Alvin Henry’s Christy literally drops us in the ocean in its opening frames, onto a small boat where some men are fishing, and Roy (Mathew Thomas), nursing a hangover, is sick to his stomach with each wave that knocks them about. The song that plays in this moment invites us…
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Balu (Suraj Venjaramoodu) and Lakshmi (Gayatri Arun) are a couple who have been married eight years, who long to have children. Balu works as an insurance salesman and motivational speaker on the subject of marriage. He and Lakshmi live in an apartment complex in Dubai, where, during the three day…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on October 17, 2019. Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) has been a station master for the Indian Railways in Tamil Nadu for 30 years, and bids an emotional farewell to the community he’s become a part of — but, as he tells the people he’s…
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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…
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This 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 —…
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This 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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This film first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 7, 2017.
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This 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.
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 21, 2017.
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