This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on November 12, 2019. I stared at my computer for a very long time trying to figure out how to explain the plot of Mikhael. There’s gold smuggler George Peter (Siddique) and his driver who end up dead, murdered under mysterious circumstances. There’s George’s…
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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 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 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 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 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 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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