It's not every day that you see a superhero in a lungi running over cars, bashing the bad guy and saving village folk, observes Divya Nair.
The Kalyani Priyadarshan starrer is the kind of incentive superhero origin story that can alter the way such films are made in Malayalam cinema, feels Arjun Menon.
'I want the audience to smile when they see my film.'
'Some people believe that guys with muscles don't have a sense of humour.' 'We wanted to prove them wrong.'
'This movie is not a reminder of the disaster we went through. It's a reminder of how we survived it.'
The 10th edition of South Indian International Awards took place in Bengaluru over the weekend.
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
Amyra, Aahana holiday... Disha wraps up a film... Akhil shows off his muscles...
Amala makes her Hindi debut... Prithviraj shares a first look... Tovino is ready with next film...
Mamta records a radio show... Amala visits Assam... Sobhita ready with Major...
Its success script: Investing more in local content ecosystem; growing its partnership footprint.
Local superheroes and villains, award winners and hopefuls, a fan favourite from a galaxy far, far away and wizards and witches of Hogwarts regale and rejoice on OTT this week.
'Just the fact that the biggest language at the box office was Telugu and not Hindi is startling.'
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
Dear Friend is for those who idealised Dil Chahta Hai all out of proportion, and then warmed up to the premise that friendship could be a lot more complicated, and transient, observes Sreehari Nair.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
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