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Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal 2024
I went back and watched Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal again. And if my first viewing left me feeling like I had just spent a few days living in that house, surrounded by these people, my second time made me see things even deeper—things I hadn’t fully processed before.
I feel people who walked out of this film fixating only on the cousin romance or the sexual tension completely missed the bigger picture. Because Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal is quietly taking a hammer to a…
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Mean Girls 2004
Okay, so I finally watched Mean Girls for the first time, and weirdly enough, it felt nostalgic. Maybe because half the main cast were my crushes at different points in life. Like, Lindsay Lohan was definitely a childhood crush, but by the time I really got into movies, she had kind of disappeared from the mainstream. So I realise I never actually watched most of her films—other than The Parent Trap—which, now that I think about it, is kind of…
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Officer on Duty 2025
So, I just watched Officer on Duty, and okay—something I really appreciated in the film, something that stood out to me, was how Vaisakh Menon (yeah, the Kuppi guy from Aanandam) has solidified his presence as an actor we can trust with negative roles. I wouldn’t say bankable—that word gets thrown around too much—but definitely reliable when it comes to playing unsettling characters. I remember when he first played a negative role in Puthan Panam and people laughed at him;…
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Identity 2025
Did they pull a Justice League Henry Cavill on Aju Varghese’s mustache? Or is it just me?
Identity felt like an overambitious, overstuffed ride. Written and directed by Anas Khan and Akhil Paul, the duo behind Forensic, it carries the same hallmarks that made Forensic a mixed bag for me: a relentless barrage of plot points, overly complex storytelling, and a general unwillingness to let the audience breathe. If Forensic was the appetizer to their style of filmmaking, Identity is…
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