vc on January 27th, 2010

Fazil is known as minimum guarantee director, even if you ignore atrocities like the one he made with his son. Then he wrote a movie for Dileep and even the mice and cat went into hiding. Lal Jose has given blockbusters like Meesha Madhavan with Dileep, then he made Mulla. Siddique similarly is the man [...]

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vc on November 20th, 2009

We saw a movie which was made for less than 3.5 crore the other day called Romeo. It was directed by one of our favorite directors, Rajasenan, starring one of our favourite comedy actors, Dileep and written by the successful duo, Rafi-Mecartin.
In this movie Dileep plays Manu Krishnan, a male nurse. That itself is supposed [...]

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vc on August 24th, 2009

Completion of acting  milestones by superstars are celebrated with fanfare.  But Shobhana’s completion of 25 years in movies  almost sneaked past us.  Her contribution to Malayalam cinema is enormous, blogger Ram takes a in-depth look at Shobhana’s career.
rted with movies in languages other than Malayalam, her strong foothold has always remained in the Malayalam film [...]

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vc on May 4th, 2009

Often we complain, after being subject to torture like Sagar alias Jackie and Love  in Singapore, that why don’t we make some decent movies? Apparently we do still make decent movies. At least 10 Malayalis can vouch that Bhoomi Malayalam is watchable.

Bhoomi Malayalam is good, fast, at times a little too ‘painkili’ emotional(that would be [...]

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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 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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