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Cora Devries
I have now seen 3 Malayalam films! Tied with my 3 Telegu, but beating my 2 Tamil. But if re-watching counts, Malayalam is going to double pretty soon. Because I loooooooved this movie, and I will be watching it over and over and over again.
The plot, in five sentences, is: Teenage girl has a massive crush on older local boy, stalks him, gets to know his family, and finally admits her feelings. Local boy rejects her (nicely) and encourages her to finish school and focus on her future. 5 years later, they meet again when his mother is at her hospital. Finally, she comes back home after med school, still in love with him, and gets to know him again by volunteering with the community group he organized. And at the end, he proposes to her and it turns out he has been in love with her all along! Is that 5 sentences? Yes! It is! I am so proud of myself!
I loved how long we spent getting to know her and her family and her life before the plot happened. She was just so loveable! And clearly everyone loved her, there was a definite feeling of the whole town, even when they were mad at her, being in her corner.
And I loved their first meeting! How high school it was, her and her friends standing there awkwardly in shorts and t-shirts, and then him striding in being all grown up and amazing. And then the rest of it, her going on that obvious quest to learn more about him in the bluntest way possible, which just made her look more high school and everything she found out made him look way too out of her reach.
And then the return to the village and her working her way back into his life with the community marriages, again so self-interested! And then at the end, the whole thing with her cousin coming back and paying off! Again, the world just felt so lived in, with the people involved in the final bit being people we had already met before and everything coming together.
This movie makes me so happy. It is a woman centered film, which really feels radical. Not just her story, but a female gaze to the whole thing. The ending is just so blissfully satisfying. So glad you loved it!!
Okay, so when she finds out his marriage has been arranged to that other girl, her wine aunty is just taking out a special ceramic jar. Which is broken when she breaks the news. Is that the exact same wine her aunt put down on the day Giri came and the aunt figured it out years earlier?
Mostly, it felt like the final touch of gender flip. I mean, how many movies are there where the heroine is in love, but still obediently marries who her parents pick unless the hero can find a way to stop the wedding?
Is your Malayali friend back home to celebrate Onam leaving you companionless to watch the upcoming Mollywood releases and top-streaming movies? Fear not, here is our guide to some of the recent Malayalam movies that are now streaming on Amazon Prime and Hotstar that you don't want to miss.
Mammootty is back in the police uniform once again. What is different this time is that he lands no more than a single slap on the villains in the entire movie. That's right. And how many shots does he fire? Ready to get surprised again as you watch this Khalid Rahman movie. Inspired by true events, the south-Indian superstar plays Sub Inspector Mani of the Kerala police who is in the red-corridor of Bastar with a band of young policemen on election duty. Underequipped and unfit to take on the ruthless ultras, the group pin their hope on the never-arriving "undas" (bullets) to save their lives. Unda is moving due to many reasons. We see a tribal Keralite empathising with the kids of Chattisgarh as he faces humiliation from his own colleagues for having everything easy in life through "reservation". We see a middle-aged policeman, who has never fired anybody or been fired upon, sitting down hopelessly at an emergency juncture. If you loved Raj Kumar Rao's Newton, you will love this one too.
Dulquer Salmaan appears in a cameo role but it doesn't make this one of his movies. Popular actor Soubin Shahir's directorial debut is impressive as it breaks the stereotyping of Muslim lives that Mollywood serves to you time after time. Ichappi (Amal Shah) and Haseeb (Govind V Pai) are crazy about the pigeon racing and dream of winning the local championship. The same pigeons are used as the link to narrate a painful past that changed the lives of so many people around the two boys, especially Shane (Shane Nigam), Irshad's elder brother. As the two boys explore their adolescent fantasies, we also come to terms with the bitter relationship between Shane and his father (Siddique) and his choice to stay detached from his friends and ladylove. Shane seeks revenge, but can it give back his normal life? This beautifully crafted movie won't disappoint you any day.
