Sreenivasan could so willingly be 'our little man' because in his heart of hearts he never felt trivial or inconsequential. And to the very end he stayed that way, the shrimp who knew he was a giant. Sreehari Nair doffs his hat to the late legend.
'Farewell to the unique artist who loved like a mother and taught many things like a teacher.'
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.
The film is about a woman who will do only what she feels is right.
The two are teaming up for this latest Malayalam movie.
The film talks about small men dreaming big but doesn't fails to pull off the story.
Director Jimson Joy tries to combine an old-style narrative with so-called 'new gen' cinema in Bicycle Thieves, but fails to get it right.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
A lowdown on the Malayalam film industry.
The latest updates from Malayalam film industry.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
These films, even at their saddest, darkest and grossest, retain their sense of humour, their sense of proportion, which again is something you associate with a Malayali.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Law Point is a lethargic long drive with many low points.
The film cannot be taken seriously, says Paresh C Palicha.
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.
'It took a 75-year-old director to teach the reformist set of Facebook users that Evil is not an aberration, but something that resides in the most regular seeming of human beings,' says Sreehari Nair.