...]

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vc on December 23rd, 2008

Dud!
Sreeram says that this Lollipop sucks:
Lack of originality in script, repeated comic sequences and dialogues that irritate, boring songs and dull song picturizations, overacting by most of the cast (Salim Kumar and Jayasurya are the saving grace), shoddy editing, tacky art direction and outrageous props- these are only some of the drawbacks of this listless [...]

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vc on November 11th, 2008

Very often we have lamented about the sad state of Malayalam Cinema where only superstar movies provide guaranteed return. Why don’t Malayalees encourage youngsters or why don’t we have great scripts like the ones seen two decades back? These are questions we always asked.
Most often we hear the response that the “taste” has changed and [...]

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vc on September 18th, 2008

Finally some good news. Director Ranjith has found his groove. All reviewers agree that the film has freshness and is worth watching.
Nikhil writes
The very first shot itself gives us the mood and treatment of the film. Ranjith has taken good care in selecting the BGM for the shot and the entire film. The film revolves [...]

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vc on July 22nd, 2008

Kerala, as you know is God’s own country. Our model of development is the envy of various other states. We are literate than any other state in the union. So it is only natural that we do classy jobs in Kerala, like going to movie theaters and hooting. Director Kamal called a press conference [...]

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