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Great First Half, Silly Second Half: Kammara Sambhavam

Posted on March 31, 2020May 20, 2020
by Vishal Menon

The 2018 Malayalam film, starring Dileep and Siddharth, starts off as a compelling portrait of a brutal traitor. In the intentionally repetitive second half, the ‘truth’ gets whitewashed into a biopic

Flops Of Glory Did Terrible Marketing Do In Fazil’s Production Sundarakilladi, starring Dileep and Shalini

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5 min

Flops Of Glory: Did Terrible Marketing Do In Fazil’s Production Sundarakilladi, starr...

Posted on December 17, 2019May 9, 2020
by Vishal Menon

No one can deny the vision behind this film, and the emotions hold up even today.

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3 min

Subharathri Movie Review: An Old-Fashioned Family Drama With A Fable-Like Quality

Posted on July 8, 2019May 4, 2020
by Vishal Menon

Told with an inherent innocence, the film has a way of making us willingly overlook its archaic filmmaking style and clunky dialogues

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4 min

11 Malayalam Movie Tropes We Would Love To Live Without

Posted on May 22, 2019May 15, 2020
by Neelima Menon

Heroes in slow-mo, super-long THANKS cards, leads in their diapers, double-meaning comedy…will Malayalam cinema ever look beyond these ideas?

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5 min

‘The Stage Can Never Betray You’: Nadirsha

Posted on April 3, 2019May 15, 2020
by Neelima Menon

Fresh off the success of two hits, director Nadirsha talks about the different forms of comedy he has been a part of, his new film Mera Naam Shaji, the secular angle in Amar Akbar Antony and the uniquely distinctive taste of the Malayali audience

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3 min

Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel Movie Review: A Badly Written Thriller That’s Not ...

Posted on February 21, 2019May 4, 2020
by Vishal Menon

With Balan Vakeel, Dileep is back to playing the flawless hero figure who can do no wrong. And the film becomes a lifeless bore because of that.

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5 min

Kammara Sambhavam Movie Review

Posted on April 15, 2018May 9, 2020
by Baradwaj Rangan

An overlong, but cleverly written and entertaining meta-masala movie, starring Dileep and Siddharth

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