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A woman’s refusal to be taken for granted, her journey towards self-realisation and her rebellion: Arya Dhayal’s new single, Kaade, has several layers to it. The track, written and sung by her, and produced and mixed by Varkey, keeps you hooked with the rhythm, the groove and Arya’s voice. Arya traces the birth of the…
Shahi Kabir has done what he does best again — tapping into his life as a former police officer and weaving hard-hitting narratives. The recent one being Ronth, his sophomore movie as director. A slow-burner, the story zooms into the life of two police officers, Yohannan (Dileesh Pothan) and Dinanath (Roshan Mathew), who are out…
For Vinod AK, his directorial debut, Moonwalk, is a trip down memory lane to an era when a generation was addicted to breakdance, Michael Jackson and, of course, the moonwalk. Vinod has packed it all in this slice-of-life narrative about a bunch of young men in the late ‘80s, who fell in love with the…
Sibi Chacko, the father of Malayalam actor Shine Tom Chacko, was killed in a road accident here on the Dharmapuri national highway near Palacode on Friday. (June 6, 2025). While the 70-year-old Sibi Chacko was killed on the spot, Shine Tom Chacko, along with his mother Maria Carmel (65), were injured and admitted to Dharmapuri…
Film set. Representational image (File) The draft of the much delayed policy for the Malayalam film industry will be presented for further discussions and amendments at the State government’s film conclave likely to be organised in the first week of August. According to sources who are part of the committee, a total of 75 meetings…
A still from the music video ‘Chenda Yakshi Pattu’ | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A bloodthirsty female ghost out to take revenge—that is the popular representation of yakshi in folklore, literature, films, etc. The single, ‘Chenda Yakshi Pattu’ is yet another take on this popular belief, visualised in a lyric video using AI and animated…
Actor Roshan Mathew’s sophomore directorial play Bye Bye Bypass, co-written with actor Shruti Ramachandran and screen writer and creative director Francis Thomas, is about a set of cousins of the Athimootil family, who lose their ancestral home to the construction of a bypass. The Malayalam play has been inspired by Roshan’s own, similar experience, which,…
Mani Ratnam unveils the first look of Madhoo’s ‘Chinna Chinna Aasai,’ co-starring Indrans | Photo Credit: @madhoo_rockstar/Instagram Ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam, who is awaiting the release of his filmThug Life, on Monday (May 19) unveiled the first look of the upcoming Malayalam movie Chinna Chinna Aasai, starring Madhoo and Indrans. The first look features the…
A page from ‘Davina Finds Her Vowels’ | Photo Credit: Kohan Kolam For years now, Elizabeth Keyton — popularly known as @eli.kutty on Instagram — has been using social media to not just learn Malayalam, but teach the language via interactive, creative learning tools. One such tool is her debut picture book, Davina Finds Her…
The cover of Fans Talkies by Mridul George | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Writer Joseph Annamkutty Jose in his preface to Fans Talkies, a collection of Malayalam fanfiction (fanfic) short stories by techie-scenarist Mridul George, reminisces about how his older brother, rather nonchalantly ruined for him the happily-ever-after of the Malayalam film Aniyathipravu. They left…
