This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on November 13, 2019. TLDR: My god, what did I watch? More: Yes, it’s time to revive Films in Six Words (inspired by a site that no longer exists, and I haven’t done it in a while, either, but it’s always a good,…
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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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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on April 20, 2020 I probably should clarify that by 420, I’m referring not to that section of the Indian penal code that gave inspiration to Raj Kapoor’s film Shri 420 (the 420 referring to someone who is a con artist or fraudster),…
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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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