By Sahal Thaju Since the days , the Desire for filmmaking germinated in me , I have been doing research. Finding screenplays to be the foundation of a film , I wanted to watch movies which were well written and understand the anatomy and emotional beats and structure of it. I found that all the […]
‘Thankamani’ has the sensibilities of an awful serial, stretched to two-and-a-half hours. It’s one of those movies that makes you want to have a bath right after. Thankamani is a cinematic, partly fictionalised take on a dark chapter in Kerala’s political and cultural history. Some of the character, establishment and incident names have been altered, […]
The film stars Naslen K Gafoor and Mamitha Baiju. Despite the undercurrent of dysfunction, we keep laughing at (and with) these oddball characters. For four years, in his college in TamilNadu, Sachin has been in love with a student named Anjali. To be precise, the love is only from his side. She is vaguely aware […]
The film stars an excellent Soubin Shahir, Sreenath Bhasi and a bunch of others. The real heroes are production designer Ajayan Chalissery and cinematographer Shyju Khalid. Based on a real-life incident, Chidambaram’s Manjummel Boys – set in 2006 – tells the story of a group of friends that went to the Guna caves, where the superhit Ilayaraja […]
There has much debate around the benefits of the four-day working week for both employees and employers. Research which was co-ordinated by a not-for-profit organisation, 4 Day Week Global, with employers in Ireland, the United States, Australia and New Zealand…
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Got this via email. If anyone feels like helping out, you can reach Sahal Thaju at Sahalthaju@gmail.com I am a 12th std kid (sahal). I wrote a screenplay 2 years ago. I was unsuccessful in getting a reader for my work. I hope that you will provide a space in readers write column in your […]
Since the financial crisis in 2009 to 2021 (pre-covid), monetary policy has been highly accommodative i.e. low interest rates. Part of the reason for this was that savings were greater than investments – supply of money > demand for money.…
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The filmmaker overcomes the mammoth challenge of making us aware of the intricacies and minutiae of Dune’s immense world-building and focusing on its characters simultaneously. It’s a cause for much joy when a filmmaker known for his penchant for science fiction offers visual callbacks to iconic films in the genre in the opening moments of […]
The film stars Varun and Raahei. The slickly staged action sequences aren’t bad, but the movie wants to be more and that’s the problem. “Imai Pol Kaakha” is the tagline for Gautham Vasudev Menon’s new movie, titled Joshua. The tagline sounds so poetic, something right out of the Maruvaarthai song from one of this director’s […]
The film stars Yami Gautam Dhar and Priya Mani. The movie simplifies – and necessarily so, for narrative reasons – a very complex issue. And as a movie, it works. The only way to watch a historical movie – whether it’s the biopic of a character, or the biopic of a political act, like Article […]
The film stars Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan, Siddharth Bharathan. Despite a few reservations, it is a heady mix of fine acting and fine filmmaking. There is a thesis waiting to be written about the various shades of villainy embodied by Mammootty in his legendary career. There are too many to be listed, but in his eighth […]
The film has a wonderful bunch of fresh-faced actors. And it makes Big Points about women in heartland India. The year is 2001. The place is Nirmal Pradesh, a stand-in for heartland India. A young woman named Phool (Nitanshi Goel) is being married off. Her face is covered with a veil — the traditional gold-orange […]
