Which Malayalam film did you watch recently ?

[jinju]

oh just saw this a couple of days back (main reason being samvrutha ) - found it good (ofcourse havent seen the original and had to bear the actor/writer on screen)

u too!

yep it's a good film except that it's a blatant lift, and if only they credited the original makers.

[AravindMano]

Naalu Pennungal, worth a watch The last and longest stretch of the film is underwhelming, but overall very well directed. The second segment is very beautifully realized.

One of the segments features Mrs.Manju Kurup of Man Madan Ambu

And Kavya Madhavan is such a beauty.

[jinju]

Blessy-Lalettan's next titled 'Pranayam' (Love), shoot starts next month! Cast is interesting: Jayaprada, Anupam Kher. Seems like a nostalgic trip.

The selections this year seem to be looking up with Shaji N Karun's next scheduled to start towards the fag end of the year. Commercially, a couple of multistarrers releasing next month: Chinatown (Lal, Jayaram, Dileep) and Christian Brothers (Lal, Sureshgopi, Dileep with Supreme Star). Roshan Andrews' 'Casanova' first schedule completed. Sathyan Anthikkad n Priyadarsan films also scheduled to go on floors this year, but kicked about the Blessy film the most!

[jinju]

Naalu Pennungal, worth a watch The last and longest stretch of the film is underwhelming, but overall very well directed. The second segment is very beautifully realized.

One of the segments features Mrs.Manju Kurup of Man Madan Ambu

And Kavya Madhavan is such a beauty.

she is a competent actress Manoji. her real name is Manju Pillai.

[directhit]

oh just saw this a couple of days back (main reason being samvrutha ) - found it good (ofcourse havent seen the original and had to bear the actor/writer on screen)

u too!

ofcourse, lets put a couple of pics to substantiate, lol

[directhit]

Pranchiyettan and The Saint - a lovely lovely film



Kudos to Ranjith for always taking up new ways of narration and story line. This time the story is presented as a narrative between Mammootty and Francis the Saint. And the one liner is that the protoganist wants to change the adjective to his name; have not seen such a plotline in any recent movies.

The ways he goes about doing it, like trying to 'buy' Padmashree References that if you are in the good books of the ruling party any awards can be got (bought) only flashed Amitabh's face on screen for me. No special comedy track in the movie, nevertheless comedy was one of the main ingredient in the film. Mammookka (this time with My Thrissur slang) rocks with his dialogue delivery and expressions, not unexpected though. Portraying a guy who is a loser at most of his attempts, this is one of his best roles off late. Innocent, who is originally from Irinjaalakuda, has the next best role in the movie. Yet another very nice performance from Priyamani, wish she did more of such roles than nonsense dances in the so called masala movies.

With a wonderful message at the end, its not to anyone's surprise, this movie is one of the highest grossers of this last year

[jinju]

ofcourse, lets put a couple of pics to substantiate, lol

[Murali Srinivas]

Anoop,

You had updated only about Lal movies. Here is the latest update on Mammookka. August 15, which was supposed to hit the screens by second week of February, has been postponed to last week of March in view of the World Cup and examinations. It is scheduled to be released on 25th of March. Snap of a poster designed by a fan

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Meanwhile Mammootty has finished his next movie titled Doubles. Here he is one of the twins with Nadhiya being the other sibling. They lose their parents in an accident and they are brought up by an old man at Pondicherry. When they grew up, they form an accident help unit and they service highway accident victims. Both are not married and one day they are forced to keep a victim of a highway accident, who happens to be a girl in their home for a short while and from there the story takes a turn, it seems. It has a fair amount of Tamil film actors like YGMahendra, Suresh and Anandaraj. Though the story seems to be interesting, fans doesn’t have much hope on this. Mam’s hairstyle they say is one such deterrent. This may get released during Vishu or May 1st week. Some snaps are here. [Someone can upload the links as I am not technically well versed].

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Mams has also completed his first Kannada movie Shikkari. Its Malayalam version is also ready. They are looking at various release dates. In the interim director Jayaraj is doing a quickie with Mams. Titled “The Train”, it deals with what happened in Mumbai during the serial bomb blast in the suburban trains in July 2006. Here Mammootty comes in as the leader of the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), which deals with the situation. The shooting was held in Mumbai last month.

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There is another news. After a long gap, Mam is again doing a Telugu film. Titled Keeravani, it is a musical subject it seems and there is one Telugu hero Sharwanand who shares screen space with Mammootty. The film is already on floors at Hyderabad and it is directed by Venkat PS.

The film March 12, 1993 which marks the directorial debut of script writer Babu Janarthanan is ready to go on floors. Here Mam plays a priest by name Sadhananda Bhatt, a character hailing from Kasargode. He who is at Chennai takes up a job at Rajasthan and he travels through Mumbai and get caught in the communal frenzy. Two other people hailing from a different part of Kerala, having come to Mumbai for a job also gets caught in the melee. Three people who are in no way connected to the riots have their life torn apart by what’s happening around them. What happens after forms the crux of the story.

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Regards

[directhit]

Murali Sir - if the updates are on Lalettan its gotto be Jinju

Just now finished watching TRAFFIC - WOW what a movie, one of the best (if not THE BEST) movies i've seen in recent times.... a mix of Amores Perros and the real life incident which happened in Chennai - WONDERFUL WONDERFUL Movie

[directhit]

wow, superb pics, thanks Murali Sir