This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 28, 2018. “Why does your father always cast you in his films?” a young Nitu (Parno Mittra) asks Saberi (Tisha) as the two eat from their lunch boxes. “If you want, I’ll ask him to cast you next time,” Saberi tells…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 16, 2019. I haven’t participated in a blogathon in a while, but when I saw that there was one dedicated to celebrating National Classic Movie Day, I really wanted to dust off the blog and share something. The idea is to…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 18, 2019. I was living in France when Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain was released – I’d lived there just long enough that I could cope with the film without subtitles, but also just long enough that I was still feeling kind of…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on October 31, 2019. We first met the four friends Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindankutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish) and Thomaskutty (Ashokan) in the 1990 film In Harihar Nagar, a comedy thriller from the writing/directing duo Siddique-Lal which became a massive hit and which remains a cult…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on November 15, 2019 Appu (Pranav Mohanlal) and his family run a beach-front establishment in Goa by night, organizing the kind of parties that Goa has become synonymous with. By day, he surfs. And rescues his father, Baba (Manoj K. Jayan), from Abusi…
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This post first appeared on Totally Film on December 7, 2019. The end of the decade has seen lots of buzz around lists of films (top tens, top one hundreds, best films in a variety of languages, best films across languages), and in my own plodding way I’ve started looking…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on January 4, 2020. Traffic (dir. Rajesh Pillai) 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. …
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on February 6, 2020. “Your sleepless nights are coming,” an odd character tells Dr Anwar Hussain (Kunchacko Boban) as he stands in the dark smoking a cigarette. Hussain is more troubled by this seemingly innocuous encounter than by the interview he’s just had…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on April 17, 2020. Easter weekend in the middle of a pandemic ends up as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, there are no distractions and stresses; on the other hand, there is time to fill at a time…
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