Despite being hugely successful at box-office and critically acclaimed ,its still difficult for movies to please all audiences equally. Some viewers don’t like action movies, some don’t like the comedies if they go over the top even slightly and some just cant stand the heartbreaking tearjerkers. A fine case of an exception , a movie that is perhaps loved […]
I still remember the day I watched Classmates in 2006. You did not have the aid of social media like Facebook back then to learn about the views of people soon. Only opinion I heard was from a friend that it was a good movie. 20 minutes into the movie and I knew what I […]
Sridevi had the author backed role in Moondram Pirai where she was expected to reap the maximum benefits and win the major awards. She played a girl who loses her memory and intelligence after an accident and hence had a greater room to display histrionics. She did a fantastic job too. Kamal Haasan gladly played […]
‘Namuku gramangalil chennu rapaarkam , athikalathu munthirithoppukalil poyi munthirivalli thalirthu poovidukayum mathalanarakam pookukkayum cheytho ennu nokkaam…’ Solomon (Mohanlal) tells Sofia (Shari) this and asks her to check Bible for the rest of the lines. A proposal in Malayalam cinema has never been so beautiful before or after. Padmarajan’s 1986 movie – ‘Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal’ […]
‘Ninakku avale ishtamaano ?’ ‘Mmm’ ‘Avalko ?’ ‘Njan chodichitilla’ Kilukkam is one of the finest examples in Malayalam of how you could make a perfect commercial movie and a huge blockbuster with all the ingredients in the right proportions. It had some of Malayalam Cinema’s best comedy sequences ever all which worked purely because of […]
Not all great love stories happen before marriage. Some of them start afterwards too. Not all love stories have to be candyfloss . They could be mature and deal with emotions in relationships in a more realistic manner. There are few movies that illustrates this better than Mani Ratnam’s Mouna Ragam. Mouna Ragam told the story […]
Some movies just grow on you. They might make a lot more sense to you and you could relate to them years later than you watched it for the first time. I saw Dil Chahta Hai when I was at school and I just felt it as an okay movie. As I made more visits […]
‘Ninte achanaada parayunne kathi thaazhe ideda’ – tells a helpless Achuthan Nair to his son, Sethumadhavan in the closing scene of Kireedam. Sethumadhavan has just stabbed and killed the criminal who ruined his life but is still in a furious mental state and pointing the knife vigorously to his father. After few seconds, he comes back to his senses, […]
For most movie lovers , their favorite Malayalam comedy movie would be one of the Priyadarshan, Sathyan Anthikad or Siddique Lal movies in 80’s or 90’s. I am also a big fan of these movies but for me ,Nadodikkattu stands above the rest for its sheer simplicity and for producing some of our all time […]
2013 marks centenary year of the Indian Film Industry. Kamal chooses this occasion to pay tribute to the father of Malayalam Cinema ,J.C Daniel in his new movie – Celluloid and succeeds in transforming the real-life poignant tale to a beautiful movie experience. The movie starts off at 1928 when Joseph Chellayya Daniel Nadar( Prithviraj) meets Dada […]