Sathyan Anthikkad
“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. [...]
We’ll know soon if the hit drought for Mohanlal end with this release. The reviewers response is varied, some said Innathe Chintha vishayam is bad , some said it’s an average soap opera. This is definitely not an indication of a blockbuster in making. Notat all encouraging for last year’s best actor and best scriptwriter. [...]
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This is the new Hindi cinema strategy. The importance of the opening weekend is here to stay and increase. About 10 years ago, Mumbai’s Dreamland cinema was an important theatre and ran about 21 shows a week. But when Race released, Cinemax alone was screening 26 shows a day! In Andheri, between Cinemax, Fun Republic [...]
That is producer-director Lal talking to Deepika about how Malayalees are not putting in hard work in the field of cinema compared to people in other states. This Malayali attitude is what writer-director Sathyan Anthikkad tackles in his latest movie Vinodayatra. Sathyan’s films follow a template, with a hilarious first half and an emotionally loaded [...]
 While people gloat about the positive things about Kerala like high life expectancy and literacy rate, there ignore many negativities on the social and economic front. For example, Malayalees are one of the biggest drunkards in India and also lead the nation in the number of suicides. Though we have high literacy, we need [...]
Written by Guest contributor Unni Had Cavendish, Pauling or Rutherford been alive today, they would have been proud; as their pet subject, Chemistry, is the most discussed topic these days, be it the Election “chemistry” of AIADMK (as opposed to the “arithmetic” of DMK) or the off-screen chemistry of Simbu/Nayantara or the on-screen chemistry of [...]
Early in the movie, there is a scene where Amma (KPAC Lalitha) gets a letter by post. She wonders as to who is writing a letter to her now. She along with her children Meera (Karthika), Monu (Yadukrishnan) and another daughter are living as tenants in a house in the city. Is it from her [...]
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