Ente Mazha, the Malayalam musical-family film led by actors Manoj K Jayan, Nedumudi Venu and Narian, is ready for release, director Sunil Subramanian tells Silverscreen India.
Ahead of the release of Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham, the makers shared a video byte of late actor Nedumudi Venu speaking about the film. The National Award-winning actor will be seen in the role of a Zamorin king in the Mohanlal-starrer, which is set to release in theatres on December 2.
Nedumudi Venu, the legendary Malayalam actor who acted in over 500 films, passed away on Monday at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He was the recipient of three National Awards and six Kerala State Awards.
Nedumudi Venu, the National Award-winning actor who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry, passed away on Monday at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.
Nedumudi Venu is all set to reprise his role from Indian in the sequel. He will return to the franchise as CBI Officer Krishnamurthy.
Sunday marks the National Award-winning Malayalam actor Nedumudi Venu’s first birth anniversary, after his demise in October 2021. In a career spanning five decades, Venu has acted in over 500 films. He died at the age of 73 from post-Covid-19 complications and stomach-related ailments.
Siddique (who plays Kunjali’s uncle), the late Nedumudi Venu (who plays the Sampoothiri) and Hareesh Peradi (who plays the Sampoothiri’s military advisor) all deliver strong performances in the film.The way the film makes Kunjali’s close relationship with his mother (played by Suhasini Maniratnam) the cornerstone of his early life makes it ridiculously easy to predict the turn the story takes next.
In a scene on a concert stage, while talking to an NRI family about Skype classes that Iyer frowns upon, Menon lights Vembu Iyer in blinding red almost suggesting that the mridangam exponent is from a different world, different era.The usually irenic Carnatic singer (ostensibly playing himself but not named in the film) has struck a dissonant chord with a senior mridangam player – Palakkad Vembu Iyer (Nedumudi Venu) – and is trying to find the right words to lay the purist off his future concerts.
Daivame Kai Thozhaam, a comedy-drama, is centered around a married couple who are perpetually at loggerheads as they take each other for granted. One day, the God almighty (Nedumudi Venu) decides to spend a few days in Unnayipuram, a fictitious village in Kerala, and he chooses Krishna Kumar (Jayaram), a gram-sevak of Unnayipuram, to be his host.
In case you are wondering if lack of education and employment opportunities are the reasons as to why youngsters subscribe to this fan frenzy, there is a retired ISRO scientist, played by Nedumudi Venu, who has resolved to spend his post-retirement life selling tickets at theatres screening Vijay films and working tirelessly for the superstar’s welfare. There is a lengthy, romantic dialogue that he mouths on why it’s better to idolise reel heroes than worship a conventional god because the reel hero does everything that a god does, and better, the former is visible and mobile, unlike the stone idols.
National Award winning director Anil Radhakrishna Menon’s third film has a curious title – Lord Livingstone 7000 Kandi. It has Kunchacko Boban, Nedumudi Venu, Chemban Vinod, Reenu Mathews and Sudheer Karamana playing the lead roles.
As films return to cinemas more, and less to OTT, box office numbers seem to have experienced spikes. While Kartik Aaryan-starrer Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 has earned around Rs 14 crores on its opening day, thereby making it the second film with the highest opening post the pandemic for a Hindi film, Kangana Ranaut’s Dhaakad has only garner Rs 50 lakh.
A young actor confined to eye-candy characters, we might never know if she is a good actor ﹣the word good might be stretching it too much ﹣or at least, a decent performer who would not make one want to turn off their screen.The expression of love, including its most fleeting variety, deserves some flourish on the screen, and Sivan, who brought to screen the naive beauty of first love in Anathabhadram and Urumi, must certainly know that.
The filmmaker reveals that she first pitched a different story to Mammootty and he, in turn, put her in touch with Unda’s writer Harshad, to write the screenplay. “We began working on that project, which was a large-scale film.Ahead of the film’s release, Ratheena speaks to Silverscreen India about how the project took off, her working experience and more. “Puzhu cannot be classified as a film belonging to one specific genre.
From Rajinikanth’s Tamil song Amma Endru from Mannan (1992), where he tends to his differently-abled mother, to the legendary dialogue “Mere Paas Maa Hai” (I have mother with me) from the Hindi film Deewaar, mothers have played a significant role in establishing the strength of familial ties.Directed by Renuka Shahane, the film explores motherhood, the pressures of a patriarchal society, and what it does for women who want to be more than just a mother.
The 26th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, was kickstarted in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. Actor Bhavana Menon, who recently announced her comeback to Malayalam cinema, was a surprise guest at the festival’s inaugural ceremony.
Unlike Neerad’s Iyobinte Pusthakam that was crushed by its own weight, Bheeshma Parvam is confident kitsch, a solid guilty pleasure, unafraid of being inter/extratextual, without a larger sociological context, headlined by a glorious Mammootty, who plays Michael.In Bheeshma Parvam, Neerad takes to the audience the emotional weight of the situations Michael navigates alongside the delights of mass cinema.
Bheeshma Parvam, the Malayalam film set for release on Thursday, will have elements of the Mahabharata, lead actor Mammooty said during a press meet in Kochi, on Monday.
Aaraattu, the Mohanlal-starrer that was released on Friday, has collected Rs 17.80 crore at the global box office in its first three days, the actor shared on social media on Tuesday.
After being postponed several times, the 26th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, will be held in Thiruvananthapuram from March 18 to 25, 2022, Kerala state Culture Minister Saji Cherian announced on Friday.
Indian cinemas finally seem to recuperate from the pandemic-induced blow after multiple films take the theatrical route, and make decent collections if not extraordinary.
After a two-year wait, Mohanlal-starrer Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham released in theatres worldwide on Thursday. Producer Antony Perumbarvoor had announced on social media that Marakkar would release in five languages – Malayalam Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada – on 4100 screens across the world. As many as 16,000 shows are scheduled per day. In Kerala, Marakkar is showing in 626 out of 631 screens.
After much strife, filmmaker Shankar and Lyca Productions, the banner backing Indian 2, his upcoming sequel to the 1996 Kamal Haasan-starrer, have patched up their differences and smoothed the way for work on the upcoming film to restart.
Aascar Ravichandran, the Tamil producer, is moving the Madras High Court against director Shankar and producer Jayantilal Gada over the Hindi remake of the Tamil film Anniyan, a report in The Times of India stated.
Summer of ’92: Hasya, a segment in Navarasa, the recently-released Netflix Tamil anthology, has been termed ‘casteist’ by musician and activist TM Krishna and filmmaker Leena Manimekalai on social media.