Tag: Lal

Salt N’ Pepper (dir. Aashiq Abu, 2011)

Salt N’ Pepper (dir. Aashiq Abu, 2011)

Published May 29, 2021 By Katherine Matthews

This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 3, 2012. Aashiq Abu’s second film, Salt N’ Pepper, was a bit of a sleeper hit in the summer of 2012. It tells the story of Kalidasan (Lal), a middle-aged archeologist and Maya (Shweta Menon), a dubbing artiste in her late thirties. …

In Ghost House Inn (dir. Lal, 2010)

Published May 26, 2021 By Katherine Matthews

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…

Al Mallu ( “A Malayalee” dir. Boban Samuel, 2020)

Published May 26, 2021 By Katherine Matthews

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…