Malayalam movie reviews

The significance and beauty of Abrid Shines campus drama Poomaram is in the fact that it isnt peripheral or pretentious like most so called campus films we have seen in recent past. Utilizing a very simple and small space of an inter college arts

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There is a growing trend in Malayalam these days to make hero centric films that has the hero believing in communism. Last year, three of our young superstars tried that and this year Anson Paul tries his luck with a movie named Kala Viplavam Pra

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Kalyanam marks the debut of Shravan, son of actor Mukesh. The tagline of the movie is “a cliché love story” and I am almost confident that it was an excuse from the director after seeing the rough cut of this movie. Backed by l

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Adish Praveen won the best child actor award for Kunju Daivam in 2016 and that was the main highlight of the film. The content of Kunju Daivam is definitely preachy and message oriented. But the makers have managed to reduce the typical nature an

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Jayasurya as the lead of the new biopic about Indian Football team captain VP Sathyan has managed to achieve a respectable performance. But the script of this movie penned by debutante Prajesh Sen is a letdown. Cluttered by melodrama, the focus o

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Najeem Koyas first directorial venture Kaly is a discretely exciting thriller. The second half of the movie is where a major development is happening and that does keep us engrossed to the screens in excitement. But towards the end, the twist in

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Making a biopic about a person whose concept of romance was a bit mysterious to a moralistic society isnt an easy task. Aami directed by Kamal, a biopic on ace writer Madhavikutty is more like a docu-fiction that captures perhaps all the points i

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Rosapoo, the new movie starring Biju Menon and Neeraj Madhav is a victim of packaging tactics of commercial cinema. This movie is about the making of low budget adult soft porn films that had a major run back in the 2000s. But the idea to make it

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The transformation of an individual is the basic them of Shyamaprasads new movie Hey Jude. But the director tries to go to a zone that focuses on the commercial viability of the project and thus invests more on humor and less on the key transform

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The new Mammootty movie Street Lights, directed by Shamdat is a film that starts off interesting and fizzles off miserably in the end. Shamdat manages to keep us interested in the film through diverse subplots. But the script fails to hold all th

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Intelligence in scripting was something that was a part of Jeethu Joseph movies. His mega project Aadhi which launched star kid Pranav Mohanlal is a film that severely lacks this intelligence aspect of it. A story that is very thin in terms of pl

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The outdated making style is the major problem of the latest Sugeeth movie Shikkari Shambhu which doesnt have any fresh plot to its credit. The cliché filled movie is in a way another version of what the director did in his first film, Ord

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Munnariyippu was one movie that respected the intelligence of the audience and allowed them to explore the reasons. It had its own statements which people understood by carefully looking into the details. Carbon, from the same director Venu is so

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The cases like Nirbhaya, Jisha, and Soumya has had an impact on the movie industry in the last few years as we have seen a lot of films made on the same topic. Even though it is promoted as a film about a girls entry to the mechanical branch of a

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Daivame Kaithozham K Kumarakanam is never a badly made film. Produced by UGM and directed by Salim Kumar this film somewhere has the same comical nature of the production houses last two films. This satire set in a fantasy backdrop approaches eve

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Diwanjimoola Grand Prix has two actors who carry the responsibility of making it engaging. Siddique and Vinayakan are those two names. The simple and predictable Diwanjimoola Grand Prix is a clichéd assembled story with a lot of subplots t

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Kannur has this political history which has always put the district under a bad light as they always take things very seriously and end up killing each other. Acclaimed film editor B Ajithkumar debuts as a director with the film Eeda which places

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The attempts to recreate the magic of vintage Sathyan Anthikad - Sreenivasan movies havent really worked if you check what has happened with those films which got released in the recent past. Aana Alaralodalaral directed by Dileep Menon is one mo

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If you compare the first part and the second part, Aadu 2 is pretty much superior to its first part. The first film over cooked its jokes and exceeded the tolerance limit of being slapstick and this time Midhun Manuel Thomas made sure he doesnt d

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Vimaanam has unbearable amount of melodrama to its credit. The real life story of Saji Thomas had a lot to do with his ability to create an airplane by surpassing the limitations but this Pradeep M Nair movie sheds less light on that aspect and t

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