Prithviraj
Rediff has an interview with Prithviraj in which he asks “What have I done to deserve this”. By that he means the nasty comments created by Malayalis on him and his family. It seems that has reached a peak on the Internet. I don’t know. I think the vehement attacks started happening much after that. [...]
(This post is written by Raj Menon, who is a journalist with Indian Express. ) THE first thing that struck me about Santosh Sivan’s Urumi is its simplicity. Okay, so it reportedly cost around Rs 20 crore to make. Sure,the frames are rich, the sets lavish and the canvas grand. But Urumi is ,at its [...]
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For those of us used to seeing so called “Entertainers” like Twenty-Twenty or various mindless comedy movies, Urumi is a welcome change. It is a bold move from the producers to think of a big canvas movie, get a pan-Indian cast and film it as professionally as possible. The movie falls into a new category [...]
By Arun Mohan See, there are several historical pitfalls as deep as a bore, which any history knowing person will understand. The advantage Urumi has is that, 99% of Malayalees donot know our own history, atleast pre-1857, whereas most of them study and learn about Mughal and Rajput histories. Even our own state curriculum donot [...]
In Malayalam, Urumi’s release preceeded with two trashy superstar movies, August 15 and Christian Brothers. In a sense, time was ripe for Urumi. For the lead actor Prithvi Raj, facing a huge road block in his career, with back to back flops, this should be a welcome relief. That he had invested in this movie [...]
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 [...]
To understand which star is high and which star is low, we have to understand how Malayalam cinema is financed. There are producers of course. But a lot of movies are produced by theater owners also. The producers then regain their money from distributors and also from various TV channels. Thus if TV Channels are [...]
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