Ee Pattanathil Bhootham released

Johny Antony who has engraved his own brand name in Malayalam cinema Industry with bright humor entertainers, which are more of interest to children He is now back with Ee Pattanathil Bhootham featurisng super star Mammootty.

The story revolves around adventure tales in Balarama. Unlike the balarama which attract children and elders, this film seems to uphold only the attention of children.

A wicked magician gets the power above a Bhootham. He plans to employ it for his filthy actions. He however loses Bhootham in an accident and it gets into the hands of kids in the circus tent. It was the time when a foul play has taken place over the possession of this circus. Kavya madhavan arrives as the daughter of circus proprietor played by Janardhanan who gets killed. What go after are clash between good and the evil.

Mammootty do a double act of Bhootham as well as Jimmy, the circus stunt man. Mammooty’s character Jimmy is eye candy while his second character won’t appeal much, mostly due to the childlike voice which may get misidentified.

Animation done in film is noticeable to the eyes of every other viewer who are watching visual amusement. Comedy by Suraj Venjaramood and Salim Kumar is good. Music is by Shaan.

Sathyan Anthikad back with "Bhagya devatha"

Direction: Sathyan Anthikad
Camera: Venu
Cast & Crew: Jayaram, Kanihaa, Narain, Innocent, Mamu Koya, , Nedumudi Venu, K.P.A.C. Lalitha.
Music Ilayaraja
Producer: M.M. Hamza
Banner: Kala Sangham


Sathyan Anthikad's is once again back with his new film Bhagyadevata This Malayalam film is yet another masterpiece, after Sathyan Anthikad's super hit family entertainer Achuvinte Amma (2005), Rasathanthram (2006) and Vinodhayathra (2007). After a unexciting start, this family entertainer, Malayalam movie, set in the green background of Kerala's Kuttanad area, is now running house full in all theatres across the state.

Bhagyadevata’s storyline revolve around Benny (character of Jayaram), a farmer and local cable television operator in Kuttanad. Benny’s family has his widowed mother, two sisters Sali & Sophy, and his grandmother. In their life struggle, Benny often find himself on the losing side in many setbacks. Benny is continuously searching for venturing to some business that would make him financially strong. Benny's friend Sadanandan (Nedumuni Venu) gives him the idea of buying a used fishing boat. Toget finance for the boat, he also suggests that Benny should get married for a large dowry. Benny marries a state agriculture officer's daughter Daisy (Kanihaa) hopeful to get dowry of five Lakh rupees.

However, Daisy's father (Venu Nagavalli) fails to give amount on the day of marriage. He asks for a three months time. In the meantime, Daisy becomes the dear of his home, but Benny, who had intended things, based on the dowry and even paid an advance for a fishing boat, feels cheated and becomes distressed. He tells his wife that he will not approve the marriage unless he gets the money. Things take a different twist from that point.

Jayaram is indeed perfect for his role. cinematographer Venu and Ilayaraja has done a great job. Kanihaa looks perfect as a Christian girl from a rural surroundings, though her character has few dialogues in the movie. Most of Sathyan Anthikkad's trusted actors including Innocent, Mammukoya, K.P.A.C. Lalitha and Narein have perfect roles. Even the two girls who played the role of Jayaram's sisters and the owner of the fishing boat have performed well to make the movie perfect.

Black Dahlia : Its Crime thriller Season Again!

Black Dalia
M.K. Productions
Director : Baburaj
Camera : P.Sukumar
Dialogue : Sajo Panayankode
Lead roles: Suresh Gopi,Vani Viswanath, Baburaj
Music: Sayan Anwar
Lyrics : I.S.Kundoor, Jeofi Tharakan, Dr.Deepak Shah
Producer : M.K. Muhammed

Yes Malayalam movie industry witnesses yet another thriller. Baburaj has came with this murder story and the movie is expected to be a trend maker in Malayalam cinema.
The director of the movie seems to have succeeded in extracting full potential of his actors. Pavithra performs the role of a trouble maker has done perfectly well. The performance delivered by the character Samantha who played the role of the head of the group is truly talented.

The director of this new Malayalam movie has premeditated his subject well. The suspense is also good. But the climax part could have been finished better. Special appearance of Remya Nambeeshan and Lakshmi Gopala swamy in song sequence is good even though it was unrelated in this new Malayalam film.

To conclude with, Black Dahlia, this new Malayalam movie is an average thriller. This investigative thriller malayalam movie has many resemblances with the Hollywood horror flick ‘I know what you did last summer’!.

Director Lal back with "To Harihar Nagar"

Lal is back again with a mega hit movie 2 Harihar Nagar. The movie is indeed a super his. We have seen a lot of Malayalam cinemas released a second parts becoming flops. But in the case of 2 Harihar Nagar, all precedence were broken. The characters in the movie in HariharNagar came live once again. Appukkuttan, Mahadevan, Govindan Kutty and Thomas Kutty were all perfect in their come back.

The plot starts when heroine Lakshmi Rai comes to stay in the colony, Harihar Nagar. The film plots runs round the mannerisms and behaviors of the four heroes even after marriage. Rohini plays the role of an engineer (Mahadevan's wife), Lena plays the role of a financial adviser based in Dubai (Govindan Kutty's wife), Reena acts a doctor (Appukuttan's wife) and Rakhi as a housewife (Thomas Kutty's wife). Appukuttan (Jagadish), who is dentist. He is married with 2 kids, but still retains his crazy, slightly abnormal nature. Mahadeven (Mukesh), Govindan Kutty (Siddique) and Thomas Kutty (Ashokan) has become 10 years younger by meeting their friends after a long period. The film starts in 1980 in front of a church where their friendship begins and ends in the same church.
The creativity and humour sense of Lal, the director has played a great role in the success of the film.

