Category: Malayalam

Director of Theevandi Fellini has recently said in an interview that the movie is a political satire. But after watching it, what I personally felt was that the film doesn’t really fit into that category smoothly. Yes, the satiric approach in the political track of the movie has a key role to play in Theevandi… Continue reading Theevandi

I like watching movies that may not have an unusual trajectory but will have characters that will go through a variety of conflicts, ultimately seeking redemption. Ranam: Detroit Crossing directed by debutant Nirmal Sahadev was one such experience where the characters and their lonely helpless side stayed with me. I wasn’t really hoping for an… Continue reading Ranam

Neeli directed by debutante Althaf Rahman is a mixed bag. It tries to be a revenge drama and also a horror thriller where the title persona is looked at as a guardian angel. It has this confusion to be whether a pure genre film that explores horror or whether to be a genre mix by… Continue reading Neeli

There were people walking out, people blabbering and commenting throughout the film Iblis. I went in after knowing that Iblis was a fantasy film and came out as a pretty satisfied viewer and at the same time I felt disappointed at the way a section of the audience was resisting to surrender to the genre.… Continue reading Iblis

During the promotions of his new movie Ennalum Sarath, filmmaker Balachandra Menon has said that why his last film Njan Samvidhaanam Cheyyum flopped in theaters was because the intended audience never came to see the film on the first day itself. And he said that with Ennalum Sarath he is trying to appeal to the… Continue reading Ennalum Sarath

The movie Kinavalli directed by Sugeeth opens with a voice-over by Biju Menon in which he urges us to not look at the logic aspect of this movie as it is a ghost story. I can completely understand that argument because ghosts are not a scientifically proven thing to have a logical debate. But what… Continue reading Kinavalli

Anoop Menon is making a comeback as a writer in movies after a gap of nearly 4 years. But it seems like the writer’s tools have gone back with this break and the new movie, Ente Mezhuthiri Athazhangal written by Anoop Menon which is directed by Sooraj Thomas is pretty much a pile of old-school… Continue reading Ente Mezhuthiri Athazhangal

When you try to make a film about a bad guy’s transformation, the key element in the script is how you will place that element of goodness inside a person who is so deep-rooted in being rowdy. Even though it has a few jitters in its journey to the end point, Maradona ultimately works and… Continue reading Maradona