Nadodiagl

This movie is quiet an impressive one. The team which made 'Subramaniapuram' has done it again, but there exactly is the problem also. We feel shades of 'Subramaniapuram' through out this movie. The violence, the rustic mood, revenge, betrayal everything is repeated. But still this one is a good movie. It disturbs you to the core.

The film is about group of friends; Karuna (Sasi Kumar), Chandran (Vijay Vasanth) and Pandian (Bharani) who are leading happy lives in their hometown. Happy family and good friendliness amongst them is almost like a feel of paradise coming down on earth. Perhaps, a fateful encounter comes through Karuna’s closer friend Saravanan who attempts for suicide due to love failure. The girl he loves is the daughter of a bigshot in Namakkal and Saravanan is the son of a powerful Ex-MP. With all their earnest efforts, they travel to Namakkal and get the young lad and missy united. The friends are completely deteriorated like almost dead with their futuristic plans gone shattered.

Anyhow, they’re so elated that their friends are leading a happy life. But sooner, they’re blown out of waters on getting to know that the couple is gonna get divorced.

Love Aaj Kal

After the success of 'Jab We Met', there was high expectation about this movie of Imtiaz Ali. Its about love in the new generation vs old generation.
This was a very boring movie for me. Many friends of mine told me that this movie was a good movie, but while watching this movie I felt like kicking all those who told that this movie was good. Bull Shittt...
Jai and Meera is a modern-day couple in London. They are very happy together but do not believe in tying each other down. So when life pulls them in different directions, they decide to go with the flow. “These Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet type janam janam ka saath type couples exist only in story books”, Jai says. In the real life, we have to be practical. Love Kal Delhi, Calcutta - 1965. Veer Singh is struck by the thunderbolt when he sees Harleen for the first time. Soon after, he stands under a tree and swears that “is janam mein aur har janam mein… yehi meri votti banegi – Harleen Kaur.” He travels a thousand kilometers by train to stand under her balcony only to have a glimpse of her face. And yet not speak a word with her. Love Aaj Kal Veer does not understand how Jai can treat matters of the heart without passion, like a financial transaction. Jai does not understand how Veer Singh could have been so naïve and silly about Harleen in the days of his youth. But as both stories unfold, we realize that the process of relationship might be different in different eras, but the experience of being in love remains the same. So there is the frolic and despair of modern living. The liberation and confusion. And there is the past – the times of innocence and compulsion. And there is distance, and the fondness that increases with distance. Gaps widen between two people, but bridges keep growing too.

Pattanathil Bhootham

If there is any single reason for the crisis in malayalam film industry, then this is it. Horrible movie....dont watch this..I dont understand what makes mammooty select movies like this.
And jhonny antony proves once again that he is the undoubted 'King of Koora Movies" and he is giving tough competition to the likes of Vinayan and V M Vinu. Now even god cannot save malayalam film industry.
Mammooty is trying to do what Innocent has done in "Saakshal Sreeman Chathunni", but innocent was better

Kambakht Ishq

On of the worst movies I have watched in recent times. Luckily I didn't go to any theater to watch this movie.

Heard that it is a remake of the Tamil movie Pammal K Sambandham.

Viraj (Akshay Kumar), a stuntman in Hollywood, is a player and Simrita (Kareena Kapoor), a model cum surgeon, is a feminist and they both meet at Lucky's (Viraj's brother played by Aftab) and Kamini's (Simrita's best friend played by Amrita) wedding and can't stand each other. Simrita forgets a watch in Viraj's intestines while performing an operation and tries to seduce him so that she can retreive the watch. The rest of the movie is about the battle between the sexes and how they fall in love.

The movie was directed by Sabir Khan.

Many hollywood actors including silvester stallone has made special appearance in this movie

Pakal Nakshatranagal

I wanted to watch this movie for quiet some time. But before i decided to watch this movie, it was out of the theatres. I was waiting for the Moser Baer DVD release. I heard tat this movie revolves around a group of intellectuals who meet at a joint called Daffodills where they discussed creative things. I related this to our not so intellectual group which used to meet at "Chayakkada".

While watching Pakal Nakshatrangal, you feel that the team behind it is interested in just showing off their intelligence without bothering to make an "intelligent" film. They dabble in esoteric themes like mysticism, sexual freedom, death, the after-life and such things, as an act of show off. It is written by Anup Menon and Rajeev Nath is credited with the concept (whatever that means) and direction.

