From the 'khiladi' brand of movies rocking his boat to a love for starring in biopics and scripts inspired by true stories to headlining endless remakes of South Indian hits, there's a pattern to the man and his methods.
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 lyrical beauty of the songs, the exceptional frames that bind beauty and poetry make Neelavelicham a near-perfect tribute to the legendary writer who marvelled at imperfection and despised grammar as much as he hated his writing being edited, observes Divya Nair.
Do you think Kartik, a rising star with good comic timing in his movies, make a solid replacement? Or, would you have preferred Akki in the sequel as well?
What differentiates an original from a remake is class. And Priadarshan's latest offering, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, fails completely to match up to the Malayalam original.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 is a silly scary movie that knows it is a silly scary movie, observes Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma lists 10 knockout performances from the star.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the forthcoming films, and also looks back at how successful this genre has been in the past.
Two Malayalam stalwarts fight it out at the box office.
The Malayalam film has has some exciting moments.
Nagavalli, the remake of the Kannada film Aptarakshaka is eminently watchable on account of its very good screenplay, fine performances and direction besides sound technical values.
Shivaji Ganesan's eldest son talks about his Tamil production company and the latest venture, Ansal, that it is making.
Shooting for the Telugu remake of the Tamil movie, Chandramukhi is likely to begin after May 10.
The soundtrack of Bhool Bhulaiyaa, with a winner title ditty and other silvery moments, is truly enjoyable.
Siby Malayil's new film, starring Mohanlal, is not worth a watch.
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Priyadarshan's new film, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, is not even a patch on the original Malayalam hit, Manichitrathazhu. Avoid at all costs.
When done well, these horror movies do pretty well at the box office.
Bollywood has given us quite a few suspense tales before, and many of them have done well at the box office.
Arikil Oraal had a lot of potential but fizzles out by the end.
A look at Akki's history of recycled South Indian fare.
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