Love, a thriller directed by Khalid Rahman of Anuraga Karikkin Vellam and Unda, is a grim, flagrantly mediocre film made up of an excess of macro close-ups and slow-motion motion shots used to stretch the narrative out to clock the feature film length.The Malayalam film industry, crippled by the year-long lockdown is in dire need for a revival, but there isn’t a lack of good content for a viewer, thanks to digital platforms.
As Unda (Bullets), a human drama set in India’s red corridor, directed by Khalid Rahman and starring Mammootty, is set to become one of the biggest critical and commercial successes of 2019, screenwriter Harshad talks to Silverscreen. in about the making of the film, its political undertone and his career as an indie filmmaker.
Mammootty is currently shooting in Wayanad for his upcoming film Unda. Directed by Khalid Rahman of Anuraga Karikkin Vellam fame, the movie will see the actor in the role of a sub inspector.
In Khalid Rahman’s directorial debut, a man discovers the taste of unadulterated selfless romance at a later stage in life. The narrative is charming, thanks to the innate ordinariness of its characters and the situations they are caught in.The film proceeds semi-realistically, with minimum melodrama and a lot of relate-able situations. The changes that come over Raghu, after he begins the spate of phone conversations with Anu, proceeds in a slow pace.
The conflict between the crew of the upcoming Malayalam film Thallumaala and the residents of HMT Colony in Kalamassery has been resolved. Residents of the locality had earlier complained about the dumping of food waste by the crew.
Malayalam film Love, starring Rajisha Vijayan and Shine Tom Chacko, has been slated to release in theatres in the Gulf on October 15 with Covid-19 related safety measures in place. It will become the first Indian film to release in cinemas post lockdown, producer Ashiq Usman posted on social media, on Wednesday.
This film, directed by debutante Manu Ashokan, is powered by three performances, of Parvathy as a young woman whose ambitions couldn’t be burned by an acid attack that permanently distorts her face, of Asif Ali who brilliantly portrays the complex psyche of a toxic partner in a relationship, and of Siddique who plays a father who stands rock-solid beside his daughter even as the world turns against her.
Zakariya and Muhsin Parari, the director and screenwriter respectively of Malayalam film Sudani From Nigeria, will boycott the national film award ceremony which will be held in Delhi on December 23. Sudani From Nigeria won the award for the best Malayalam film at the national Film awards. Their decision is in protest against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
A group of indie filmmakers has launched a social media campaign against the International Film Festival Of Kerala (IFFK), alleging that the festival’s film selection committee has been flouting rules and rejecting films without viewing them. On Facebook page, Reform The IFFK, the filmmakers say that they were going to file e legal petition against the film festival to get the current selection lists of Indian and Malayalam films cancelled. They demand that the Academy to reconstitute the panels and make fresh and fair selections. The filmmakers also allege that the Chalachitra Academy was favouring commercial films over independent arthouse films.
The young man, pushed around and subjected to heinous casteist harassment at work, speaks in a tone of weird self-pity (“I joined the police because I wanted some respect”), without the slightest hint of anger. In the final moments, the film flutters between reality and a kind of absurd comedy – which is, nevertheless, thoroughly enjoyable – echoing the moral of an old fable that any kind of crisis can be overcome if people worked together.
This weekend, Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu Odu Raja, Suttu Pudika Utharavu and Game Over (in Telugu and Hindi too) release in Tamil, Unda in Malayalam, and Khamoshi in Hindi.
Goodwill Entertainment, the production company behind films like Kasaba and Annmariya Kalippilaanu, has announced three films with Mammootty this year. The news was announced on Easter day.
Mammootty is set to collaborate with writer Haneef Adeni for a third time, for the action drama Ameer, directed by Vinod Vijayan. The film is set in Dubai, and features Mammootty as a don.
At 67, Muhammad Kutty Paniparambil Ismail, or Mammootty, is working on more films than any of his contemporary stars in the south. He has six films – Peranbu, Yatra, Maamaankam, Madhura Raja, Pathinettam Padi and Unda – currently scheduled for release. This, at a time when even Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, Ajith and Vijay release only one film a year.
In Ranjith Shankar’s Ramante Eden Thottam, Malini (Anu Sithara), a married woman with a child, falls in love with a widower, Raman (Kunchakko Boban), and the film, with the help of Madhu Neelakantan’s romantic camerawork and Bijibal’s music, celebrates this ‘scandalous’ affair. In the director’s Punyalan Agarbathies, the plot revolves around the protagonist, Joy Thakkolkaran (Jayasurya), who is waging an exhausting battle against the investor-hostile political and bureaucratic mechanism in the state, hell-bent on ruining his dream industrial project.
It grossed over Rs 12 crores in its first week and became the fastest Malayalam film to gross over Rs 50 crore worldwide when it reached that landmark in just 40 days.State award winner Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s second film, Ozhivu Divasathe Kali (An Offday Game) is a brilliant film that starts with a slow pace and gradually culminates in a nail-biting finish.
Movie: Unda Banner: Movie Mill in association with Gemini Studios Story & Direction: Khalidh Rahman Produced By: Krishnan Sethukumar DOP: Sajith Purushan Music: Prashanth Pillai Screenplay: Harshad Art Director: Sabu Mohan Action Director: Shyam Kaushal Production Controller: Badusha Edited By: Nishadh Yusuf Makeup: Ronex Xavier Costume Designer: Mashar Hamsa Audiography: Vishnu Govind & Sreeshankar Sync […]
Movie: Unda Banner: Movie Mill in association with Gemini Studios Story & Direction: Khalidh Rahman Produced By: Krishnan Sethukumar DOP: Sajith Purushan Music: Prashanth Pillai Screenplay: Harshad Art Director: Sabu Mohan Action Director: Shyam Kaushal Production Controller: Badusha Edited By: Nishadh Yusuf Makeup: Ronex Xavier Costume Designer: Mashar Hamsa Audiography: Vishnu Govind & Sreeshankar Sync […]
Directed by Omar Lulu, the film is a romantic comedy produced by Ousepachan Vaalakuzhy under Ousepachan Movie House. It narrates the romance of two high school students, and stars Priya Prakash Warrier, the actor who became popular after a video of her wink went viral on the internet. Noorin Sherif plays the other lead.
The protagonist of Allu Ramendran, directed by debutante Bilahari, is a nondescript police constable, Ramachandran/Ramendran (Kunchacko Boban) caught in a professional and personal crisis, thanks to an unknown enemy who has been regularly puncturing the police jeep that he drives.Like a mediocre item dance sequence (starring Neeraj Madhav) that falls into the narrative without warning or purpose, and the numerous flat comic scenes set inside the police station starring Salim Kumar who hams up.
This week’s major Tamil releases are Vantha Rajavathan Varuven, Sarvam Thala Mayam and Peranbu. In Hindi Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, and in Malayalam Allu Ramendran will hit the screens. There are no major releases in Telugu.
Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven
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