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Here’s Suniel Shetty from the sets of Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham

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Here’s Suniel Shetty from the sets of Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham

‘Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham’ shoot is currently progressing at Ramoji Rao Film City, Hyderabad. Directed by Priyadarshan, the movie has Mohanlal playing the role of Kunjali Marakkar. Others in the cast include Pranav Mohanlal, Kalyani Priyadarshan, Mukesh, Fazil, Keerthy Suresh, Manju Warrier and Pooja Kumar.

Latest to join the cast is Bollywood star Suniel Shetty. A couple of new stills from the movie’s sets are doing the rounds in social medias. He is seen wearing a warrior attire in the photos. With his ripped physique, the actor looks convincing as a fierce warrior. A regular in Priyadarshan’s Hindi films, Suneil Shetty will be making his Malayalam debut with Marakkar.

‘Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham’ is touted as one of the most expensive movies ever made in Malayalam cinema. The movie is being produced by Mohanlal’s Aashirvad Cinemas, Confident Group and Moonshot Entertainment are jointly producing the movie. Production designer Sabu Cyril, cinematographer Tirru, editor MS Ayyappan Nair and a Los Angeles-based VFX studio are part of the technical crew.

Excellent weekend bookings for Vijay Superum Pournamiyum

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Excellent weekend bookings for Vijay Superum Pournamiyum

‘Vijay Superum Pournamiyum’ (VSP) continues to garner good response from the audience. After a pretty decent run during the week days, theatres are witnessing good occupancy in this weekend. Releasing on January 11, movie opened to largely positive reviews from all corners. Critics and common audience alike have rated the movie as a clean feel-good entertainer. Families comprise the large section of the audience.

‘Vijay Superum Pournamiyum’ directed by Jis Joy has Asif Ali and Aishwarya Lekshmi in the leads. The movie has Asif playing an engineering drop out while Aishwarya essays the role of a MBA graduate. Jis Joy has scripted the movie with prominence to humour, friendship, romance and family sentiments. The movie discusses about how two individuals coming from different backgrounds struggle to make an identity of their own.

‘Vijay Superum Pournamiyum’ is most likely to have a long run with the help of family audience. Along with the lead pair, the movie has an elaborate supporting cast comprising of Shanthi Krishna, Renji Panicker, Devan, Siddique, KPAC Lalitha, Balu Varghese, Dhanya Rajendran and Joseph Annamkutty Jose.

AK Sunil is producing ‘Vijay Superum Pournamiyum’ under the banner of New Surya Films

Praana Review: Nithya Menen is excellent in this supernatural thriller

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Praana Review: Nithya Menen is excellent in this supernatural thriller

VK Prakash’s latest outing Praana had piqued the curiosity of cinephiles right from the time of its announcement as it has only Nithya as part of the cast. Made as a multilingual in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi, the movie has some big names like Resul Pookutty and PC Sreeram associated with it.

Praana has Nithya playing a celebrated and controversial writer, Tara Anuradha, advocating for freedom in these intolerant times with her latest book ‘Music For Freedom’. She decides to go stay in a haunted house to prove a point that there’s no such thing as ghosts and what’s in store for her in that house forms the crux. It is a supernatural thriller that works mostly for its atmospherics and timely politics about freedom and intolerance that doesn’t let you live the way you might want to — in these trying times.

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Director VK Prakash never lets you feel there is only one actor in the movie and has succeeded to a great extent in keeping the audience glued to the screen till the end, despite the predictability of its proceedings. Resul Pookutty’s sound design is one reason that warrants a watch in a screen equipped with the best sound system available. PC Sreeram’s visuals, as always, are a class apart.

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Praana has its share of flaws but works big time in conveying a satisfactory picture of our times. And last but not the least, this is unarguably Nithya Menen’s best performance till date — bringing out vulnerabilities of her portrayal with such authenticity. There is also a superstar’s voice cameo in the film.

On the whole, Praana is a very daring attempt from VK Prakash that deserves a watch in big screen.

– Vivek Santhosh

Mikhael Review: A fairly engaging revenge drama

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Mikhael Review: A fairly engaging revenge drama

Despite being just two-film-old Haneef Adeni has carved a niche for himself in the industry. His movie making style has already become familiar with the mainstream audience and enjoys a considerable popularity as well. After teaming up with Mammootty for his first two films (one as a director and the other as a writer), Adeni joins hands with Nivin Pauly for ‘Mikhael’. Let’s see how their collaboration has turned out to be.

Mikhael has a simple family drama cum revenge story but it comes with a bizarrely sketched non-linear screenplay. There are a whole lot of negative characters and they are all against one man, the hero – Dr Michael aka Mikhael. Haneef’s obsession with Biblical verses/Christianity continue as the movie has umpteen references from the holy book and some obvious metaphors like the hero’s pendant and the wall painting.

