Which Malayalam film did you watch recently ?

[kid-glove]

And it's incomprehensible why Mammootty's performance here wasn't nominated. I hear only Paleri and Pazhassi were contenders.

Forget Pazhassi, one of the three characters in Paleri is vintage Mammootty. But Paleri is comfortably short of complicated role-playing in Kutty Srank. The character's life as filtered through different perspectives is given subtle hues by his acting (not just by the subtle changes in his looks. Have to appreciate the sets too. I'm amazed how Shaji gets the budget for the locations, props, etc without even a major release ?!), in reflection of the respective narrator's POV (not to be confused with POV shots in formal terms. Using it a bit liberally. Which you will understand when you watch the film). To hold the different fragments of Kutty as realized by the three women (and for brief glimpses in between, the director breaks the elliptical pattern and actually shows Kutty's screnes on his own.) together is a noteworthy achievement. There's also a fable-like POV of another writer, female again, who at different stages exposits the two-way kinship between the one who is writing and one who is being written about. At a lot of stages, we cut to objective POV (in narrative sense) as I say before. And there are lot of directorial touches to visually express the state of mind. Especially the first stages centering around Padmapriya seemed to be a lot more showy and loud, and yet a bit arcane. And all of this seemed to connect a bit to the opening quote from Upanishads on dreams/waking-up.

Not that any of this would matter. For there's Ramesh Sippy any way.

[directhit]

And it's incomprehensible why Mammootty's performance here wasn't nominated. I hear only Paleri and Pazhassi were contenders.

same for Lalettan's Bhrahmaram - M's should have shared the award

am half way thru the movie... thanks to torrents dvd rip aavadhu kadaikkudhu

[ajaybaskar]

Anoop,

Watched 'Evvidam Sorgamaanu'?

[directhit]

Anoop,

Watched 'Evvidam Sorgamaanu'?

yeah, liked quite a few scenes in the film, but expected much more since it was Rosshan Andrews..

[Murali Srinivas]

Anoop/Ajay,

Probably you must have seen August 1 which dealt about the assasscination attempt on the Chief Minister and the counter offensive by the state police. You could not have forgotten the Crime Branch Inspector Perumal in that. Now that Perumal is back as Deputy commisioner of Police and watch him in August 15. Again an investigation thriller by the Shaji Kailas - SN Swamy team. Slated to be a Christmas offering here are few snaps.

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http://mammootty.com/photos/movie_ga...a47a048282.jpg

Official Poster

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Regards

The other movie Best Actor by debutant director Martin Prakkat, which was discussed in the previous pages is getting released on 25th of this month. A cinema crazy School teacher aspiring to become a cinema star and his pursuits form the crux of the story.

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[app_engine]

Chithram on Asianet.

Possibly the most-times-watched-on-big-screen movie by me

(Silver Jubilee run in a small town like Palakkad during my bachelor days and every person who visited me (from TN / Bangalore etc) was forced (by me) to watch this and thus numerous trips to the theater )

[ajaybaskar]

Thanx Murali Anna for the share..

Definitely a movie to watch out for...

But the first part was directed by Sibi Malayil, right?

[directhit]

Anoop/Ajay,

Probably you must have seen August 1 which dealt about the assasscination attempt on the Chief Minister and the counter offensive by the state police. You could not have forgotten the Crime Branch Inspector Perumal in that. Now that Perumal is back as Deputy commisioner of Police and watch him in August 15. Again an investigation thriller by the Shaji Kailas - SN Swamy team. Slated to be a Christmas offering here are few snaps.

http://cinespot.net/gallery/d/456221...photos_001.JPG

http://cinespot.net/gallery/d/456223...s+pics+_1_.JPG

http://mammootty.com/photos/movie_ga...a47a048282.jpg

Official Poster

http://i53.tinypic.com/21acls4.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/30ab7dx.jpg

Regards

.. have seen this numerous times, esp Mammookka seeing Captain Raju via tv and rushing out to shoot him

[directhit]

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[directhit]

there was also a news that there is a movie coming up as 'King and the Commissioner' with Mammookka's King and Suresh Gopi's Commissioner character as lead characters -- wonder why no one in Tamil is coming up with such movies, with characters of different movies meeting each other in a new movie..