This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 1, 2020. When I was little, Communism was something to be feared, something to be suppressed, and the news each May 1st carried reports on the displays of military power by the former Soviet Union, probably as an object lesson that we…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 21, 2020. In honour of Mohanlal’s 60th birthday, you’ll no doubt be reading many tributes to the Malayalam actor, and poring over lists of his best films (or what each list compiler thinks are his best films, but we all know that…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on June 11, 2020. As a fan of Malayalam cinema, I try to follow the news from Kerala so I can learn as much as I can, ongoing research, if you will, to try to understand the films better. In 2018, there was…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on July 25, 2020. Vijay Kunnamel is an aspiring actor who attends every audition put on by the AJ Casting agency, no matter what the role. He takes his auditions seriously, asking the casting directors, Anand and Raja, what kind of shot they’re…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on July 29, 2020. A shopkeeper is gifted a GoPro camera from his brother who works in the Gulf, but he decides that the most practical use of the device would be to record what happens in his shop, a kind of artisanal…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 6, 2020, Set in post-Partition India, Qissa (“Folktale”) introduces us to Sikh patriarch Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan). Forced to leave his village (in Pakistan territory), Umber takes his family (consisting of his wife, two daughters, and a newborn baby girl whom…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 31, 2020. “Dreams that one has at dawn come true, right?” asks Ashokan (Jacob Gregory) of his friend Ratheesh (Krishna Sankar), who wakes him out of his latest reverie, in which he is the married father of twins. Ashokan is surrounded…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 31, 2020. Jimmy (Roshan Mathew) meets Anu (Darshana Rajendran) via an online dating app – in fact, all of their relationship is conducted on-line, mainly through Google Hangouts. Anu seems to be careful about what she shares – most of the…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 7, 2020. “In between the celebrations of life, death enters unexpectedly.” Ravishankar (Mammootty) is a respected writer and journalist who finds himself dying of blood cancer. He’s looked after by his wife, Malini (Gautami), and their close friend Rajendran (Manoj K.…
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