Mamta Mohandas
The subject of Shaji Kailas’s movies always have contemporary socio-political issues in the background. There will be a group of corrupt and greedy politicians, bureaucrats and police officers who form the caucus of villains, after a series of setbacks, the hero would finally break free with the blessings of a benevolent politician, usually the Chief [...]
The reviewers are unanimous about the technical brilliance of Big B. The new director, Amal Neerad, gets favourable mention about the treatment and handling of the movie and the theme. Cinematography, editing and every other techinal aspect of the movie gets positive reviews. Looks like this is one of the most technically brilliant movies in [...]
Mammootty continues with his Jekyl and Hyde behaviour. After the back to back releases of three ‘meaningful’ movies (Karutha Pakshigal, Palunku and Kaiyyoppu) he’s playing to the gallery. First Mayavi, which is doing a roaring business even now and now Big B. Mary John Kurisingal is a teacher and a social worker. She has four [...]
Baba Kalyani draws mixed reviews, opinions range from terrible to satifying. Reviews give low marks to S N Swami’s lacklustre screenplay. It has to be seen if Mohanlal’sbad luck with Police Costumes will end with this movie. Sify writes Despite all that pre-release positive hype and hoopla, Mohanlal’s Baba Kalyani leaves you cold. There is [...]
Sometime back we blogged about this phenonenon of Malayali actresses who had reservations on exposing going to Tamil and behaving like college kids on spring break. In that article we made few other observations. One was that Malayali actresses would not expose in Malayalam, but only in other languages. The second was that even when [...]
In Madhuchandralekha’s preview we were hoping that Raghunath Paleri, who wrote screenplay and dialogue, would do a good job and provide us with one of those beautiful movies, as he had done in the past. But the movie reviews tell a different tale, the story and screenplay has let the movie down. Sify.com says: The [...]
Jayaram and Rajasenan made some good movies many years back like Ayalathe Adheham, and Meleparambil Aanveedu. Most of these films followed the same design pattern of light comedy, light sentiments, and a happy ending. These movies were entertaining and less taxing on the brain and heart. After a while that combination stopped making films. Now [...]
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