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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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 25, 2019. One dark evening, a young woman, running from the police, takes refuge at the home of businessman K.B. Pillai (G.K. Pillai). Pillai and his family threaten to turn her over to the police unless she explains how she got…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 29, 2019. Rosshan Andrrews’ debut film, Udayananu Tharam, was amongst the films I fell in love with when I first started expanding my Malayalam film viewing beyond purely arthouse types of movies. A black comedy starring Mohanlal and Sreenivasan (who also wrote…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on April 1, 2019. In the South Indian state of Kerala – known as “God’s Own Country” – P.K. Ramdas (Sachin Khedekar), the leader of the ruling party, dies, and a power struggle over who will replace him and who will retain power…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 18, 2019. I was living in France when Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain was released – I’d lived there just long enough that I could cope with the film without subtitles, but also just long enough that I was still feeling kind of…
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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 September 7, 2020. “In between the celebrations of life, death enters unexpectedly.” Ravishankar (Mammootty) is a respected writer and journalist who finds himself dying of blood cancer. He’s looked after by his wife, Malini (Gautami), and their close friend Rajendran (Manoj K.…
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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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