Malayalam Features
Seven Children’s Films In Malayalam Available Online
Fantasies to adventure, there’s always a good children’s film that the entire family can enjoy together.
Six Mohanlal Scenes That Are Guaranteed To Break Your Heart
On the legendary actor’s 60th birthday, here are six scenes that remind us of the impact his career has had on our lives.
Shakeela, Superstardom And The Softporn Wave In 90s' Malayalam Films
Malayalam cinema today is arguably the best in the country, with viewers nationwide. Go back two decades, though, and the slender State’s biggest cinematic exports were films that celebrated the voluptuous.
Rahul Riji Nair's Survival Stories, On The Lockdown, Is On YouTube
Every short features a character who is confined in a way. Some of them mention COVID. Others exist in a timeless space — their stories could have unfolded even before the lockdown.
Gauthamante Radham, Starring Neeraj Madhav, Is On Amazon Prime Video
When Gauthaman listens to his grandma’s narrations of The Mahabharata, his hero isn’t Arjuna or Bheema. It’s Krishna, because he’s the one who gets to ride the chariot.
New Malayalam Cinema 101: 25 Recent Films With Subtitles On OTT
You’ve heard of Premam, you’ve might have seen Bangalore Days and you’re nursing a crush on Dulquer Salmaan. How about a few more movies to transform this tiny crush into a full-fledged romance with recent Malayalam cinema?
Why The Hacker In Kunchacko Boban's Anjaam Pathiraa, On SunNXT, Is Us
The hacker, played by Sreenadh Bhasi, often acquires heroic dimensions in the film, though he is not elevated to the status of the hero. He begins to look like one of us, writes Esthappan.
Varane Avashyamund Is On Netflix: A Rewind
It’s hardest to play heavy scenes in a light manner, and these actors do it marvellously. The director chooses to discard microscopic detail in favour of broad arcs and happy-making vignettes.
Lockdown Day #20: Joy Mathew’s Malayalam Film Shutter
How do you think some of our older films would fare, if their central situation is reworked to incorporate the lockdown?
Lockdown Day #15: The Fascinatingly Disorienting Sleeplessly Yours
The film is not just a dissection of the real and the unreal. It is just as good at crisscrossing that thin line between sanity and insanity.
Lockdown Day #13: Dulquer’s Road Trip In Neelakasham Pachakadal...
Shot by Girish Gangadharan, with extensive stretches in the magic hour light of dawn and dusk, the film is a living, breathing picture postcard that will have you feel the wind blowing on your face.
Day #10 of Lockdown: Ashiq Abu’s Salt N’ Pepper, On MX Player
People think claustrophobic movies such as Trapped, Room and Helen are going to be the toughest to watch at this point, but I’d argue that it is films like Salt N Pepper or Julie And Julia, which have us helplessly craving for something as primal as tasty food.
