Movies

James on December 14th, 2011

There is still 3 more weeks towards the end of 2011, but I think this is a good time to find out our “Best” artists of the Malayalam film industry for the year of 2011. It’s just a little early but its a good time for an estimate. I encourage all the readers to post [...]

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NikhiMenon on December 2nd, 2011

Malayalam Film Industry and the word ‘crisis’ are like the ‘Lava-Kusha’ inthe Ramayana. Whenever we talk about Malayalam Cinema we hear someone lamenting:   ‘Malayalam Cinema is in deep crisis’ or ‘Malayala Cinema ICU vilanu’ or ‘Malayala Cinema Nashikkunnu’…   Infact these phrases have are oft repeated  that they have become as stale as any [...]

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vc on November 16th, 2011

Do you know what is the most important news from Malayalam cinema world? It is the last line in the Rediff article on the new Mohanlal-Priyadarshan movie. The film was originally titled Arabiyum Ottakavum P Madhavan Nairum (Arab, Camel and P Madhavan Nair) and the addition (In Oru Maruboomikkadha–A desert tale) was added after certain [...]

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vc on October 31st, 2011

Trailer of Future of Malayalam Cinema The Kerala theatres which used to screen mostly Malayalam films will be taken over by Other Language Films (OLF) from Diwali day (October 26). OLF means Tamil and Hindi films. The two major Tamil films releasing for Diwali are Vijay’s Velayudham and Suriya’s7aum Arivu. Plus the Hindi film of Shah [...]

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vc on August 25th, 2011

[coauthored with Nikhi Menon] In the finale of Munch Star Singer Junior Mr. Jagathi Sreekumar made a speech in which he came out against the anchor Ranjini Haridas. Mimicking her style of speaking, which is Malayalam with an English accent, he said that the anchor should just do anchoring and should not have any opinion [...]

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vc on August 18th, 2011

Johnson is no more.   We are speechless.  We remember him via his immortal songs. He leaves behind his wife, kids and a bunch of programmers who create electronic music.

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Kishore Kumar on July 25th, 2011

Salt n’ Pepper rocks! The movie ushers in modernity into the stagnated landscape of Malayalam romantic comedies. And by “modernity”, I did not mean a six-packed hero and semi-nude heroine breaking out into a pelvic-thrusting fantasy song-and-dance sequence shot at some exotic locations in USA/Europe. Nor did I mean a campus or IT-company setting where [...]

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