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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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 9, 2020. In the town of Manjadikunnu, the local school begins organizing a function to celebrate the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. The head of the PTA suggests to the recently arrived headmaster (Maniyan Pilla Raju) that there is only one person…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 6, 2020. The year is 1951 – four years after Partition, which gave rise to two states independent of British rule (India and Pakistan). Everyone is looking to the future of this new India, including Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala), a literature…
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