Malayalam cinema: Marketing teams go for innovative ideas,   rope in influencers to promote films

Malayalam cinema: Marketing teams go for innovative ideas, rope in influencers to promote films

Shane Nigam wonders if he could have Rashmika Mandanna as his co-star. While film directors Aby Treesa Paul and Anto Jose Periera, and producer Sandra Thomas hem and haw, Anagha LK walks in and, without batting an eyelid, Shane says he feels she would be the best. The same goes for another role in which […]

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Malayalam cinema: Marketing teams go for innovative ideas,   rope in influencers to promote films

Malayalam cinema: Marketing teams go for innovative ideas, rope in influencers to promote films

Shane Nigam wonders if he could have Rashmika Mandanna as his co-star. While film directors Aby Treesa Paul and Anto Jose Periera, and producer Sandra Thomas hem and haw, Anagha LK walks in and, without batting an eyelid, Shane says he feels she would be the best. The same goes for another role in which […]

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Malayalam cinema 2023: Of hits and misses The year of Mammootty

Malayalam cinema 2023: Of hits and misses The year of Mammootty

Malayalam cinema 2023 has seen a bitter-sweet year. Proving the doomsayers wrong, movie-goers were back in cinemas. So, the pandemic had not killed cinemas. Hallelujah! But, before the trumpets are blown, there is more to explore. All is not rosy as the last frames of the year fade into the sunset. Kunchacko Boban, Narain, Lal, […]

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Malayalam cinema in 2023: International acclaim, debutant directors and Mammooty’s magic on-screen

Malayalam cinema in 2023: International acclaim, debutant directors and Mammooty’s magic on-screen

Malayalam cinema 2023 has seen a bitter-sweet year. Proving the doomsayers wrong, movie-goers were back in cinemas. So, the pandemic had not killed cinemas. Hallelujah! But, before the trumpets are blown, there is more to explore. All is not rosy as the last frames of the year fade into the sunset. Kunchacko Boban, Narain, Lal, […]

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Malayalam film director Nithish Sahadev’s Falimy is about a dysfunctional family with Basil Joseph Manju Pillai

Malayalam film director Nithish Sahadev’s Falimy is about a dysfunctional family with Basil Joseph Manju Pillai

Film director Nithish Sahadev on the location of Falimy. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT There is a spelling mistake in the title of the Malayalam movie Falimy, but that is deliberate, explains debutant Nithish Sahadev about his film. “It is a clue to the error in the ways and thinking of a dysfunctional family. We […]

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‘Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil’, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Basil Joseph, goes on floors

‘Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil’, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Basil Joseph, goes on floors

Prithviraj Sukumaran and Basil Joseph | Photo Credit: therealprithvi/@instagram and ibasiljoseph/@Instagram Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey director Vipin Das is next helming Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil. Starring his last film’s lead Basil Joseph, the new project will also feature Prithviraj Sukumaran in a lead role. The film, which will also mark Tamil actor Yogi Babu’s Malayalam debut, […]

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‘Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham’ movie review: A feel-good film set in a pandemic-hit coastal village

‘Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham’ movie review: A feel-good film set in a pandemic-hit coastal village

A still from ‘Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham’ Stories of young, struggling entrepreneurs are a familiar theme in Malayalam cinema. Now, the pandemic-related challenges faced by small-time businesses in Kerala are getting space in movies. Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham, starring Basil Joseph in the lead, narrates the hardships faced by a youngster during the stringent lockdown in Kerala. Helmed […]

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‘Pookkaalam’ movie review: A feel-good family entertainer with a novel theme

‘Pookkaalam’ movie review: A feel-good family entertainer with a novel theme

A still from ‘Pookkaalam’ | Photo Credit: Saregama Malayalam/YouTube Happiness is Ganesh Raj’s calling card; one would struggle to find an unhappy moment in his work. Even the biggest of crises would seem rather inconsequential when treated light-heartedly. In the world that he envisions, warm colours pop out of every other frame. Light, feel-good music […]

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Basil Joseph to play the lead in ‘Falimy’

Basil Joseph to play the lead in ‘Falimy’

Film director Basil Joseph | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Director and actor Basil Joseph will be playing the lead in the upcoming Malayalam film Falimy.  Directed by Nithish Sahadev, the film was supposed to have been produced by director Jude Anthany Joseph and Aravind Kurup, and star Antony Varghese in the lead. But after being announced […]

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‘Enkilum Chandrike’ movie review: The humour falls flat in this old-fashioned tale

‘Enkilum Chandrike’ movie review: The humour falls flat in this old-fashioned tale

A still from ‘Enkilum Chandrike’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The film’s title might have the name of a woman, but Enkilum Chandrike is about men; some, eager to get married, and others, trying hard to foil the marriage plans of one of their friends. It’s quite evident that debutant director Adithyan Chandrasekhar isn’t a […]

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