Mechilpuram

Musings It's Thursday night in Al Satwa, Dubai and you don't want to do anything better than curling up on your setee with a BluRay disc playing the movie that came out 2 years ago and with a bowl of crisps and some cold orange juice to wash it down with. Thursday night signalled the start of the weekend. How simpler were those days? You either caught the hottest movies at the theater during it's run time or sailed the high seas to get a pirated copy from Torrent sites, or just sat there patiently, waiting for it's disk to hit the neighbourhood video store.  It was ecstasy to catch a Mohanlal movie just waiting there on the shelf, just waiting there to be picked up.  At this time, I would like to recount an incident back from 2006 - 2007, when renting out a CD happened once in a blue moon. It's a cool weekend night, when we're all cooped up in front of the TV to see which movie Acha had brought home. Mind you that it's a unofficial CD, with just the name of ...

I came to know about this movie in recent days and can’t really wrap my head around what is going on. Went in expecting a raw, straight to the point movie. Closed the laptop with disappointment, with the realisation that Jayaram got mislead again for a project With the word "mislead", I want to express Jayaram's need of the hour, then to accept roles out of his comfort zone. That did come to fruition in Ivar, but the script totally let this movie down, despite it's technical excellence - in the cinematography and editing department, and the effort put in by the cast. Rajeev Kumar is one director that I respect, but this movie looks really bad, starting from the script.  Devi Ajith’s character was pointless. Me10, Biju chettan and Balachandran chettan looked handsome, but left me wondering why everything was conveniently falling into place to reach the climax  Anoop Menon’s character lets slip of his undercover identity easily, Me10 slaying an elderly dude while th...

  Source : Justdial Random Musings Imagine this. It's the dawn of 2004. At a time when internet cafes, Splendour bikes and polo striped t-shirts were in vogue, Jayaraj decides to tell the story of 4 vigilantes.  Armed with Iqbal Kuttipuram's script, and the nostalgia that frames from 2003 - 2004 Kerala brings us, Jayaraj crafted one of the best thrillers, that made people stop and think about how determined people can take law in their hands to avenge inequality and corruption. At a time when Malayalam Cinema was going through a less than stellar phase, we got some real gems that aimed to explore themes beyond what was the norm. Aparichithan, Kalachakram, Athbudhadweepu, Black and Kadhavaseshan are notable names. 4 The People is another pick that falls snugly into that select basket.   In the state of Kerala, where politics is a common tea-time topic of discussion, and SFI goons disrupt businesses every other week, vigilantes were an unexplored topic. Sure, Communist...