At one hand, we have a home with no women and inhabited by three hopeless and lost bothers, and in the other, there is a home of women who have got a male member after a long time. So what happens when love makes these families at two extremes of the Kerala society collide? Probably the best movie of the year, Syam Pushkaran's Kumbalangi Night rips through "toxic masculinity" as it rightly needs to be. Fahadh is once again brilliant as the thick-moustached alpha male, who demands complete servitude from the women of the house, while Soubin Shahir grows beyond expectations as a man with no self-respect and hope. The chemistry between Bobby (Shane) and Baby(Anna Ben) are one of the sweetest that we have seen in recent times, with both of them being brutally honest and delightfully cute. The movie makes an honest attempt to restore our faith in humanity as we see the good-for-nothing brothers turn job-seekers. The scenic shots of Kumbalangi adds charm to this beautifully crafted movie.
One of the finest period dramas made ever in Malayalam, this Amal Neerad movie narrates a tale of invasion and revenge in the post-colonial Kerala. Soon after the Britishers left, Iyob (Lal) takes over as the unquestionable lord of the Munnar hills, brutally dominating the tribal and peasant population. Unaware of the changing times and the proletariat political movement gaining momentum in the hills, Iyob resumes his crusade for wealth and power along with with his equally brutal sons Ivan and Dmitri. Trouble begins in the family following the return of his youngest son Aloshy (Fahadh Faasil), from the Navy who finds his family's domination over the helpless tenants unacceptable. The power struggle among the brothers intensifies, paving way for a cunning Angoor Rawther (Jayasurya) to enter Munnar. As the monopoly of the family slowly breaks down, realisations strike old Iyob one after another but he is far too gone to rectify anything. Almost everything is perfect about Iyobinte Pusthakam but its incredible cinematography deserves special mention. The movie has some of the finest one-liners that thrilled Malayali viewers in recent times. Fahad is spectacular as always and there are not many others who can bring the war-hardened but warmhearted Aloshy to life. The supporting cast including Padmapriya, Lal, Vinayakan Jinu Joseph and others also fair equally well.
Directed by Rajiv Ravi, Kammatipaadam won Vinayakan the Kerala State Award for the best actor. The story is an ode to the displaced and disrespected community upon whose sweat and blood the metro city of Ernakulam was constructed. Krishnan (Dulquer Salmaan) is forced to revisit his past that he had buried long back, after receiving a distress call from his childhood partner in crime Ganga (Vinayakan). Though he owes Ganga nothing, the unfinished conversation brings him back home where some "unfinished business" awaits him... A bloody revenge tale on the outside Kammatipaadam remains truthful and passionate about the politics it discusses. We see a young man cursing his granddad for putting his generation in a tough spot by passing on to them nothing but "useless" agrarian lifestyle to the same guy being demoted to just a "toughie" from "partner" in an important meeting. Manikandan R Achari also puts up a strong performance in the movie that gives you a lot to think about as the credits start rolling.
A young couple sets out to celebrate one of their birthdays only to be harassed and blackmailed for an entire night by two men disguised as policemen. The young man's male ego is hurt when his lover remains mum to his questions about "what happened" behind the closed door with just her and the man inside. He vows revenge and sets out to track down the man's wife to give him a taste of his own medicine. Shane Nigam and Ann Sheethal play Sachi and Vasudha, while Shine Chacko is intimidating as Alvin the ambulance driver. With having avenged for the humiliation they went through, Sachi kneels before his love with the wedding ring only to be surprised yet again. Ishq's closing scene is one of the finest you are likely to see for a long time and make us rethink about our concept of love.
This one's plot is simple, yet important yet relevant. Having had enough of stalking and moral policing by some abusive locals, a "varathan" (outsider) and decides to take them on - confident that the Judiciary has got his back. The movie clearly exposes multiple social depravities that we often tend to bail out on the accounts of "rural lifestyle" and "traditions." A free adaptation of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971), Abi's (Fahad Faasil) final transformation into the fearless tough guy is worthy of watching though not entirely convincing. Amal Neerad is once again in full command of his craft throughout the movie. Aishwarya Lekshmi is convincing as the bold heroine ho has no issues pulling a trigger or two, while Sharf u-Dheen matures into a shameless villain from his routine comical roles.
You don't get to watch a decent medical thriller every day. Based on the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala's Kozhikode district, this Aashiq Abu movie will give you a chill or two. The movie narrates how the government machinery functioned during one of the darkest times of modern Kerala - trying to contain the deadly outbreak as soon as possible along with managing the panicking people. However, the emotional elements attached to illness and death are not excluded in the process.
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