InterviewNegha won the Kerala state film award for her performance in the Malayalam film ‘Antharam’.Cris"N-e-g-h-a." Negha spells out her name twice to make sure it does not come out wrong. People have been misspelling it at several places, she says, ever since she won a Kerala State Film Award this year. Negha S is from the south of Tamil Nadu, near Thanjavur, and has been living and working in Chennai for years. But her first award and the first notable role in a feature film has come from a Malayalam movie, Antharam. And for her performance in Antharam, she was announced the winner of a special award instituted by the Kerala government for films of women and transgender persons. Negha became the first trans woman to win the award. She was working as a mental health counsellor at an Ngo in Chennai when she slipped into the world of showbiz.
- 6/22/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
ReviewThe film, directed by Kamal Km and based on real events, features Kunchacko Boban, Vinayakan, Joju George and Dileesh Pothan in the lead.CrisScreenshot from 'Pada'Building tension moment by moment and then maintaining it for two whole hours of a movie has to be an art. In Pada, Kamal Km’s new film, there is at first the suspense of not knowing what’s happening, then the happening itself, and then the anxiety of how it will end. Going against the usual long disclaimers of distancing itself from any real incident, the film starts off by saying it is based on true events. Actors Kunchacko Boban, Vinayakan, Joju George and Dileesh Pothan appear from four different corners and barely let you breathe, as a very important story about Adivasi rights gets told. If by retelling the incident more than 25 years later, Kamal – the film’s writer and director – meant to...
- 3/11/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
MollywoodThe film, directed by Kamal Km, has a bevy of talented actors including Dileesh Pothan, Unnimaya Prasad, Kani Kusruti and Prakash Raj.Tnm StaffSomething is brewing. Three men are walking briskly from different directions. There is tension in the air. You expect a poorly planned crime, maybe a kidnapping mission or a bank robbery or worse an explosion. That’s the kind of scary picture the teaser of the new Malayalam film Pada presents. Three talented actors – Joju George, Vinayakan and Kunchacko Boban – play these three men we just described. The film is written and directed by Kamal Km, who once made a well-appreciated movie called ID. Kamal is not a director to stop with three great actors, he has included in his film the talented Indrans, Dileesh Pothan, Prakash Raj, Unnimaya Prasad, Shine Tom Chacko, Salim Kumar, Kani Kusruti, Sajitha Madathil, Sudheer Karamana, Tg Ravi and a whole lot of other actors.
- 8/22/2021
- by Cris
- The News Minute
MollywoodThe film will have Shruti Ramachandran playing the female lead.Digital NativeJayasurya’s next film in the pipeline will be with director Prasobh Vijayan of Lilli fame. The film will have Shruti Ramachandran playing the female lead and will be bankrolled jointly by Mukesh R Mehta, Av Anoop and CV Sarathi under the banner of E4 Entertainment. The official pooja ceremony has been done and the film is on the floors. The technical crew of this film includes Francis Thomas for scripting, Ratheesh Ravi for dialogues, Anarsha for camera work, Jakes Bejoy for music and Vishnu Govind and Sree Sankar of Sound Factory for sound designing. It may be noted here that Prasobh Vijayan’s Lilli was a revenge thriller, written and directed by him. It was produced by Mukesh R Mehta and CV Sarathi under the banner E4 Experiments and distributed by E4 Entertainment. Incidentally, the same producers are...
- 3/31/2019
- by Cris
- The News Minute
MollywoodThe actors rise to the occasion, each one delivering a sincere performance, but the flawed script lets them down.CrisYou can’t say it was shocking. The movie had been quite clear about carrying violent content. Lilli was not going to be a fairy tale. But then it didn’t seem to have any tale to tell at all. It’s like the makers decided there should be a movie with some violence and later, said let’s think of a story that will fit in there somewhere. Pregnant Lilli (Samyuktha Menon) gets a call in the middle of the night – something has happened to her husband Ajith. So at 3 in the morning, she takes her car out. You have your usual questions then – why didn’t she call someone, why would she drive without clearly hearing anything? But you can reason she would have got tense, fearing the worst for her husband,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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