The film presents a cocktail of paradoxes – of lovers who don’t love, friends who don’t understand each other, and superstitious parents who blatantly ignore all the glaring bad omens
The moustache has always been a scruffy symbol for the Malayali superstar’s macho image. With changing storylines introspecting themes of patriarchy and heroism, has facial hair of characters acquired new meanings?
In Calcutta News, there are no big speeches. Neither is there a hard-hitting, memorable climax serving as the pivot for the whole screenplay. No, this is purely an unconventional love story.
From Mammootty to Mohanlal and Prithviraj, every top star in Malayalam cinema has played a version of an alcohol-loving person. Satvik Kumar lists films that dealt with alcoholism with empathy, and even humour.
From polite nostalgic laughter to crazy giggling, these films provide all kinds of laughs. Slapstick or situational, dark or fantasy, there’s something for everyone.
As the age-old Onam film-viewing tradition moves to the small screen this year with the release of Kilometres and Kilometres, C U Soon, and Maniyarayile Ashokan, we go back 30 years to trace the hits, the misses and the disasters that made up big festival release season.