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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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 15, 2020. Eyo (Arun A. Kumar) is a young man with no credentials and not much going for him – he freely admits he hasn’t finished his B. Tech degree (and is highly unlikely to do so). He’s unable to find…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 26, 2020 Manu (Sarjano Khalid) goes from official to official to try to secure the release from of his big brother, Sachi (Mohanlal), in prison because he killed his step-mother’s abusive ex-husband. Underaged at fifteen, he is sent to a juvenile…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 31, 2020. Nayana (Namitha Pramod) is a young Malayalee who, like many young Keralites, finds herself working in Dubai to try to secure a better future. One day, she is visited by a man (Siddique) claiming to be the father of…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on January 1, 2021. What a way to open the New Year than with a film about January remembrances? It’s the new year in Kodaikanal (in Tamil Nadu), and visitors arriving to the “Princess of the Hill Stations” are greeted upon arrival by…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on January 11, 2021 The Malabar region of Kerala is home to a form of football known as “Sevens” – seven players a side, a smaller pitch, slightly different rules. In places like Malappuram, where Sudani From Nigeria is set, football is more popular than…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on April 7, 2021 Tenzin (Tsering Tashi Gyalthang) is an entrepreneur looking to open a coffee shop in Kathmandu – he knows what he wants: the right combination of location, atmosphere, and good coffee, in some ways the very things that western coffee…
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Ittyavira (Biju Menon) is a retired math teacher living in Kottayam. His daughter Sherley (Parvathy) is widowed and remarried to Roy (Sharafudheen, who in the space of a few films has become a particular house favourite), whose business is facing financial issues. Roy has borrowed money from his friend Vyshak…
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