Written by Aishwarya Ajayan & Ananth Krishna The decision by the producers of seven films, including those of major Bollywood release Gulabo Sitabo, to release the films digitally sparked pushback from the Multiplex chains. This points to the lasting effects that the COVID-19 pandemic might have on the film industry.The film industry is under great duress due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, so much so that it has its own Wikipedia article.  Film production has almost in its entiret

A special post on Mohanlal’s sixtieth birthday. I am far from a film aficionado. I am at the most a casual viewer of cinema. As someone interested in politics and culture, films present an opportunity to observe social, cultural and political changes in real-time as well as an opportunity to sit back and enjoy them. To any Malayali, Mammootty and Mohanlal evoke strong emotions (granted there are a small minority of psychopaths that do not). These superstars have shaped the Ma

Lucifer, the Malayalam political action starring Mohanlal, has all the elements of a masala blockbuster (as it became the biggest earning film of all time in Malayalam), but it has a lot of political (and biblical) references. While I am not fit to interpret the biblical references, I cannot let the political references go by without any comment. [If you haven’t watched the movie, nothing below will make sense to you] *SPOILER ALERT* read the plot if you haven’t seen the film

I watched “Black Panther” the ‘critically acclaimed’ Marvel movie that was released a few weeks ago. It was quite an average superhero movie, and not something that should have received the attention it has received, along with critical acclaim. The movie’s plot by itself is not particularly unique in my opinion. I was however intrigued by the conflict between T’Challa (the heir apparent) and N’Jadaka (the cousin/challenger) and between their ‘ideologies’ so to speak. This