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Nivin Pauly has tried his best to step in the shoes of a mass action hero and succeeds only partially. His physique makes it tough to perform the stunts and unfortunately the movie has too many of them. But Mikhael has to be his ‘massiest’ avatar after that brief college portion in ‘Premam’. Haneef Adeni, who has already proven his ability to play to the gallery, has placed enough such moments to excite the fans.

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Mikhael has a solid supporting cast and almost everyone has performed well. It was refreshing to see Siddique in a cold-blooded villain role after a long while. Though Unni Mukundan has only limited screentime, he still manages to impress with his extremely good looks and the demeanour of a brooding villain. Suraj Venjaramoodu is a poised and sound cop, while JD Chakravarthy, an actor with immense talent, also has a pretty decent role. The young girl who played the sister’s role also performed her part well.

Making wise, ‘Mikhael’ seemed to continue just from where ‘The Great Father’ and ‘Abrahaminte Santhathikal’ stopped. Gopi Sunder’s background score is massy but comes across as unintentionally funny in some portions.

Overall, ‘Mikhael’ is a fairly engaging flick that has its share of moments to interest the common audience.

Here’s a video of Pranav Mohanlal doing surfing in Irupathiyonnam Noottandu

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Here’s a video of Pranav Mohanlal doing surfing in Irupathiyonnam Noottandu

Pranav Mohanlal starrer ‘Irupathiyonnaam Noottaandu’ is scheduled for release during the Republic Day weekend. Written and directed by Arun Gopy, the movie has Pranav in the role of an adventure junkie. It has been confirmed that the actor plays a surfing instructor in the movie. The makers had shot his surfing portions in Bali. A video of the actor doing risky surfing in mid sea is currently doing the rounds in social medias.

According to director Arun Gopy, besides the market value, Pranav’s physical flexibility to play a surfer’s role was the reason behind casting him in the movie. Since he is used to doing gymnastics, skydiving and rock climbing, Pranav has a fluid and flexible body language. His ability to do swift action was seen in the Parkour fights in ‘Aadhi’.

‘Irupathiyonnam Noottandu’ is touted as an action packed thriller. Debutante Zaya David plays the female lead. Others in the cast include Gokul Suresh, Siddique, Innocent, Abhirav, G Suresh Kumar, Manoj K Jayan, Dharmajan Bolgatty, Bijukuttan, Tini Tom and Kannada actor Harish Raj.

Tomichan Mulakupadam is producing the movie under his banner Mulakupadam Films.

Check out Mammootty’s dubbing for Yatra!

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Check out Mammootty’s dubbing for Yatra!

The YSR biopic Yatra is getting ready for a grand release in February. The movie written and directed by Mahi V Raghav has Mammootty playing late Andhra Pradeesh CM YS Rajasekhar Reddy. Mammootty has put in a lot of efforts to play this challenging character. The actor’s voice modulation in the movie’s promo videos were highly appreciated. The makers have released a new video of Mammootty dubbing for the character and the efforts put in by him to get the pronunciation right is evident. Fans and cinephiles alike are eagerly waiting to see his performance as the late leader, YSR.

Yatra is not exactly a biopic, but an event based film. It primarily focuses on the time during YSR’s famous three-month-long padayatra in 2003, which was a changing point in his political career. YSR is a highly respected politician in Andhra Pradesh. Even after his demise, he is still regarded as the people’s leader and respected by millions in the Telugu states.

Vijay Chilla and Shashi Devi Reddy are jointly producing the movie under their banner of 70MM Entertainments. As per reports, the movie will be released in three languages – Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil – simultaneously. The movie will have its USA premiere on February 7 while the theatrical release will be on the next day. Yatra is getting ready as the biggest ever release in Mammootty’s career.

Here’s the first look of OP 160/18 Kakshi : Amminipilla

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Here’s the first look of OP 160/18 Kakshi : Amminipilla

The first look poster of Asif Ali’s new film OP 160/18 Kakshi : Amminipilla was released by actor Prithviraj today through his official social media handle. This intriguingly designed poster has a perplexed looking Asif, as a lawyer, and a couple is also seen sitting behind him. Asif is also seen holding the marriage law’s book and Karl Marx’s Das Kapital in the other. Portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and Marx are also seen in the background.

Debutant Dinjith Ayyathan is directing this movie, which has Asif playing an advocate for the first time in his career. The movie scripted by Sanilesh Shivan is an unusual court-room drama happening in Thalassery. It is centred around an unusual case of a newly wed couple Shajith Kumar aka Amminipilla and his wife Kanthi.

