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Halal Love Story Trailer Promises a Fun Ride Full of Laughter

The trailer of Halal Love Story is out and it takes us on a journey of a group of cinema lovers trying to make their own ‘halal’ film. Directed by Zakariya Mohammed, who rose to fame with Sudani From Nigeria, the film stars Indrajith Sukumaran, Joju George, Sharaf U Dheen, Grace Antony, Parvathy Thiruvothu, and Soubin […]

‘Kaithi’, ‘Jersey’, ‘Trance’, And ‘Super 30’ Make It To The International Indian Toronto Film Festival, 2020

BY Aparajitha Balu On

On Monday, the IIFFT (International Indian Film Festival Toronto) board announced the list of films that would be premiering at the 8th edition of their annual festival to be held virtually from Aug 9-15, 2020. The list of six films comprised an Indo-American short Padmavyuha and the recent popular Indian docu-film Batch of 2020 – Beyond Degrees & Certificates along with Karthi starrer Kaithi (Tamil), Nani starrer Jersey (Telugu), Hrithik Roshan starrer Super 30 (Hindi) and Fahad Faasil starrer Trance (Malayalam).

Team ‘Sudani From Nigeria’ To Boycott National Film Award Ceremony In Protest Against CAA

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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.

Android Kunjappan Version 5.25 Review: Suraj Venjarammood Is Terrific In This Excellent Off-Kilter Comedy

BY Aswathy Gopalakrishnan On

Few films have tried to explore how our parents’ generation are coping in the digital age, of relationships kept alive by social media and Skype, where the line between real and synthetic is dangerously pale.  In Android Kunjappan Ver 5. 25, debut director and acclaimed production designer Ratheesh Balakrishnan creates a comically heightened imagination of a situation where a lonely and stubborn old man develops an intimate friendship with a robot in whom he starts seeing a reflection of his own son.

Vikruthi Review: Suraj Venjarammood Is Excellent In This Affecting Drama About The Ugly Side Of Human Nature

BY Aswathy Gopalakrishnan On

When seen from a distance, Samir is one of the many men who lead a double life — as an extrovert in the virtual world who feels an urge to stay in touch with a crowd of strangers and friends, and as an introvert who can’t speak to the woman he likes in real life.Emcy’s film humanises him by looking at his private life, where he is a sincere young man who wants to lead an uncomplicated life.

Jallikattu Is Completely A Lijo Jose Pellissery Film: Writer S Hareesh

BY Aswathy Gopalakrishnan On

Hareesh, the winner of  Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018 is back in his residence in Kottayam after attending the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where the world premiere of Jallikattu, the film adaptation of his short story Maoist, took place on September 8.The film adaptation of Maoist is action-oriented, with few instances of dialogues.  Jallikkattu completely belongs to Lijo, says Hareesh, who co-authored the screenplay with his friend Jayakumar.

Kumbalangi Nights Review: A Moving Portrait Of Broken People And An Unfinished House

BY Aswathy Gopalakrishnan On

Debutant filmmaker Madhu C Narayanan’s Kumbalangi Nights is centered on four brothers who live in an unfinished house without a door, on an islet on Kochi’s backwaters that the rest of the world uses as a ground to dump pets they can no longer keep, and human waste.Writer Syam Pushkaran, despite his ability to zoom into people and situations like no one else in Malayalam cinema at the moment, often plays to the gallery, resorting to the language of pop-culture that reduces the film into a coffee-table book.

Weekend Watch: Dhilluku Dhuddu 2, Kumbalangi Nights, Yatra & The Fakir Of Venice

BY Rajeshwari Manikandan On

Produced by Vijay Chilla and Shashi Devireddy under the banner 70mm Entertainments, the film also features Jagapathi Babu, Sudheer Babu, Suhasini Maniratnam, Ashrita Vemuganti, Rao Ramesh, Anasuya Bharadwaj and Posani Krishna Murali in pivotal roles.Directed by debutant Madhu C Narayanan, the film is jointly produced by Dileesh Pothan, Syam Pushkaran, and Fahadh Faasil under the banner of Fahadh Faasil and Friends Working Class Hero.

Lucifer, Kumbalangi Nights, Jallikkattu: What To Watch Out For In 2019

BY Aswathy Gopalakrishnan On

This year, a number of major releases awaits the Malayalam film audience. Among the films lining up to hit the screens in the first two months are Nine-9, directed by Jenuse Mohammad and produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, Haneef Adeni’s Mikhael where Nivin Pauly plays the lead role, and Arun Gopi’s Irupathiyonnam Noottandu which features Pranav Mohanlal. Director Jis Joy’s Vijay Superum Pournamiyum, a remake of the Telugu superhit Pellichoopulu, will hit the screens in the second week of January. The film, a romantic-comedy, has Aishwarya Lekshmi and Asif Ali playing the lead roles.

Weekend Watch: Kaatrin Mozhi Vs Thimiru Pudichavan

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Having missed its allotted date – November 6 – due to the big Deepavali release Sarkar, the film was called out for cutting the queue by producer of Kaatrin Mozhi G Dhananjayan and Nakul, the actor of Sei – the other movie that was supposed to release this week.Starring Vijay Anthony as a cop and Nivetha Pethuraj and Daniel Balaji in lead roles, the film is an action drama written and directed by Ganesha.

Weekend Watch: Saamy Square, Varathan, Mangalyam Thanthunanena, Manto Are The Major Releases

BY Rajeshwari Manikandan On

Directed by Hari, the film is a sequel to the 2003 hit Saamy.  It features Vikram in a dual role –  he reprises the role of Aarusaamy, a rigid police officer battling corruption from the original film and the second character will be a younger Vikram, who too is a police officer.Directed by Narayan Singh of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha fame, the film narrates the tale of a common man and his struggle to pay the exorbitant electricity bills slapped by a private power distribution company.  The film is set in a small town in Uttarakhand where people are so used to frequent power cuts that they constantly joke about it.