Manjummel Boys catapults you into an energized world of vibrant masculine spirit against the backdrop of the millennial decade, peopled with such electrifying characters as you would rarely find in Malayalam cinema. They embody the the animating ethos of the movie so much so that they remind you of those millennial boys in their twenties […]
Watching a 2001 movie has its dissuading aspects numbered in dozens, especially if it is a soft-paced romantic drama starred by some of the last names you would associate with this genre. (Yes, Biju Menon was a romantic hero back in the day.) You might have to recalibrate your notions of romance, let alone the […]
What are the chances of a 1989 movie hooking you to the screen to the whole span of its run time? I’d say it’s pretty thin, but that was before I watched Utharam, a movie penned by M.T Vasudevan Nair and directed by Pavithran, a name I certainly can’t associate with any of the movies […]
Pale Blue Eye was awful, but not cartoonishly awful like most of the movies Hollywood churns out these days. For lack of a better anology, unsafe amount of alcohol is what I’ve got to compare it with. It starts with enervating your senses, depriving your pallet of its taste buds, disorienting your brain and finally […]
Extraction 2 felt like a throwback to the kind of Hollywood movies that defined action movie genre for me with its unashamedly over the top enjoyable action sequences that used to form backbone of 90s movies. Gun fights, explosions car chases, brutal hand to hand combats and a highly trained extremely resourceful man put against […]
I remember having a discussion about Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York’ with a friend and how when I confessed my ignorance in getting my head around the story he said, with not a little air of condescension, “don’t try to understand, try to appreciate.” I tried then and I’ve tried now with Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam. […]
Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey Unlike the bland, forgettable sludge of ‘comedy’ movies where you are left to forage for what could remotely pass for humor, if you’re prepared to put the propaganda aside, you are in for one hell of a hilarious movie experience. But damn my cynical eye! It’s inclined to look for […]
Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See is a brilliant fictional exploration of the traumatic experience of children caught in the horrors of war. Two absorbing and heart-wrenching parallel stories set in France and Germany during the second world war, woven together with a minimum of stylistic devices, he manages to accomplish a fabulous […]
