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Madanolsavam 2023
Madanolsavam (Odyssey) is a quirky little family drama centered around a naivete. He's an average Joe and lives with his aunt. Things take a turn and change his life forever when he gets embroiled in a conspiracy unbeknownst to his knowledge. There are shoots of humour in the film that has characters eerily familiar to us in Kerala, yet with fresh writing that has become the backbone of Malayalam cinema in recent years. Suraj V is phenomenal as the central…
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Rekhachithram 2025
Rekhachithram (Sketch) is a commendable effort in invoking nostalgia, which it does using a fashion that cannot exactly be called a trope. The film follows the investigation of a crime committed several years ago and quickly manages to involve the audience in the hunt. While the audience is a mere spectator, they're bound to enjoy the procedural, with past movie references and CGI-improved footage that makes for visual glory in the film. The smoothness in which the film flows and…
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Minnal Murali 2021
You'll feel a sense of wicked delight originating from the cinematic social milieu that Basil Joseph is so known to masterfully create as you sit down in your living room and watch Baiju and Rajesh Madhavan in their policemen characters waiting in a "thattukada" for a man to give him an earful, perhaps a handful. The man is a poovalan who's supposed to come down to a bus stop to meet his girlfriend. That deed may or may not happen…
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Student of the Year 2 2019
There's a special type of courage so far unknown to the movie-going public that will be required to bear this imaginative piece of mega nonsense by Punit Malhotra who tries and succeeds to stray away from logic and realism in Student of the Year 2 that it will be impossible to go back to mindful comedies in this franchise. There's no going back from this.
In an over-the-top setting where a bunch of high schools lock horns with each other…
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