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Susie’s Fab Five | Songs that assert a Second Chance
Pix Courtesy : Remigiusz Szczerbak A second chance at life and love – the hope of reconciling after a quarrel, or the unexpected blossoming of a new romance, the optimism of the human psyche is...
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I have to apologise.
Dear Constant Reader, This is specifically for all those who have read through the two expansive posts on the classic Kottaram Vilkanundu (1972) by the Gopalkrishnan-Nilambur Hyderali team, and...
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Susie’s Fab Five | Songs of the Wandering Minstrel
On the journey of life, we pass through several roads – darkness and light, winding roads and straight, over land and sea. A lifetime, searching for that elusive something, perhaps even the final...
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Poojapura Ravi is the recipient of the Ragamalika – JAYAN Award 2012
According to a report in Malayala Manorama, the Ragamalika – JAYAN Award for the year 2012, instituted by the Jayan Samskarika Vedi in memory of the late Jayan, actor, who passed away on 16 November...
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Our Polyester 80′s | A trip through Malayalam cinema’s memorable shiny disco...
If you were around in the 80′s, actively following the trends and exploring the new evolving genres in Malayalam film music, it would have been really, really difficult to have missed the shiny disco...
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Classic Picks | P Bhaskaran | Iruttinte Athmavu (1967)
Iruttinte Athmavu ( The Soul of Darkness ) has to be probably the first mainstream Malayalam film which highlighted the travails of the unsound mind on the silver screen through its main protagonist,...
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The Songs from Iruttine Athmavu ( 1967 )
Iruttinte Athmavu – Velayudhan’s beautiful Ammu kutty Rarely do I come across a movie with all the songs picturised on the lead female protagonist, sung for her by the same playback singer as solo...
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Memorable Quotes from Iruttinte Athmavu (1967)
Iruttinte Athmavu- Velayudhan crosses over to the Other Side MT Vasudevan Nair’s screenplay of Iruttinte Athmavu (1967), though written based on his short story which was published even earlier, sounds...
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Susie’s Fab Five | Odes to our Universe and its mystic beauty.
From time immemorial the Universe has always fascinated man. He wrote, sang and wove dreams about it. He strove to conquer it. { Quoting Captain Kirk from Star Trek “Space: The final frontier…..to...
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KPAC Lalitha selected for the Thoppil Bhasi Award 2012
Credit : The Hindu According to news reports in Malayala Manorama and The Hindu, KPAC Lalitha has been selected for the 2012 Thoppil Bhasi Award, as announced by the Thoppil Bhasi Foundation, and the...
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Remembering Malayalam cinema’s irreverent and outspoken performer, MG Soman.
Courtesy : Nostalgia Magazine MG Soman had always been that, right from his very first movie Gayatri (1973), written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan for PN Menon. His irreverence remained only for the...
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ദൈവത്തിന് പുത്രന് മലയാള സിനിമ ഗാനങ്ങളില്.
The Nativity by Gustav Dore ക്രിസ്തുമസ്സിനോടനുബന്ധിച്ച് ( 2011) ജീവജ്യോതി മാസികയ്ക്ക് വേണ്ടി തയ്യാറാക്കിയ ലേഖനം ഇവിടെ പുനപ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്നു. പുതിയ ജീവിതക്രമങ്ങളില് പുത്തന് മാധ്യമങ്ങള് നല്കിയ...
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X’mas Flashbacks | The drop-dead handsome Snapaka Yohannan (1963) and the...
[ Remitha on X'mas and its movies, from her Wonder Years.] Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur Thanks to fourteen years in a school run by nuns, Christmas inevitably brings to mind Charlton Heston angrily...
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23 December 2002 |രതീഷിനെ ഓര്ക്കുമ്പോള്.
Ratheesh in Commissioner (1994) 1980-ഇല് ജയന് വിട പറഞ്ഞപ്പോള് ഇനി സിനിമ കാണണോ എന്ന് ആലോചിച്ച ഭൂരിപക്ഷം മലയാളികള് ഒരാളാണ് ഈയുള്ളവന് . അടുത്ത വര്ഷം ഐ വി ശശി ഒരു വന് ബജറ്റ് ചിത്രം ഇറക്കി –...
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Another X’mas and a Message that should never be forgotten.
As another Christmas comes knocking on our doors and our lives, here ‘s wishing you all the goodness the Season brings, and hope that it is honored all through the year. I believe it would also be a...
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The Kerala Movie Studio Legacy | JC Daniel’s The Travancore National Pictures
Courtesy : Metromatinee.com It seems strange and sad that every mention of the glorious film production history of Malayalam hinges around the obvious two – P Subramaniam‘s Merryland and Kunchacko‘s...
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A 3 – Day Prem Nazir Tribute at Kozhikode starting January 16, 2013
The Prem Nazir Samskarika Vedi, Kozhikode is organising a 3-day event celebrating the life and movies of the evergeen Prem Nazir, starting from January 16 till Jan 18, 2013, at the Town Hall. Any...
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The Kerala government at last wakes up to preserving its movie legacy, plans...
Inside the National Film Archives, Pune 83 years after the successful screening of the first Malayalam film, Kerala will at last get a film archive to call its own, if the State government has its way....
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ശ്രീകുമാരന് തമ്പി |ദീപ്തസ്മരണകളുടെ കാവ്യ ശില്പി
വയലാറിനും ഭാസ്കരന് മാസ്റ്റര്ക്കും ശേഷം മലയാളസിനിമാ ഗാനരചനാ പൂമുഖത്ത് പുത്തന് പൂക്കൂടയൊരുക്കി മധുവും മണവും പകര്ത്തി ആസ്വാദക ഭ്രമരങ്ങളെ ആവേശിതരാക്കുകയും ആകര്ഷിതരാക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത മലയാളത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം...
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The debate of 1928 vs 1930 | Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan’s meticulous research...
[ I would like to place on record the inspiring initiative by Adv Narayan, who has been tirelessly following up leads and collecting factual information to set Malayalam Cinema's most debated part of...
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