'Kumbalangi Nights is a movie that respects women, but most importantly, it's a movie that loves them,' says Sreehari Nair.
Actor turned director Vineeth Kumar talks about his directorial debut and his passion for films
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry.
Malayalam actor Sharafudheen talks about the films that defined his career.
The argument that the pandemic has given a boost to streaming video is fallacious. Only three OTTs saw a rise in viewership; the others fell.
A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem by Kavalam Narayana Panicker where a hymn about nature descends into a musing about cheating, depression and death, feels Sreehari Nair.
All of us have filmi shaadi favourites. Tell us yours!
Biju Menon tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com how he transformed himself to play a 73 year old character, one of his most challenging and satisfying roles as an actor.
A look at the seven Malayalam films that scored in the first half of 2016!
What Director Mahesh Narayanan captures perfectly in C U Soon is the texture of our online conversations, observes Sreehari Nair.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Malayalam film industry.
The film has a problem with pacing and lags a few times but the director uses these moments to add meat to the characters.
A wide range of Malayalam movies is set to hit the screens in the coming months.
God's Own Country is over-written -- characters explain everything in words when a mere change of expression would do.
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
1 by Two is a let down considering the expectations it had raised before its release
Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
'Mahesh Bhavana is a young man who is beaten up in the town's marketplace and who consequently pledges that he won't wear his slippers again, till he avenges the beating.' 'But Mahesh can't get his revenge that easily -- his punisher is off to a distant land. So what does Mahesh do? He waits. And the town waits with him. And we wait with him.' 'Maheshinte Prathikaram is one of those movies where I didn't know what hit me. I don't remember another movie -- at least in recent times -- that I surrendered to with such happiness,' says Sreehari Nair.
Bangalore Days director Anjali Menon discusses her films and more.
'If you can tell the quality of a movie-watching experience, only and only by referring to set standards, you *aren't really* going to the movies,' argues Sreehari Nair.
There's a lot happening in Bollywood, Hollywood and world cinema this year.
Malayalam film audiences, who had spent close to two decades waiting for something truly interesting to watch at the movies, seem to be finally getting their due.
'Sudhir Mishra takes us into the dreams and fears of our politicians, into their self-deceiving pitches, and he shows us their demons and angels,' says Sreehari Nair.
'This is a movie made with this gaze fixed on its immediate well-wishers, while at the same time it squints hard looking for those swaying back and forth on the fence,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.
Showbiz shaadis that made headlines in 2014.
'2016 was the age of convenience for Hindi movies; of down pat effrontery and planned feeling triumphing over attempts to discern something complexly beautiful,' says Sreehari Nair.
