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 between [...]
He has been ridiculed many times – for being a plagiarist and unoriginal. But he ignored the critics, claimed that his movies are not for intellectuals, but kids, and went on to become one of the highest paid directors in India. Now finally Priyadarshan has got recognition at a national level for an un-Priyadarshan type [...]
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If these are the questions that prevent you from getting a good night’s sleep, then you should [...]
Finally, in our life time, we are able to see an original Priyadarshan movie. Bharadwaj Rangan has a review of Kanchivaram (A Communist Confession)
It’s fascinating, really, how this most commercial of film directors, here, treats melodrama like minefields to be carefully skirted. When Vengadam, influenced by the rabble-rousing of a communist, prepares a list of [...]
Priyadarshan is going to remake Katha Parayumbol in Hindi with Ifran Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. In an interview with Shobha Warrier, Srinivasan explained that Priyadarshan first did not understand the story initially.
Priyadarshan was another one of the few people I narrated the story to at the very outset. I expected him to make some [...]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video would be worth about a million words. Since our favorite past time is analyzing Manichithrathazhu, we present to you the original oru murai song and the same song from various remakes.
First the original starring Shobana, directed by Fazil
In the Kannada version P. Vasu asks [...]
Last week Priyadarshan’s latest Hindi movie Bhool Bhulaiyya starring Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Rajpal Yadav and Paresh Rawal was released to mixed reviews. Like most of his previous movies, this one was also a remake, this time of the Malayalam classic Manichithrathazhu , but some reviewers think that even though it [...]
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