Utharam (ഉത്തരം)

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By Jeffin James No comments

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 […]

The Pale Blue Eye

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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 […]

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam

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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. […]