Category: Malayalam

Directed by debutante Midhun Manuel Thomas, the movie Aadu Oru Bheegara Jeevi Aanu is a directorial failure. Midhun has managed to keep the dialogues in the cool and witty zone, but by overdoing the simple comedy with irrelevant exaggerations, the movie becomes a boring experience. The scarcity of laughable subplots with genuine humor was the… Continue reading Aadu Oru Bheegara Jeevi Aanu

A sluggish first 20 minutes, an interesting 15 minutes after that and there after it just goes on and on without any specific aim (Don’t ask me whether I was looking at the watch, it is just a guess). Well known script writer James Albert’s first directorial movie titled Mariyam Mukku is an untidy script… Continue reading Mariyam Mukku

If you ask me whether Picket 43 is the best film of Major Ravi, I would rather say it was his best chance till date to create an unforgettable movie. Picket 43 is one movie which has a very unique theme, but an entirely unplanned screenplay. Clocking at 107 minutes of total running time, Picket… Continue reading Picket 43

Success of Mili is in how it succeeded in depicting the title character’s inferiority. With his directional standards Rajesh Pillai has done a really good effort to give life to the character Mili written by Mahesh Narayanan. However, how much it will influence you and inspire you is something that is questionable. For me that… Continue reading Mili

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