Ram Gopal Varma – Fallacy of penning the premature obituary of a prolific filmmaker
“The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion” – Kevin Patterson The quote…
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‘Yaathrayude Anthyam’ ponders on Death and grief through the radical lens
KG George’s filmography vide the 80’s is unarguably one of the most important contributions to Malayalam Cinema. And his sprawling oeuvre encapsulates the muck and…
Ghosts of death in Ram’s Kattradhu Thamizh
Capitalism against socialism, sciences and finances against arts and humanities, welcomed invasion of foreign languages against native tongue in the shameful verge of oblivion, cramped…
Few Malayalam Films Which Can Be Remade Into Tamil Cinema
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How Rain, sky and song-montages adds up to Maheshinte Prathikaram
Rain comes as an important leitmotif in Dileesh Pothen’s Maheshinte Prathikaram. It is camouflaged as the classiest of tropes – Love, inside the real ‘grief’….
Sophisticated Large canvas and rooted mainstream: Sachy’s modus operandi
Sachy is creating a stamp of himself in Malayalam mainstream. Look at the crop of variety he’s churning out with every passing film. I am…
Anwar Rasheed’s Trance is both exhilarating and terrorsome | Malayalam
Seas stretch far and wide into the bosom of clouds while closer to the shore, in the waters bearing scattered colours of the dusk, two…
Swapnadanam: Sensuality and psychology of this dream land
KG. George’s debut ‘Swapnadanam: Journey through a dream’ is a black and white feature. It wasn’t just compliance with contemporary technology, but the film also…
One year of Kumbalangi Nights: Diffusing Patriarchy!
The Patriarchal whimsical inside Shammy that turns into an outrageous catastrophe for the love birds, Bobby and Boby. Saji’s psychological repatriation that con-joints the dysfunctional…
Sillu Karupatti is a charming little film about love
How beautiful a soul could be? Perfect? I don’t know but yeah, some souls certainly become perfect, or love defines it perfect. Sillu Karupatti is…
Mysskin: The Serpent’s Mask
What’s in a name, you may ask. In cinema especially, where having baffling stage names is de rigueur. But die hard literature buffs might be…