Directors
Some directors refuse to grow up.They just repeat the same thing again and again without even realizing that their once loyal audience have moved on. Unless you are a Sathyan Anthikkad, this ‘old wine in an older bottle’ type of film making is only going to accelerate the demise of your career as a film [...]
Making socially relevant movies, though needed, is commercially risk prone. This is because most writers and directors try the preaching path. Then within that preaching angle, they inflict too much melodrama that people stay away from it. Then some movies like Sheelabati and Kathavaseshan are simply boring. There are some excellent movies like Kanne Madanguka [...]
One of our hobbies is over-analyzing Manichitrathazhu. If you recently arrived at this site, you should read the following articles Review: Manichitrathazhu Can Manichithrathazhu be remade? More Manichitrathazhu Analysis Oru Murai Vanthu Parthayo One of the points that has come up often is regarding the voice behind Ganga and Nagavalli. Was Shobhana’s National Award justified? [...]
Rajesh Pillai’s debut movie, ‘Hrudayathil Sukshikkan’ which came out in the year 2005 was a poor copy of the Hollywood hit ‘Meet the Parents’. But his second movie ‘Traffic’ which is also the first Malayalam release of 2011 is not only an original one but also manages to keep you in the edge of the [...]
S N Swamy and K Madhu enthralled us with the CBI series of movies, each of which progressively declined in quality. It reached a point when the parody became more entertaining than the original movie. So when S N Swamy and K Madhu made another movie and it sank without a trace, we were curious [...]
“If mainstream Malayalam cinema has deteriorated beyond recognition since the glorious days of the 1980s, it is solely because of film-makers,” director Sathyan Anthikkad said at a ‘meet-the-press’ programme in Kozhikode on Friday. “It is foolish to blame our audience; they should not show the way to directors, it should be the other way round. [...]
When we were studying in school, we had a friend who a simple hobby. When two people were fighting over a serious issue, he would get in the middle. Finally the two fighters would stop and beat up the new guy. Somehow Priyadarshan reminds us of this friend. He decided to get into the fight [...]
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