'I noticed the audience warming up to The Blueberry Hunt at different points. The surprise was the reaction from the aam aadmi, the common man. They loved the film!' Director Anup Kurian discusses his film.
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.
Tamaar Padaar is a below average, barely watchable film.
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.
KPAC Lalitha's specialty was evoking on screen people that the audience felt they knew intimately, and evoking them through telling details that tore down the boundary between the audience and the performer, observes Sreehari Nair.
Here's the lowdown from the Malayalam film industry.
Rasputin is long-delayed, and not meant for today's times, says Paresh C Palicha.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Mohanlal's Loham is not original at all, warns Paresh C Palicha.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry.
Aseem Chhabra lists the best non-Hindi language films he watched in 2020, with the hope that they will have a wider reach in the new year.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
Get your lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry, right here!
'People have asked me about making a (Baaghi) series and I said that part two and three will only be made if part one is liked by people.' Director Sabbir Khan talks about his latest film.
Jayraj's Camel Safari fails to connect with the youth at whom it was aimed to.
Only the hardcore Mohanlal fans will like Mr Fraud which is otherwise an uninteresting film.
Ivide tries to tackle a lot of things but ends up satisfying none.
Sharmila Nair's campaign '18 Shades of Black' is inspiring Indian women to talk about the restrictions they faced while growing up and encouraging people to find solutions.
Every film that Sriram Raghavan makes is a compendium of ideas and sensations that tickle him. Trying to remake a Sriram Raghavan film is like getting excited by somebody else's goosebumps, observes Sreehari Nair.
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry.
A traumatic medical emergency drove physician Dr Devi, of General Hospital soap fame, to run for public office in New York.
Meet Srihari Sathe. Producer. Director. Professor.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
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Pattam Pole is unconventionally bold with the way it deals with the issue of live-in relationship.
Like many such cases, this case too would have remained under wraps had the survivor not exposed the villains and the crime they had commited.
Siddharth Chauhan, winner of the Satyajit Ray Award
Karma Cartel director Vinod Bharathan gives us an insight into his style of filmmaking.
Sreehari Nair could not put up with turgid and self-serious ones like Super Deluxe and Gully Boy. His list of favourite Indian movies of 2019 contains just five names.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'We have won our political freedom, we have liberalised our economy and now it's time to liberate our minds also. That is why this film.' Director Ketan Mehta lists his reasons for making Rang Rasiya.
Swargathekkaal Sundaram is one more addition to the heap of films that leave hardly anything to be remembered,
'Oraalppokkam is open to interpretation and therein lies its appeal.'
'In the 30 years since the Ayodhya movement began, the RSS has created a generation of Hindus who are the mirror image of those fanatic Muslims who take to the streets at the slightest, even imagined, 'insult to Islam,' argues Jyoti Punwani.
A cow that speaks, a question on patriarchy and the story of a 17th-century poet - Sanskrit filmmakers are finding new ways to revive the 'dying' language.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