Nayanthara and Dilip in Body Guard

Producer: Johnny Sagarika
Direction: Siddique
Cast : Dileep, Nayantara, Mithra, Thyagarajan, Pakru (Ajayan), Janardhanan, Zeenath, Harisri Ashokan, Nandu, Anil Murali, Cochin Haneefa, Seema.G.Nair
Music Direction: Ouseppachan
Lyrics: Kaithapram, Anil Panachooran

Story, Screenplay : Siddique

A brief outline of the film Body Guard

Veteran Malayalam director Siddique collaborates with actor Dileep for the first time in body guard. After hit movies like Friends, Hitler & Chronic Bachelor, Siddique is set for a major come back to Malayalam film industry with body guard. Nayan Thara will be taking the lead role in the movie. The shooting of the movie is almost completed in locationslike Kottayam Palkkad and so on. Nayan thara, though had the starting of her film career in Malayalam then migrated to Tamil cinema and became one of the top rated heroines there. This is after 4 years that Nayan Thara is making a comeback to a Malayalam movie.
As expected, the movie is sure to be stuffed with comedy &romance. As the movie name implies, Dillep will be playing the role of a Bodyguard of Nayanthara named Jayakrishnan. From his childhood, Jayakrishnan was always fascinated by cops. The way the cops caught the bad people and also solved crimes brought in a desire within himself to become a cop. But, when he knew that there were some special people who could do more crooked work than a cop he wanted to be one lik that. He also had the habit of following and helping people whom he admired the most. This is how he meets a a liquor baron called Ahokan. The role of Ashokan is played by Tamil veteran actor Thyagarajan. Jayakrishnan somehow wants Ashokan to let him be his bodyguard. But Ashokan blindly refuses the deal. But Jayakrishnan does not let go of him and brings some reccommended letters from some important people. At last Ashokan agrees. Along with Ashokan, Jayakrishnan is also appointed to be the bodyguard of his daughter Ammu, which is played by Nayanthara. The rest of the story is supposed to be full of comedy and twists. The film also features in the cast debutante actress Mithra (real name Dalma).
The movie will reach theatres by the end of May. Do no forget to watch it

Arabikkatha : Srinivasan at his Best

Lal Jose, the director with a difference has always surprised his audience with a variety in story telling and presentation. His movie Arabikkatha which tells the story of a hard core communist is one such surprise. In the movie Arabikkatha Srinivasan enacts the lead role as Mukundan always caleed Cuba Mukundan as he is a fan of Cuba and its communist outlook.
The film deals with contemporary Kerala politics and also brings to the screen, the problems of pravasi malayalees and fight for justice. The story also demonstrates the destiny of a man who strongly upholds justice and how he becomes incompetent in the current political scenario.
Mukundans father, who was a core communist was trapped in a cheating case and his father dies in grief. The burden of paying back the huge debt becomes Mukundan’s duty. The plot develops this way and the strong script offers Sreenivasan the great actor an opportunity to perform at his best. Mukundan , the character enacted by Srinivasan is thus forced to leave for Dubai in search of a Job. In Dubai, Mukundan is subjected to harsh work environment and is forced to do things which he hated and against which he has always fought against .
There he meets a girl (Chang Shu Min) and the story revolves among these characters.
The cast of the movie includes, Samvritha Sunil, Jagathy Sreekumar, Indrajeeth, Jayasurya, Saadique, Suraaj, Nedumudi Venu and salim Kumar.

Kavaya madhavan got married

Kavya Madhavan, the dream girl of Malayalam film industry got married to Nishal Chandra, Son of Sri.Chandramohan Nair and Smt.Mani Mohan The wedding took place on 5th February, 2009 at Kollur Mookambika Temple. Kavya Madhavan, who started her career in malayalam Film as a child actor conquered the hearts of Malayalee film viewers in s short span of time. Her capability to handle all kinds of roles made her the queen of malayalam cinema. Unlike many other actresses she was very cautious not to select too much of glamorous and sexy roles. All characters of Kavya Madhavan were modest characters and hence malayalees embraced them all.

Malayalam Cinema : A long History

The first Malayalam film, titled Vigathakumaran, was released in 1928. It was a silent film, produced and directed by a businessman with no prior film experience, J. C. Daniel. The second film ,Marthanda Varma, based on a novel by C. V. Raman Pillai, was produced in 1933.
Ramu Karyat, the director of Neelakkuyil went on to become a celebrated director in the 1960's and 1970's. P. Bhaskaran also directed a few acclaimed films in the 1960's. The cameraman of Neelakkuyil, A. Vincent also became a noted director of the 1960's and 1970's. Notable films of this decade include Odeyil Ninnu, Bhargavi Nilayam (1964), Chemmeen (1965), Murappennu (1965) and Iruttinte Atmavu (1966).
The 70s saw the emergence of a new wave of cinema in Malayalam. The growth of film society movement in Kerala introduced the works of the French and Italian New Wave directors to the discerning Malayali film enthusiasts. Adoor Gopalakrishnan's first film Swayamvaram (1972) brought Malayalam cinema to the international film arena.