Why Padmarajan's Mohanlal-Starrer Thoovanathumbikal Is Still Relevant
Writer-actor Anoop Menon, among the film’s biggest fans, scratches his head trying to explain the three-decade-old obsession with the classic.
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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?
Flops Of Glory: Poetry Over Prose In Bharat Bala’s Dhanush-Starrer Maryan
Just how delicious is the idea to make a film about the God of the Seas himself being taken away from water to be put right in the middle of an endless desert?
50 Films I Love: Manu Ashokan’s Uyare
Debutant director Manu Ashokan, writers Bobby and Sanjay and actor Parvathy Thiruvothu take a familiar arc and create a deeply moving and empowering story of a woman
Flops of Glory: ‘City of God’, The Other Lijo Jose Pellissery Film
As Jallikattu continues its run in the theatres, here’s another look at this pre-greatness Pellissery that people aren’t talking about enough
Thugs of Tamil Nadu: 4 Tamil Stories of Violence Across Streaming Platforms You Should ...
From Maryan to Aaranya Kandam – these films are a study of Tamil Cinema’s flirtation with violence, abductions, caste, and chaos.
Virus Director Aashiq Abu On The Dangers of ‘Lazy Filmmaking’ And Making A New Vers...
The leading Malayalam director on the “very small” Kerala industry, its unforgiving audience and undoing the mistakes of Gangster
Register Now For The PVR FC Blockbuster Screening Of Malayalam Film Virus
Register now for a special screening of Aashiq Abu’s acclaimed thriller Virus
Aashiq Abu’s ‘Virus’ Is A Superbly Crafted, And Very Human, Medical Thriller
There’s an enormous amount of dignity in the narration. No one wears makeup. The actors seem as committed as those doctors and nurses were
Revisiting Bangalore Days With Anjali Menon
The director discusses the film’s legacy, the uniqueness of the bond of cousins and why the film has such a strong non-Malayali following
Uyare Movie Review: Parvathy Is Heartbreakingly Good In A Moving Modern-Day Fairy Tale
Flying as a metaphor for women breaking away from the shackles of patriarchy isn’t something we haven’t seen before. But what sets ‘Uyare’ apart is how it’s intrinsically woven into the screenplay without feeling forced
