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A man is pulled from the Johnson River in Kerala’s Wayanad district, in Kerala’s mountainous Western Ghat region. At night, a group of young men sit around a fire, drinking, and ponder how the dead man got into the river. Murder, suggests one, but Johnny (Basil Paulose) says that couldn’t…
Leave a CommentT.P. Balagopalan (Mohanlal) is a low level employee at Falcon Products. He earns 800 rupees a month, and uses that money to support his eldest sister, Radha (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) and her family – her husband, Chandrankutty (Kuthiravattam Pappu) who is a bus conductor and largely absent, as well as their…
Leave a CommentThe Uttarakhand hill stations in India are often compared to Switzerland because of their spectacular mountain vistas, and Munsiyari, which provides the setting for Ajitpal Singh’s Fire in the Mountains, is stunning in its beauty, sitting as it does at the base of the Himalayas. It’s no wonder, then, that…
Leave a Comment“When I started out on my journey I looked upon this big mountain. This mountain was made up of the molesters, the acid throwers, the abusers. It was scary, and it was breathing fire at me. But I decided to march towards it with one thought in mind – in…
Leave a CommentMalayalam filmmaker Dr. Biju returns to the film festival circuit with Orange Marangalude Veedu (“House of Orange Trees”), currently screening as part of the New York Indian Film Festival. I’ve written before that Dr. Biju’s emphasis as a filmmaker is to create films that serve to inform and advocate on…
Leave a CommentIttyavira (Biju Menon) is a retired math teacher living in Kottayam. His daughter Sherley (Parvathy) is widowed and remarried to Roy (Sharafudheen, who in the space of a few films has become a particular house favourite), whose business is facing financial issues. Roy has borrowed money from his friend Vyshak…
Leave a Comment“I’ve had a blast raising social justice consciousness!” cries Alia Kapur (Sophia Ali) at the final party of her year at UCLA before she heads home to her family in New Jersey. The trip home begins with a flurry of text messages from her mother Sheila (Manisha Koirala) – whom…
Leave a CommentIn the winter of 1947, as the princely state of Junagadh was moving back and forth between India and Pakistan in the wake of Partition, Husyn (Naseeruddin Shah), an old, blind Muslim man and his family – his wife, Sakina (Padmavati Rao) and daughter, Noor (Rasika Dugal) – are preparing…
Leave a CommentThis post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 26, 2017. Vinay Forrt stars as a journalist held back by his work on page 8 — the obituaries — which he sees, literally, as a dead end. Also starring Aliyar as his boss, and M.R. Gopakumar as a clown —…
Leave a CommentThis post first appeared on Totally Filmi on April 30, 2017. That time when director Jude Anthany Joseph (Ohm Shanthi Oshaana, Oru Muthassi Gada) and Nivin Pauly (“You all know who I am, right?”) made a PSA for child body safety.
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Leave a CommentThis post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 14, 2017. This year, Appu N Bhattathiri’s first feature film, Nizhal, starring Kunchacko Boban, was released. Nizhal was written by S. Sanjeev, and its DOP was by Deepak D. Menon, both of whom worked on Candle Camera.
Leave a CommentThis post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 21, 2017.
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