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Tamil Nadu Government: For banning Dam 999. The movie is so terrible that it would have collapsed on its own, but then they had to go and ban it. Banning films is so retarded that we feel that we are living in communist/socialist country. But then this is the same state which banned Da Vinci [...]
(Ranjit Nair blogs at Occupied Space) “Pranchiyettan and the Saint” is, I believe, director Ranjit giving the finger to those who had labeled him a “Hinduvta” director after a series of movies such as Devasuram, Ravanaprabhu, Nandanam, Prajapathy etc. There have been several movies based on the Kottayam Christian milieu; however movies set in Thrissur are [...]
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Christian Brothers is the most awesomest movie we have ever seen this year. The primary goal of the script writers was not to tax the brain of Malayali viewer and provide VFM (Value for Money). It is filmed in exactly the same house as Twenty-Twenty, with most people of that movie playing exactly the same [...]
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 [...]
Joshiy and his team have reworked their ‘Twenty-20’ template to make a half baked thriller called ‘Christian Brothers’. There are foreign location songs, superstar Mohanlal in a larger than life role, father-son sentiments, Dileep’s comic acts, twists which come in every thirty minutes, Suraj Venjaramooodu’s bufoonery, an interval punch similar to what we saw in [...]
(This review was written by Nikhil Narayanan and is cross posted from his blog) If you are unhappy with the lack of women-centric themes in Malayalam cinema, here’s a reprieve. This movie belongs to Kavya Madhavan, who has brilliantly delivered the role portraying the hardships of a Malayalee maid in a Sheikh’s house in Saudi [...]
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