Telugu actors Venkatesh Daggubati and his nephew Rana Daggubati are set to team up for the first time for Rana Naidu, an upcoming Netflix web series, the streaming service announced on Wednesday.
Mohanlal, the Malayalam actor, announced his upcoming film titled 12th MAN on Twitter on Monday. The film will be directed by Jeethu Joseph and produced by Antony Perambavoor under the banner Aashirvad Cinemas.
Global online database IMDb on Saturday unveiled the list of most popular Indian films and web series of 2021, and so far, Vijay-starrer Master tops the list.
Raghu, the Malayalam actor who rose to fame with his debut film Mela (1980), died in Kochi on Tuesday morning. He was 60.
Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham the Malayalam film starring Mohanlal in the lead role, which was scheduled to release on May 13, will release in the theatres worldwide on August 12, the actor announced on Tuesday.
The Film Exhibitors United Organisation of Kerala (FEUOK) on Monday rubbished reports stating that the organisation had sought a ban on actor Fahadh Faasil due to his decision of releasing films on streaming platforms.
Malayalam actor Nivin Pauly’s next film has been titled Thaaram, the actor announced on social media on Sunday.
Mohanlal, the Malayalam actor, started the shooting of his directorial debut Barroz: Guardian of D’Gama’s Treasure. The film is written by Jijo Punnoose.
Mohanlal, the Malayalam actor who will be seen next in the Malayalam film Drishyam 2, confirmed on social media on Monday that he will soon start working on his directorial debut Barroz: Guardian of D’Gama’s Treasure.
MK Arjunan, the Malayalam music composer fondly known as Arjunan Master, died in April at 84. Arjunan Master made his debut in playback music composing through Karuthapournami (1968) and created his best work in the 1970s, when he composed numerous soulful melodies that have outlived the films they were featured in. When he won the Kerala State Film Award for music composition for Bhayanakam in 2018, many expressed disbelief that it was Master’s first state award in his career that spans five decades.
During the film’s release in 2019, NRC became a national issue after the final list of NRC came out in Assam with around 19 lakh people left out of citizenship by the state, and with rising protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Baidya once again pitched the script, but it was rejected again.
On Monday, lead actor Mohanlal began shooting for B Unnikrishnan’s Aaraattu, an action thriller set in Neyyattinkara and Palakkad. Aaraattu also stars Shraddha Srinath as an upright IPS officer. (Full interview here).
Actors Vikrant Massey, Sanya Malhotra, and Bobby Deol are set to star in the upcoming crime thriller Love Hostel.
When Madhuri (Tanushree Ghosh), a former B-grade Hindi movie actress, is put through brutal abuse by her husband, Ajay Kurien (Murali Gopi, who’s also the scriptwriter), or when Vishnu (Indrajith), a rag-picker, stands helpless in the face of a financial trouble he might never be able to resolve, the film doesn’t pause to empathise with them.
As the cops starts to grill the parents, who look distraught and seemingly incapable of committing a crime of such brutality, the film poses to the audience a complex moral and ethical riddle.The film’s treatment of its child characters is especially important because one of the scenes from the film is, accidentally or by design, reminiscent of an image from the recent public memory, connected to the brutal murder of a child in the hands of his stepfather.
Television isn’t perfect – not even David Tennant and some clever use of Queen songs can be as good as Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s writing – but it’s a pretty awesome way to tell stories.Sure, I will watch it – I mean, who wouldn’t watch Meryl Streep play Aunt March – but two hours of Meryl Streep will never be as good as the book. A TV show though?
In a first, actor-director-lyricist Dhanush has turned singer for a Malayalam film. The 36-year-old actor has sung a song for actor Shajon’s debut directorial Brother’s Day, which is headlined by Prithviraj. ‘Nenjodu Vinaa’ is composed by Kerala-based band, 4 Musics, which shot to fame through Priyadarshan’s Oppam.
The official word is out from Lyca Productions. Its next is Mafia, directed by Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru fame Karthick Naren, and starring Arun Vijay, Prasanna and Priya Bhavani Shankar. The film starts shoot on July 6, Karthick told Silverscreen.
When the film becomes India’s official Oscar entry, cash-strapped and shy Issaak has to take it to Los Angeles and sell it to the Academy members.The American sales agent, hired to sell the film to the Academy members, mistreats Issaak, humiliates him for his poverty and asks him to get out of the country and never return.
Sathyaraj may star in Malayalam director Jeethu Joesph’s upcoming Tamil film with Jyotika and Karthi. Reports indicate the two play siblings in the film. According to a report in Cinema Express, Sathyaraj has been roped in to play the father of the characters essayed by Jyotika and Karthi. Talking to Silverscreen, director Jeethu Joseph refused to confirm or deny the news. While he said that certain decisions regarding the casting were yet to be made final, he added that an official announcement could be expected in the coming days.
Anson Paul will be part of director Jeethu Joseph’s upcoming Tamil film, reportedly starring Jyothika and Karthi in the lead. Anson was last seen as Oviya’s boyfriend in 90 ML. He worked with director Joseph in Oozham (2016), and has just completed shoot for his portions of The Gambler.
Premam director Alphonse Puthren’s Tamil film with Kalidas Jayaram has been dropped, say reports. The director is currently working on a fresh script in Tamil.
Mohanlal will play the lead in the Film Employees Federation of Kerala’s (FEFKA) upcoming film, directed by Jeethu Joseph.
Although the film succeeds in making a lucid character study, it doesn’t work so much as a social commentary that it attempts to be, thanks to a second half that unfolds entirely inside a court room where the proceedings are uni-dimensional, revealing nothing other than the wounded pride of a senior lawyer who thought he was invincible, and the obvious fact that it’s a case of frame-up by the police.