Category: Malayalam

Movies that speak about social injustice have certainly made impact on the masses in the past. Tamil film maker Shankar is a veteran in that genre. Punyalan Private Limited from director Ranjith Shankar which comes as a sequel to the 2013 film Punyalan Agarbathis is a film that tries to be this common man’s outburst… Continue reading Punyalan Private Limited

In the movie Hello Dubaikkaran, there is a scene where a lodge owner is asking a wannabe film maker about the story of the movie he wants to make. The story is so terrible that the lodge owner tells him that the first person to cry at the end of the film would be the… Continue reading Hello Dubaikkaran

In 1971, the television broadcasting company ABC assigned a task to a young film maker to shoot a road movie thriller within a time of 10 days and do the post production work within two weeks and release the movie on television. The debutant director took the risk and his courageous decision to make the… Continue reading Overtake

Goodalochana is Dhyan Sreenivasan’s debut as a writer. The main issue with this Thomas Sebastian movie is the script by the lead actor. It is not that there was no scope for a movie in that thought. But the script of the film Goodalochana over blows an element that should have been kept really simple.… Continue reading Goodalochana

Viswa Vikhyatharaya Payyanmar is the name of the movie and I am still trying to figure out the reason why the writer director of the film named it like that. It’s about a bunch of boys who aren’t doing much with their lives. What is annoying about this movie is the script which looks like… Continue reading Viswa Vikhyatharaya Payyanmar

Villain from B Unnikrishnan is a movie that tries to be intellectual and sophisticated in its presentation. But the film isn’t really trying anything beyond the existing template. More than the content, it is the quality technical backup this film has makes it look like an okay film. With Mohanlal delivering a good performance as… Continue reading Villain

The intention and the message the film Aakashamittayee is trying to convey is obviously genuine. But it is the extremely unreal making that makes this movie an underwhelming experience. The theme here is very much similar to the Hindi film Taare Zameen Par which urges parents to look for the talent in kids rather than… Continue reading Aakashamittayee

Imagine watching 10 short films back to back and out of the 10 only three are worthy of being called nice. That was my situation while I watched the new Malayalam movie Crossroad which is a compilation of 10 films by 10 directors focusing on femininity. Except for the three relatively good ones, for all… Continue reading Crossroad