This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 10, 2017. Totally Filmi Casa Fave Indrajith lends his voice to this short film from graphic artist and director Suneesh K. Sukumaran. The film marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the destruction of the Babri Masjid, an event that changed the face of…
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Malayalam 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…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on November 11, 2011. Late one evening, businessman Chirammal Enashu Francis (AKA Pranchiyettan, as per the film’s title) makes a visit to the churchyard, first, to “visit” with his ancestors (whom he claims later to be able to actually see). Pranchiyettan needs their…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 30, 2011. A cinema superstar. A discredited traffic constable. A surgeon about to celebrate his first year wedding anniversary. A young journalist just starting his first day on the job. Their friends, their partners, their families, their colleagues. All of these…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on January 5, 2012. A landscape, a house, a Koran, a suitcase, an umbrella, some perfume bottles, and a picture of Mecca hung on the wall. From the opening frames of Adaminte Makan Abu, director/writer Salim Ahmed draws us in to the world of…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 3, 2012. Aashiq Abu’s second film, Salt N’ Pepper, was a bit of a sleeper hit in the summer of 2012. It tells the story of Kalidasan (Lal), a middle-aged archeologist and Maya (Shweta Menon), a dubbing artiste in her late thirties. …
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 5, 2012. “You play dominoes very well, I believe.”Mr. Cust was a little flurried by this. “I – I—well, I believe I do.”“It is a very absorbing game, is it not, with a lot of skill in it?”“Oh, there is a…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on July 21, 2014. Good, Bad, and Ugly has a running time of about an hour and forty-five minutes. I think it’s important for me to mention that, because it took me about an hour of that (a spot well past the interval break)…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 1, 2014. On the busy day of a celebratory function in an apartment building, nine people end up stuck in the building’s elevator. All of them are, in some way, connected with a mysterious woman (Meghna Raj), who ends up dead…
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