After watching all these light and breezy “new-generation” Malayalam movies featuring simple star casts, stories and scripts telling real-life stories of real people it is only natural that one would forget how bad the big-budget trash that is also the mainstay of the industry and it’s “Super Stars” really are. And today I was unceremoniously…
22 Female, Kottayam is a movie with a spine. Among the bold new movies of Malayalam cinema, it shows things that people would generally not like to see, what movie makers traditionally would refuse to show. It is a small but radically different movie, made with lots of sincerity and heart with a small star cast churning…
Indian Rupee is Ranjith‘s latest Malayalam offering, coming across as another one in the genre of “new age” films like Traffic, Salt N’ Pepper and Pranayam currently redefining Malayalam cinema with fresh stories of everyday lives of small-time real people. It almost looks like the “golden age” of Malayalam cinema of the late 80s and early…