ReviewThe story flows in a very straight path, without unexpected turns or strange abstractions that you might expect from someone who made a surrealistic film like ‘Aavasavyuham’.There is something really sad about Sebastian. You almost miss it when you first come to know of him, this policeman who tells tall tales to his coterie, a bunch of subordinates who act like teenage fans. But that’s his fame. Children in the neighbourhood and young people joining the police force know him as Super Sebastian. What a buildup for this oddly interesting character, leading the story of Purusha Pretham, a film made by Krishand who directed the multiple-award winning Aavasayuham last year. Prasanth Alexander, an actor obviously underutilised for years, transforms into Sebastian, exhibiting an unlikeable demeanour. Darshana Rajendran’s character, Susanna, describes him as rude and annoying. Yet, he is not exactly rude as far as stereotypical police behaviour goes.
- 3/24/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
ReviewThough the film falls prey to amateur making, it tells important issues, very relevant for the times we live in.CrisFaiza Sufiya is not your outraging rebel, not the first to jump the gun. But when she takes a stand, it’s honest, and her words have a remarkable clarity about them. Faiza is a person you’d love to know closer, as you watch her in the newly released movie Varthamanam. With a north-Kerala slang, lose salwar-kurthis and hijab, Parvathy Thiruvothu transforms admirably into Faiza. Writer and Congress politician Aryadan Shoukath, known for calling out regressive systems within the community in his stories, has written the story of a young researcher stepping into a Delhi campus in the current political situation. It appears to be a fictionalised version of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (Jnu) which has been seeing unrest in the past several years, with arrests and branding of student activists as anti-national.
- 3/12/2021
- by Cris
- The News Minute
MollywoodThe film, which was denied a certificate by the Kerala Censor Board of Film Certification (Cbfc) was later given the nod by a revising committee.Tnm StaffVarthamanam, starring Parvathy Thiruvothu in the lead, will have a theatrical release on March 12 at 300 theatres across the country. The film, which was denied certificate by the regional Censor Board of Film Certification (Cbfc) in Kerala was later given the go-ahead by the revising committee of the Central Censor Board. The movie, directed by Sidhartha Siva, is written by writer and Congress politician Aryadan Shoukath. It deals with the struggles faced by a young Muslim woman from Kerala who lands in a Delhi based campus to research on the freedom fighter Mohammed Abdu Rahiman. The film is set against the current political situation in the country. The story is about how the students belonging to different political parties come together despite their differences to convey secular ideas,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Neethu
- The News Minute
Cinema'Cyanide' is a multilingual project directed by National Film Award winning director Rajesh Touchriver. Digital NativeActor Priyamani, who was last seen in Amazon Prime’s Family Man, is all set to join hands with filmmaker Rajesh Touchriver for an upcoming pan-Indian project titled Cyanide. The film is reportedly based on the life of serial killer 'Cyanide' Mohan, the physical education teacher in Karnataka who killed 20 young women by giving them cyanide. The project was officially announced on Wednesday, and its makers confirmed it will go on the floors from January 2021. Priyamani will essay the role of the special investigation officer who probes the crucial case. The statement further added, “Getting young women to hotel rooms across Karnataka in the guise of love, giving them emergency contraceptive pills - laced with cyanide - after a night with them, and subsequently fleeing with their gold ornaments was Mohan's modus operandi.” About 20 young...
- 10/1/2020
- by Jahnavi
- The News Minute
Mollywood‘Oru Kuttanadan Blog’ could have chosen to blaze its own trail, but disappointingly chooses to tread the standard path we see in every movie. CrisIt is not clear what Sunny Wayne is doing in the movie when it begins. More than two hours later, when the movie ends, you are still not sure why he was there at all. Sitting miles away in a foreign country, reading a blog – that is also the name of the movie – Oru Kuttanadan Blog, and discussing it with his roommate, Ananya. Oh yes, it is explained to be one man’s nostalgia to keep track of his native place – Krishnapuram in Kuttanad. What it tries to do is use him as an unnecessary prop to tell the film’s story. And the story, unsurprisingly, revolves not around Krishnapuram, the village, but rather one man who runs the place – Hari ettan, played by Mammootty.
- 9/14/2018
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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