“With age comes wisdom,” they say. ‘They’ are obviously those who have aged. “Youth is wasted on the young,” they say that too. Yet, contrary to these grand assertions, many elderly people are often seen keeping their distance from all the (anti-oppressor) noise around them, resigning themselves to the notion that nothing is going to change and believing that money and power rule this world; “we are irrelevant,” thereby shamelessly adopting indifference. Still, many of us, at least while growing up, consider our parents flawless; the ones who can do…
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Arjun Ashokan, Mathew Thomas and three others injured as car topples during shooting of Malayalam movie Bromance | Malayalam News
As many as five people, including actors Arjun Ashokan, Mathew Thomas and Sangeeth Pratap, sustained injuries when the car they were in during the shooting of a stunt scene for an upcoming film reportedly overturned on MG Road in Kochi, Kerala, early on Saturday morning. The accident occurred during the filming of director Arun D Jose’s Bromance. During the shooting of a chase scene, The Hindu reported, the car, driven by the movie’s stunt choreographer and carrying Arjun, Mathew and Sangeeth, lost control, brushed another car and toppled. Meanwhile, a food…
Ullozhukku: Unseen but not unheard, the stand-out performer in Malayalam cinema’s thrilling new gem isn’t Parvathy or Urvashi, but a secret third lead | Malayalam News
There’s a reason behind this, of course — and we’ll get to it in a minute — but one artist has been routinely defying the tropes of mainstream Indian moviemaking, while invisibly elevating material to a level of excellence that would’ve eluded it otherwise. The new Malayalam film Ullozhukku, directed by Christo Tomy, is a claustrophobic psychological drama about two women trapped in man-made prisons both literal and imagined. It features a couple of incendiary central performances by Parvathy Thirovothu and Urvashi, themes that feel both evergreen and urgent, but…