Jayaram and Priyamani play a married couple going through some tough times in their lives.
The Malayalam movie stars not Mohanlal or Mammooty, with whom he made some excellent films, but Nishan, Asif Ali, Nithya Menon and a couple of fresh faces.
Ashakal Aayiram can be celebrated for the return to form for Jayaram, who owns every scene he is in, but the film around him drags and drags, with no end in sight, notes Arjun Menon.
The soft spoken Malayalam filmmaker spoke exclusively to rediff.com, about his films and career.
Director Sibi Malayil's has given far better film than Violin.
The Malayalam film may change the fortunes of its team.
The cheeky young man who once gave me one-word answers grew into a philosophical, detached star yet remained simple and humble, never letting stardom steal his heart, notes Rediff's Shobha Warrier who first interviewed the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner in 1987.
'The film-literate public in Kerala are not happy watching run-of-the-mill movies.'
This is the third time Mammootty and director Johnny Antony had teamed up for a film.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
Most of the actors in the film seem to be sleepwalking through their parts.
Three Malayalam films will fight it out this weekend.
Malayalam film actress Nithya Menon talks about her films, dreams and more.
Oridathuoru Postmam, directed by Shaji Azeez with Kunchako Boban in the lead and Innocent in the title role, is yet another film on the father-son relationship. Wish it had kept things simple.
Apoorvaragam -- Sibi Malayil's much anticipated film is worth your time only for the effort of the youngsters, otherwise a disappointment.
The follow-up of August 1 will star its original hero Mammootty.
The actor talks about the success of Violin and Salt N' Pepper.
Siby Malayil's new film, starring Mohanlal, is not worth a watch.
Aayirathil Oruvan, directed by Sibi Malayil and written by T A Razak starring Kalabhavan Mani and Sujatha is a social drama worth a watch to feel the old world charm if not for anything else.
The film stars Jayaram and Priyamani in lead roles.
The noted actor was undergoing treatment for liver and kidney diseases.
Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a masterpiece, and like most masterpieces of the cinema, it's a great act of folly, observes Sreehari Nair.
"Every actor's life is short. It exists only between 'Action' and 'Cut'," Mohanlal once told Subhash K Jha.
100 Days of Love leaves a lot to be desired as a serious love story.
After a lifetime of showing us what it means to 'act at the top of one's bent and never hit a false note', Mammootty had the good sense, in the third act of his career, to pare down his style, become less mannered, draw directly from life. And getting a performer like that to play characters who seem 'completely dead inside', is, in my view, a betrayal of his legacy, his still-burning ambition, and his still-sharp feelers, observes Sreehari Nair.
The film cannot be taken seriously, says Paresh C Palicha.
'We like to look at a screenplay as a spiral staircase.' 'You never know what awaits at the next turning.'
As Ajith's Yennai Arindhaal releases, we look at the movies that made him a star.
Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
Actor turned director Vineeth Kumar talks about his directorial debut and his passion for films
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