This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on February 6, 2020. “Your sleepless nights are coming,” an odd character tells Dr Anwar Hussain (Kunchacko Boban) as he stands in the dark smoking a cigarette. Hussain is more troubled by this seemingly innocuous encounter than by the interview he’s just had…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 21, 2020. In honour of Mohanlal’s 60th birthday, you’ll no doubt be reading many tributes to the Malayalam actor, and poring over lists of his best films (or what each list compiler thinks are his best films, but we all know that…
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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 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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