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Monday Malayalam: Ramante Edanthottam! A Love Story That Takes a Twist

#RamenteEdanthottan shows #KunchackoBoban in a non-affair affair

Isn’t this amazing, that there is a whole Indian genre of “women escaping relationships that aren’t terrible, but aren’t what they deserve”?  I watched this movie and could compare it with Queen, English/Vinglish, How Old Are You?, and plenty of others.  But this film has a twist, this film ends with the “unthinkable” actually happening. (more…)

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Wednesday Malayalam: Allu Ramendran, Perfectly Pleasant Police Picture

Wednesday Malayalam: Allu Ramendran, Perfectly Pleasant Police Picture

Well, this was a sunny pleasant film. Not great, but not terrible. Very Malayalam. Oh, and pretty also, can’t beat those Kerala village settings!

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Monday Malayalam ReRun: Niram, Cute Cute 90s Love!

Monday Malayalam ReRun: #Niram , Cute Cute 90s Love!

Oh man is this a cute cute cute cute cute movie!  So happy and sweet and innocent and 90s.  And clear plastic backpack-y.  And it might now be my favorite Shalini rom-com, even nudging out Alaipayuthay.

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Upcoming Movie Announcement: Malayalam ReRun, Niram! Swoon to 90s Love

Upcoming Movie Announcement: Malayalam ReRun, #Niram ! Swoon to 90s Love

Obviously, next week’s Tamil review will be Sarkar, whenever I get a chance to see it.  But I won’t forget Malayalam entirely, I want to put up a rerun of one of the sweetest nicest little romances of the 90s.

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Monday Malayalam: Sahayathrikakku Snehapoorvam, Cute Set-Up and Failed Execution

Monday Malayalam: #SahayathrikakkuSnehapoorvam has a cute set-up and then fails the execution

See, this is what happens when no one is commenting, I get depressed and watch random not very good films.  Although Kunchacko did his best to cheer me up.  But that was countered by the heroine Kavya Madhavan, an actress I was really liking until I looked up who she was and learned she is (maybe) a terrible human being.  But even so, I have to admit she did a wonderful job in this film.  This…

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Monday Malayalam (on Tuesday, I'm behind this week): Take-Off, Women Who Were Hostages Long Before They Were in a War Zone

#TakeOff watch this before #TigerZindaHai to see where the story really starts

I have been nagged by you nice people in the comments to watch this movie for I think a year now.  And I finally did it!!!!  Which means your nagging works, and you should keep it up. (more…)

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Monday Malayalam Special: I Was Stuck In Traffic Behind Nivin Pauly!!!!

#NAFA2017 I was stuck in traffic behind @NivinOfficial ! Highlight of the evening

Last night I went the North American Film Awards, which are essentially the Malayalam IIFAs.  So, the IIFAs without any backup dancers or rehearsals, but with a lot of really detailed eloquent speeches and as much applause for the directors as their was for the stars.  And in a theater which is about the same size as a high school auditorium, and wasn’t even sold out.  But that’s not important,…

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Monday Malayalam: Shajahanum Pareekuttiyum, What if Movies are Just Conning Us?

#ShajahanumPareekuttiyum asks, what if movies are just conning us?

This was a kind of interesting film.  Not a great film, maybe not even a good film?  But an interesting one.  Well, interesting in the last twenty minutes.  The set-up for that was a bit of a drag.  But most important (for me), this was a FREE film!  It suddenly popped up at my library, while I was in the middle of the move (DVDs finally unpacked as of this morning, but books still in boxes), and…

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