Ammini Pilla approaches advocate Pradeepan Manjodi, a political aspirant who initially refuses, later he takes up the case, changing the perspective giving the story line a twist. This realistic court drama unveils interesting case from different layers with humour and emotions.

The movie’s supporting cast includes Vijayaraghavan, Nirmal Palazhy, Sudhesh, Mamukoya, Basil Joseph, Ahamed Siddique, Sreekanth Murali, Lukman, Babu Annur, Aswathy Manoharan, Shibla and Sarayu Mohan. On the technical front, cinematography is handled by Bahul Ramesh and edits are by Sooraj ES. Arun Muraleedharan and Samuel Aby are composing the songs and Jakes Bejoy is in charge of the music department. Riju Rajan is producing the movie under the banner of Zarah Films.

Mammootty allots four months dates for Ameer!

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Mammootty allots four months dates for Ameer!!

Mammootty had earlier announced that he will be teaming up with director Vinod Vijayan for a big-budget flick titled, ‘Ameer’. Haneef Adeni of ‘The Great Father’ and ‘Abrahaminte Santhathikal’ fame is scripting the movie. The movie has Mammootty playing the role of an underworld don comes with tbe tagline ‘confessions of a don’. As per latest reports, the movie will start rolling in April and Mammootty has allotted around four months dates from his busy schedule.

‘Ameer’ will have Mammootty appearing in multiple looks. If reports are to believed, the movie will be made on a massive budget of over Rs 40 crores. It is shaping up as one of the biggest movies in the veteran star’s career in terms of budget. The makers have planned to shoot the movie extensively in Dubai.

‘Ameer’ has Gopi Sunder handling the music department. Some other leading technicians from the industry will be associated with the movie. An official announcement with details regarding the full cast and crew members will be made shortly. The movie will be produced by Sreelekshmi R and Shankar Raj R. Bhupen Tacho and Jeethu Goghi are the co-producers.

Looking forward to sharing screen space with Mammootty sir: Sunny Leone

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Looking forward to sharing screen space with Mammootty sir: Sunny Leone

We were among the first to report about Sunny Leone performing a special dance number in Mammootty’s ‘Madura Raja’. The actress will making her debut appearance in Malayalam with this movie. In a recent interview, Sunny called it an amazing opportunity and revealed that she is eagerly looking forward to sharing screen space with a legendary actor like Mammootty.

According to Sunny, the song has not been included in the movie just for the sake of it. Instead, it comes at a very crucial juncture and takes the plot forward. This peppy number composed by Gopi Sunder will have Mammootty also shaking legs with Sunny. The will be in Kochi next week for the song shoot, but she has already started rehearsing.

Meanwhile, the first look poster of ‘Madura Raja’, which was released last day continues to trend virally in social medias. Though the response has been mixed, the poster clearly indicates what to expect from the movie. The poster has Mammootty standing over a pile of bodies with an iron rod in his hand. Fans especially are eagerly awaiting to see Mammootty’s mass avatar.

This Vysakh directorial is a spin-off on Mammootty’s character from his 2010 blockbuster film, ‘Pokkiri Raja’. Udhayakrishna, who wrote the original along with Sibi K Thomas, has scripted this one independently. Shoot for the movie is nearing completion and is scheduled for a grand Vishu release in April.

Vijay Sethupathi to play a musician in his next

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Vijay Sethupathi to play a musician in his next

Vijay Sethupathi’s penchant for trying a variety roles of continues. In his next film with debutant director Venkata Krishna Roganth, the actor will be seen playing the role of a musician. As per trustworthy reports, the movie will be set in the backdrop of Christmas and New Year celebrations and will focus on an international issue. Music plays a major role in the movie, so the makers have signed talented young composer Nivas K Prasanna. Chandra Arts is producing the movie which will be commencing in March. Munnar, Kodaikanal and Ooty are the major locations.

Vijay Sethupathi has a handful of films coming up and most of them are highly promising. Recently, on his birthday, the title and first look poster of his new movie was released. Titled as ‘Sindhubaadh’, the movie is directed by SU Arun Kumar, who has previously helmed ‘Pannaiyarum Padminiyum’ and ‘Sethupathi’, both starring Vijay Sethupathi. The actor’s next release will be the long awaited ‘Super Deluxe’, directed by Thiagaraja Kumararaja of ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ fame.

Vijay Sethupathi is currently shooting for ‘Maamanithan’, directed by his mentor Seenu Ramasamy’s. He is also making his Malayalam debut this year with ‘Marconi Mathai’ directed by Sanil Kalathil. He will be playing one of the leads in the movie alongside Jayaram.