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Makal is quite spectacularly difficult to sit through

  • Posted on April 30, 2022
  • by Vishal Menon
Even with all the effort one takes to be prepared for a particular kind of film you know is meant for a particular kind of audience, Makal is quite spectacularly difficult to sit through
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Trailer Talk: Makal Marks the Comeback of Meera Jasmine

  • Posted on March 17, 2022
  • by Team FC
The film marks the reunion of Jayaram and Sathyan Anikad, the combo that gave several hits in the 90s
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How Ilaiyaraaja Reshaped His Music With Modern Directors

  • Posted on June 2, 2021June 4, 2021
  • by Ashutosh Mohan
The music in Illaiyaraaja’s collaborations with directors like Bala, Balki, Kamal Haasan, Prakash Raj and Mysskin isn’t about making independent hits, which could bring audiences to the theatre. This is music that captures abstract ideas in a story and makes them evocative by converting them to sounds
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Jazzy Gifts: Twenty Everyday Malayalam Songs That Outlived Their Movies
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Jazzy Gifts: 20 Everyday Malayalam Songs That Outlived Their Movies

  • Posted on July 16, 2020July 16, 2020
  • by Vishal Menon
An unforgettable Laxmikant-Pyarelal number, THE song that made actor Krishnakumar a household face and that Ilaiyaraaja hit that’s not from his Sathyan Anthikad phase… here’s a playlist comprising songs you know better than the films they belong to.
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Evolution Of Comedy In Malayalam Cinema: Later Years, Sathyan-Sreenivasan and Siddique-Lal

  • Posted on April 22, 2019May 15, 2020
  • by Neelima Menon
The exodus of artistes from the world of mimicry really started from the millennium. It was also the time Dileep was emerging as a solo hero, along with directors like Rafi Mecartin, JohnyAntony, Thaha and comedians like Salim Kumar, Harisree Asokan
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The Imperfectionist: Antiheroes of Mohanlal

  • Posted on March 16, 2019May 15, 2020
  • by Vishal Menon
Before Mohanlal breaks bad in Prithviraj’s Lucifer, releasing later this month, a flashback to his characters that thrived in a morally-ambiguous world
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The Problem With The Progressive Heroines in Sathyan Anthikad’s Films

  • Posted on January 21, 2019May 15, 2020
  • by Neelima Menon
From Bhavana to Vaidehi, from Daisy to Salomi, heroines of the veteran director’s films have always been bold…but never bolder than the hero
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‘When Films Have A Connection To Life, They Are Remembered’: Sathyan Anthikad

  • Posted on January 3, 2019May 11, 2020
  • by Neelima Menon
There is no connection between box office success and great cinema, says the veteran director as he talks about making his beautifully ordinary films in the age of social media
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