M.Padmakumar

vc on May 1st, 2009

In our review of Vargam, three years back, we wrote Though the story looks interesting there is nothing new in it for it is an exact copy of Devasuram, including the climax scene. The director of this movie, Padmakumar worked as an assistant to Renjith who wrote Devasuram.[Review : Vargam | varnachitram] To which Raphel [...]

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vc on July 21st, 2008

Panathinu meethe Parinthu parukkumo illayo ennu enikku ariyathilla. Athellam Parinthinte sowkariyam pole. Pakshe ente ee thalaikku meethe oru Parinthum parakkila. Paranaal.. chiraku arinju kalayum njaan.-[Madambi attacks Parinthu! ] That was a line from Madambi and so we were all eager to see which movie had a worse story. Considering that Madambi was a rehash of [...]

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vc on May 23rd, 2008

Few years back we saw director Fazil doing a delicate trapeze act in a movie which had both Mohanlal  and Mammootty. Walking on egg shells, the director decided to have two different climaxes for the movie. If you were in Malabar region, you would have seen Mammootty winning Juhi Chawla and if you were from [...]

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vc on January 29th, 2007

  In one of the most powerful scenes  in Vaasthavam we see  Unnithan(Jagathi) and Balachandran(Prithviraj) dividing five lakh rupees in hundreds of envelopes.  This is the money for bribing various individuals in state secretariat to get approval for a factory. In this occasion  Unnithan waxes eloquent about power of envelope and its place in democracy. This [...]

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vc on November 20th, 2006

As per the reviews, the movies seems to be of good quality. Looks like Vaasthavam is a movie in which has good direction, story/screen play and performances – a rare occurence in Malayalam. Sify.com says: The Pritviraj-Padmakumar team has given us something to cheer. After Ammakilikoodu and Vargam, they have come out with Vaasthavam, a [...]

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vc on November 9th, 2006

After Ammakkilikkoodu and Vargam , Padmakumar and Prithviraj have joined hands together again. Raghavan Master, a scion of a high Namboothiri family and an ardent communist considered his party more than his family or any other relations. He, in the course of increasing his party’s holds and preaching party ideals sold away much of his [...]

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vc on October 17th, 2006

In the opening teaser scene in the movie, you see a bunch of people beating a man to pulp. It is darkness and you don’t get to see the faces. After that you see Sub-Inspector Solomon (Prithviraj) lying in a hospital fighting for his life. Then the movie starts and you get to know why [...]

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