At a police station in Vagamon, preparations are underway for an event organized by the Kerala Police Housing Co-operative Society and the Kerala Government’s LIFE Mission Scheme, which Forest Minister Geetha Rajendran (Srindaa) will be attending. Police officers rehearse a song, put out chairs for guests, reporters check their phones…
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Balu (Suraj Venjaramoodu) and Lakshmi (Gayatri Arun) are a couple who have been married eight years, who long to have children. Balu works as an insurance salesman and motivational speaker on the subject of marriage. He and Lakshmi live in an apartment complex in Dubai, where, during the three day…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on October 17, 2019. Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) has been a station master for the Indian Railways in Tamil Nadu for 30 years, and bids an emotional farewell to the community he’s become a part of — but, as he tells the people he’s…
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A man is pulled from the Johnson River in Kerala’s Wayanad district, in Kerala’s mountainous Western Ghat region. At night, a group of young men sit around a fire, drinking, and ponder how the dead man got into the river. Murder, suggests one, but Johnny (Basil Paulose) says that couldn’t…
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T.P. Balagopalan (Mohanlal) is a low level employee at Falcon Products. He earns 800 rupees a month, and uses that money to support his eldest sister, Radha (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) and her family – her husband, Chandrankutty (Kuthiravattam Pappu) who is a bus conductor and largely absent, as well as their…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on December 10, 2017. Totally Filmi Casa Fave Indrajith lends his voice to this short film from graphic artist and director Suneesh K. Sukumaran. The film marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the destruction of the Babri Masjid, an event that changed the face of…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on November 11, 2011. Late one evening, businessman Chirammal Enashu Francis (AKA Pranchiyettan, as per the film’s title) makes a visit to the churchyard, first, to “visit” with his ancestors (whom he claims later to be able to actually see). Pranchiyettan needs their…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on January 5, 2012. A landscape, a house, a Koran, a suitcase, an umbrella, some perfume bottles, and a picture of Mecca hung on the wall. From the opening frames of Adaminte Makan Abu, director/writer Salim Ahmed draws us in to the world of…
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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. …
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