Category: Malayalam

At one point in the movie writer director Sreekumaran Thampi makes fun of the modern day serials. But when we watch his new movie Ammakkoru Tharattu, we will find the movie as a close competitor to these daily soaps. With an extremely dramatic script that tries desperately to narrate the same old preachy story with… Continue reading Ammakkoru Tharattu

I won’t say that I have lost hope in the writing of Mr. Sreenivasan after watching Nagara Varidhi Naduvil Njan, as there were a lot of points in the movie where you can see the dialogue writer in him pouring quality sarcasm. The problem is with the story that lacks a different approach towards the… Continue reading Nagara Varidhi Naduvil Njan

Some stories look sensible on screen as it matches the culture and backdrop of the place they are set in. Aamayum Muyalum from veteran director Priyadarshan is the remake of his own hit bollywood movie Malamaal Weekly. The illiterate characters living in a lawless land seemed like a possible plot in Malamaal Weekly as it… Continue reading Aamayum Muyalum

They have tried to make it as colorful as it can be by creating set after set after set and guess what? There is no story! Cousins from director Vysakh is a movie that does not know how to travel to reach its destination. Using the used out theme of memory loss, Cousins is just… Continue reading Cousins

May be because of its smaller budget (sensing from the visual canvas) the new movie Seconds from director Aneesh Upasana lacks a grand outlook. But with an impressive climax and a sensible buildup with well nurtured characters, Seconds gradually becomes that pleasing thriller. Following the footsteps of the modern day trend of focusing on one… Continue reading Seconds

The first half of the movie Mylanchi monchulla Veedu has ample comedy that creates a lot of laughter among the audience and I can surely say that it is not that type of chaotic comedy. But as the story moves towards its climax, Udayakrishna and Sibi K Thomas ends up doing the very predictable things… Continue reading Mylanchi Monchulla Veedu

The Indrajith starrer Angels become more disappointing when the movie reaches the climax and it is not because the movie was a trash, it is because we kind of sense that it had the potential to be a good thriller. With an experimental back and forth narrative that fails to create an excitement, Angels becomes… Continue reading Angels

When you look at the conventional styles of movies, Lal Bahadur Shasthri has removed a lot of stereo types like unnecessary songs and totally irrelevant scenes. Well that has helped the movie to reduce its run time to 110 minutes (less than two hours) which I believe was the biggest positive of this harmless charmless… Continue reading Lal Bahadur Shasthri