In one episode of Idea Star Singer, K S Chitra explained her experience on recording a song with Rahman, whom she knew when he was a small boy working in Illayaraja’s studio. With Rahman, the song is not finished when the singer comes in; that is just the begining. Unlike track singing or recording with [...]
In this clip, MG Sreekumar explains the story behind the song Devasabhathalam. The original take was done by Yesudas, Sreekumar and Sharath. According to Sreekumar, he kept up with Yesudas, prompting the music director Raveendran to remind him that he is singing for a losing singer in the movie (played by Kaithapram) that he had [...]
Kerala State Film Awards for 2008 has been announced by a jury with Kannada Director Girish Kasaravally as the chairman.
Category
Winner
Best Film
Oru Pennum Randannum(Director – Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
Best Director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan(Movie – Oru Pennum Randannum)
Best Actor
Lal (Thalappavu)
Best Actress
Priyanka(Vilapangalkkapuram)
Acting – Comedy
Mamukkoya(Innathe Chinthavishayam)
Best Actor(Runner Up)
Anoop Menon(Thirakatha)
Best Actress(Runner Up)
Praveena (Oru Pennum Randannum)
Best Film (Runner Up)
Vilapangalkkapuram (T.V.Chandran)
Popular Movie
Innathe Chinthavishayam(Sathyan Anthikkad)
Best Screenplay
Adoor Gopalakrishnan(Movie [...]
Serial blogger D. Keith Robinson has some suggestions for overcoming writer’s block. The simplest idea is: write. The rationale behind this is the fact that if you keep on writing, even if it is something silly, the mind will soon overcome the block and words will flow. Unfortunately, Balachandran (Mammotty) who is working in a [...]
Laptop Music Review
Composer-Sreevalsan J. Menon
There is a beautiful and grossly underrated song in the movie Ratchagan composed by A. R. Rehman. The song, titled Kanavu, starts with kayyil mithakkum kanava nee. For many, it was their first wow moment with the singer Srinivas. What has this song to do with Laptop (movie)’s songs composed by [...]
Continue reading about Math & Melody: The Rhythm-Emotion Duel
(Maddy, our new contributor blogs at Maddy’s Ramblings This article was cross posted at his site.)
For quite some time I searched around for information on the Malayalam singer Mehaboob, but only a little could be dredged. It was finally a brilliant, thought provoking and sentimental article by novelist Vennala Mohan in last years ‘Manorama Onappathippu’ [...]
Making movies with new comers is risky business and it was explained to us by producer Maniyanpilla Raju
It’s a common misconception that if new comers are acting in a movie the cost of the movie will be low. Even if the newcomer is hero , the other actors in the movie, would not reduce their [...]
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