Kavya Madhavan

vc on December 25th, 2007

Sibi Malayil’s Flash seems to have raced itself to the bottom of the pits among the December releases. So anything better than that should be watchable according to the reviewers. Raj Babu’s third movie seems to have the same class as his previous movies  (B-grade, stupid etc) and so Prithviraj might have to wait  for [...]

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vc on December 20th, 2007

She never said she would not act in Tamil or Telugu but would do it only when the right chance came. When comedy king Siddique (of Siddique-Lal) called her to act in his Tamil movie Saadhu Mirandal, she was more than happy. Then you cannot really call it a Tamil movie for the people behind [...]

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vc on December 10th, 2007

After 28 movies, the trade circles think that Prithviraj can be a solo hero. When Classmates was a super hit, it was said that it was not a single hero movie. When his roles in Vargam and Vasthavam were said to be good, it was suggested that he cannot do comedy. Now that Chocolate is [...]

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vc on December 3rd, 2007

One of the best and memorable characters Lohithadas has created is Sethu in Kireedom. Sethu was a simple man with a simple dream and slowly circumstances turned his world around. This is exactly what happened to another Lohithadas character, Bala Gopalan in Thaniyavarthanam who was branded as a lunatic due to a history of mental [...]

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vc on November 15th, 2007

Only fools analyze movies like Immini Nalloral and Pulival Kalyanam. Some others dump the story and write a few lines, “actor x did well, camera was good, costumes were good etc.” Real reviewers don’t write pages of story, but offer some sort of analysis which enhances the knowledge of the reader. The worst ones are [...]

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Movie Mazaa on November 3rd, 2007

(Cross-posted at Movie Mazaa) Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s tribute to Thakazhy Shivasankara Pillai – Naalu Pennungal (Four Women) – chronicles a journey of womanhood across assorted backdrops; a classic amalgamation of source matter and technique that splendidly spans frames and times. Of the four disjoined narrations The Prostitute is by far the best; Kunju Pennu, the street [...]

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vc on October 7th, 2007

The reigning stars of Malayalam cinema believe in matching each other step by step. For Onam we had a movie aimed at gallery from Mohanlal and an art house production from Mammootty. This Ramzan it’s Mohanlal’s turn to get one his art house productions released where as Mammooty is playing to the gallery with Nasrani. [...]

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