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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...

 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 ...

  Thuramukham , one of the most awaited film from Rajiv Ravi, tells about, Lives of innocent illiterate people of Mattanchery, their exploitations and revolutionary movements which results in a firing incident that killed many ,way back in the year 1953. Plot . The film starts by using black and white frames to narrate the story of a local muslim man named Maimood (Joju thomas). Maimood and his neighbours are headload workers in Cochin shipyard where they follow a distinctive work culture called Chaappa system under which Chappa is a token of permission that must be posessed by a worker to take part in loading and unloading activities in Cochin shipyard. This chappa coins are issued by an authority named as Mooppan along with a middleman, Pacheekka. As the Chappa system is extremely exploitative, workers and their family were leaving in extreme poverty. Maimood who revolted against the system got murdered by the men in power. When the film picks up the color frames, the timeline as...

 India, the Modi question in its Episode 2, discuss about multiple issues that are in connection with minority-targeting. It documents cow vigilantism, Abrogation of Article 370 that gives special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Illegal more migration in Assam, NRC and CAA protests, Delhi riots, and also Nupur sharma's hate speech against minorities that followed by the brutal killing of a Hindu man by two muslim radicals. The documentary starts in Jharkhand (2017) by telling the story of a lady named Mariam, whose husband got beaten up and killed by a hindu mob for trading beef. When Mr. Modi gave a speech that glorifies cows in the name of Hindu culture and he openly criticised those people who kill cows for its meat. Following this speech, many of the BJP ruling states had criminalised the possession of beef This speech is considered as a incitement to take violent actions against people who possess beef, like a state- sponsored program. Though Mr.Modi was silent over ...

Narendra Modi is one of the most controversial and paradoxical Prime minister, India ever had/having when it comes to his way of addressing Minority affairs in the largest democracy, so this documentary too.It starts with Mr. Modi's inflammatory speeches from the past in which he incites Hindu community to take a 'do or die' stand against India's muslim community. Then It flashes some protests against Citizenship amendment act in which Muslim community is evidently discriminated. Story No.1 The first statement is of a man named Imran Yakoob who's family got attacked by a Hindu mob , that killed 8 of his family members. This tension started in February 2002 when lots of Hindu pilgrims , travelling in a train got attacked by another mob at Godhra(Gujarat). The mob set the running train on fire , that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims. This incident was alleged against the Muslim community as a whole, which made them the victims of community targeting for the next three days. T...

 Arjun ashok, through his recent appearances in his films, has earned an easily relatable 'Boy who next door' image from malayalee audience. His latest release "Thattassery koottam" is just another example of it. Plot . The film features Sanju, a youngster who aspires to become a civil servant but taking his traditional livelihood of jewellery making for granted. He falls in love with a girl from wealthy family for her father, sanju's uncle worked for. He starts a jewellery shop by his own, with the help of his old uncle to elevate his family status in par with his love interest. But the jewellery shop got stolen by an organised criminals hail from Tamilnadu. Sanju and his friends chase the gang to get back their gold and to fix everything back. Positives . Its a feel good entertainer drawn in a countryside canvas. The beauty, comedy, relationships and family values of a village lifestyle is nicely reflected in each frames. Story is convincing and the actors made ...

Varisu is a musically powered family-action drama that forcefully tries to explore as many charisma as of the actor Vijay on screen. The film tells the story a buisness giant named Rajendran(Sarath kumar) and his family. His three sons, two of them aspires to become the next chairman of their Company, and Vijay the third one who is hesitant to be identified under his fathers glory. Rivalries between the two sons and the other buisness competitors are the challenges for Vijay who cares about his family more than anything else. The way he deals with all these after surprisingly assumed the chairmanship, balancing that with his family issues, is the backbone of the story. Positives . When it comes to a Vijay film he is everything of it. The same scenario repeats in varisu as well as he took the screentime and the story onto his shoulders effortlessly. His Dance, self referal dailogues from his earlier hits, comedy and action that defines a typical commercial films, are all exhibited in a ...