vc on February 10th, 2010

There is a song in Krishnagudiyil oru Pranayakalathu called Pinneyum Pinneyum aaro kinaavathu. Vidyasagar had set the tune and they were not able to get the proper lyrics. One day while Vidyasagar and Gireesh Puthenchery were walking in the evening and then the lines came to him. A song which we will never forget. We [...]

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vc on December 6th, 2009

Renjith is on a roll, and 2009 seems to be good year for Malayalam cinema.  As per the reviews, what makes Palery Manikyam: Oru Pathirakkolapathakathinte Katha a winner is Mammootty, screenplay and direction. Movie got released in just 40 centers, which is half the number of usual super star guerrilla attack releases. We’ll have to wait for some [...]

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vc on December 2nd, 2009

As the legend goes,  blue lotus blooms as a sign of god’s  answer to one’s prayers.  Movie lovers in Kerala been praying for good cinema for a while and we were hoping that Lal Jose’s Neelathamara would be the answer.  Reading the reviews we are not 100% sure about it as the opinion is divided. [...]

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vc on December 1st, 2009

One of the sub 3.5 crore movies released recently called Uttara Swayamvaram starred Jayasurya and Roma.
If you had thought that the ‘poor boy meets rich girl, sparks fly at an odd hour’ kind of stories are a thing of the past, think again. Debutant director Ramakanth Sarju’s Utharaswayamvaram talks about such a tale which obviously [...]

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vc on October 16th, 2009

Wait was worth! For Malayalam cinema, it’s history in making – literally. The forgotten story of a prince, barely mentioned in our history books comes alive through the brilliant writing of MT, the majestic acting of Mammotty and direction of Hariharan. We hope that the producer recovers his investment.
Nikhil writes:
The movie portrays some of the [...]

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vc on February 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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vc on November 11th, 2008

Very often we have lamented about the sad state of Malayalam Cinema where only superstar movies provide guaranteed return. Why don’t Malayalees encourage youngsters or why don’t we have great scripts like the ones seen two decades back? These are questions we always asked.
Most often we hear the response that the “taste” has changed and [...]

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