Feminism Takes Flight: Uyare, My Favourite Malayalam Film
While perfection is unattainable, Pallavi Raveendran is one of the few female characters who comes ever so close to perfection, simply because of her imperfections
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Six Female Characters From Malayalam Films Who Would Make Great BFFs
All of us want to live in the shoes of certain protagonists, but how often have you felt that if a certain character was your BFF, there’d be more spice to life, asks Meera Venugopal
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
Tangentially Looking At Uyare: To Fly Above Demons And Angels
Most often films where disfigured characters appear, the camera tends either to dwell upon it in the case of negative or villain characters, or flinches away from it in the case of heroic characters. It is as if any kind of physical deformity, disfigurement or blemish is a manifestation of the true nature of the character
Top 10 Malayalam Songs Of April
Songs from Athiran, Uyare, Oronnonnara Pranayakadha and more – we recap the best of Malayalam music from last month
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
We Are The Gods Of Our Characters: Writer Sanjay
Before the release of Uyare, starring Parvathy, Sanjay, of the Bobby-Sanjay duo, talks about the inherent patriarchy that leads to acid attacks, his writing process with his brother, what their characters mean to him and why the heroines in Malayalam films are no longer referred to as ‘edi’ or ‘podi’
