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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These senior actors in Malayalam cinema have reinvented themselves

These senior actors in Malayalam cinema have reinvented themselves

At 72, Vijayaraghavan is on a roll. In Pookkalam, he plays a 100-year-old protagonist who files for a divorce when he finds his wife had an extramarital affair. But in Neymar, which was released after that, he appears as a cool, colourful, loud dad to a teenager, even playing to the gallery with whistle-worthy scenes. […]

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‘Kaapa’ movie review: Prithviraj Sukumaran stars in a typical gangland drama that brims with untapped potential

‘Kaapa’ movie review: Prithviraj Sukumaran stars in a typical gangland drama that brims with untapped potential

Prithiviraj Sukumaran in ‘Kaapa’ Kaapa, in its opening scenes, throws up some intriguing possibilities. A policeman walks in with easy familiarity into a young couple’s home as a ‘routine’ visit. Soon, he lets Anand (Asif Ali) know that his wife Binu (Anna Ben) is being mistaken to be the head of a dreaded gang because […]

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