vc on December 6th, 2009

Renjith is on a roll, and 2009 seems to be good year for Malayalam cinema.  As per the reviews, what makes Palery Manikyam: Oru Pathirakkolapathakathinte Katha a winner is Mammootty, screenplay and direction. Movie got released in just 40 centers, which is half the number of usual super star guerrilla attack releases. We’ll have to wait for some [...]

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vc on May 12th, 2008

When you associate Srinivasan with a movie, you know at best, it would be a watchable one. Debutant scriptwriter- director Leo Thadeus has done to Srinivasan what Ranjan Pramod did to Mohanlal in Photographer.
Ram writes
The problem with Pachamarathanalil is its script- there is no cohesiveness to it and it meanders aimlessly between characters. The [...]

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vc on January 28th, 2008

[Srinivasan says the truth ]
While analyzing Mohanlal’s flops of the year we identified scripting or the lack of it as the major reason for the flop and it is heartening to see one of the best script writers in Malayalam agreeing with us. In fact the whole article is worth reading. There is a limit [...]

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vc on January 9th, 2008

“Scripts must not be considered as the backseat element to star value”, says the star of 2007, Sreenivasan.
“A good script is a fundamental element contributing to the success of a film. Instead of giving importance to get better scripts, obsession with star value has reduced the significance of the script in a film”, says the [...]

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Movie Mazaa on December 21st, 2007

Story telling is an art in itself – one that has as its prerequisites three imperative traits; characters with potential, a decisive plot and cautious attention to detail. A good narrator does not use these in isolation; rather he spectacularly weaves them together in a vibrant fabric of creativity and comes up with a mind [...]

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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 July 9th, 2007

Any Communist who believes that the party looks after the poor is still living in a fool’s paradise. While this truth was self evident to us for a long time, it has taken a courageous film maker called Lal Jose to put that on screen. His new movie, along the lines of the excellent Achanurangatha [...]

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