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Neelavelicham, Blue turn of a black and white Classic

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If you are a conditioned admirer of blood thirsty vampires and an exclusive subscriber of Netflix jumpscares ,'Neelavelicham' can't work on you. But for your parents, this will be a colorful nostalgia. It could keep the classic elements of Vaikom Muhammad bhasheer's short story named the same affixed with some technical superiority.  Bargavinilayam, is a popular phrase for every haunted house in Kerala since the last sixty years. It's considered as a pioneer horror film in Malayalam film industry that tells the story of Bargavi and her boyfriend Sasikumar. The adapted version Neelavelicham also displays their love, tragedy and the crime that happens in this plot with very little deviations from the original film. It adds the advancement of technology to make the film more convincing and visually memorable.  Is there a Ghost...? The protagonist sees Bargavi. Other characters  also see and experience the presence of Bargavi. But nobody has ever seen somebody seeing Ba

B 32 muthal 44 vare, Review

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 As long as the women are getting pathetically judged, slut-shamed, commodified, assaulted, and sex-rated in our society based on their breast size, the concept of Body politics is something that need to be discussed. B 32 muthal 44 vare is a finely tailored cinematic take on this issue through six women who live in Ernakulam. They are barely connected with each other during the course of their journey. Not all of them know each of them but some of them know at least one among them.  PLOT . The narrative goes like showing each of their issues that are someway connected to their bust size. Ziya played by Anarkkali marakkar is a transgender who used to hide her breast, but Iman , her roommate works in hospitality sector facing carrier issues because of her ill developed breasts. Malini in another plot just had mastectomy and waiting for prosthetic surgery and Jaya faces social auditing because of her appearance in an innerwear ad. Another character named Nidhi is a school girl who is a