The story begins with a news item of the demolition of the Daffodils, an erstwhile cultural hub where creative people met and discussed their work. The most prominent among them was filmmaker Siddharthan (Mohanlal), fondly called Sidhan, which can loosely be explained as a genius. He used to develop his scripts there and would meet his Thadi-Jubba-Sanji kind of friends here for drinks and other pleasures. Sidhan had mysteriously died by falling from the terrace of the building. It was not proved whether it was an accident, suicide or a murder.

So, his foster son Adi (Anup Kumar), himself a renowned writer, whose previous book Labyrinths of Sanity (for pun's sake, it should have been Labyrinths of Insanity!) was short listed for Man Booker Prize, embarks on a mission to write a biographical novel. In fact it is about Siddharathan's relationship with various women as Siddharathan is a womaniser. Womanising is presented as a "mystical quality in a creative genius about his father in addition to solving the mystery behind his death.

He completes the book in two weeks flat and requests his wife (played by Lakshami Gopalaswamy) to appraise it as a reader and a critic. The narrative unfolds in anecdotal flashbacks as the writer and his wife discuss the book. The string of people he meets, his father's friends, his colleagues, the suspects and even the police officer who had investigated the case.

The interaction between the writer and his wife becomes interesting sometimes. Like when she asks him about the character who could speak with dead souls (played by Suresh Gopi [Images]) who had acquainted his father, and why he was dropped midway after giving him a good build-up. In a way this device helps the writer to give excuses for the loopholes in the story).

For Mohanlal, the role of Siddharathan is a cakewalk; we have seen him in such roles many a time. But, still his spontaneity and sparkle leaves us charmed.

Suresh Gopi oscillates between being funny and being serious as the necromancer. What becomes unintentionally funny is the fact that he is depicted as a person having speech impairment, who has to put a gadget on his larynx to get the words out. The gadget suspiciously looks like an electronic razor!

Anup Menon tries hard to be convincing as an intense writer who wishes to dig into his father's relationship with various women. But, somehow he comes across as pretentious.

Pakal Nakshatrangal no doubt tries to recreate the intellectual vigour Malayalam cinema had in the eighties but falls terribly short.

Ivar Vivahitharayal

I was not very keen about watching this movie when it was released. The name of the movie, the star cast, the director....nothing was quiet impressive.
But later on many people told me that it was not a bad movie. So I decided to give it a try. This was the first movie that I watched with my whole family.... My parents, wife, sister and her hubby..
It was not a bad movie for the family audience....I was not much impressive though...I felt it like a serial (may be because it was directed by a serial director)...Sooraj Venjaarumoodu was impressive in many scenes..

Vivek (Jayasurya) does his MBA degree from Pondicherry University. Even while as a student, the main ambition of Vivek to get married as soon as he is back home after his studies. Vivek has a circle of very close friends of four, with whom he discusses everything. Navya Nair appears in a cameo role in the film as his dream wife. Prominent among these friends is Teresa (Samvrutha Sunil). Teresa and other friends advises Vivek not to get married so early and to wait till he finds a job, but Vivek had already made up his mind.

Vivek's parents, Adv. Ananthan Menon (Siddique) and Adv. Nandini Rekha lives separated at adjacent flats in the same apartment. Vivek returns home after studies. Vivek stays on each of his parents private apartments on alternate days. Vivek loves his parents so much and wishes to rejoin them some how. The spoiled brat child, Vivek is called as Anathutten by his father Ananthan and Nanthutten by his mother Nandini.

Suraaj Venjarammoodu plays the role of Adv. Mannanthala Susheel Kumar , an assistent advocate to Adv. Ananthan Menon.

A phone-in programme encounter with Kavya aka Tinku (Bhama) and Vivek, a radio jockey, results in loss of Kavya's job. Some strange circumstances lead to the marriage of Vivek and Kavya, without knowing each other that they are the same people who clashed on the FM radio channel. Vivek expects Kavya to be an orthodox and simple wife of his dreams and Kavya turns out to be otherwise. Vivek discovers on the first night after marriage, that he is the same person that caused Kavya lose her job at the FM station. Vivek decides to reveal the truth to Kavya one day but he couldn't do it. Kavya gets rejected at other FM channels due her notorious happening at her previous FM station.

Vivek finds that he did not clear his MBA degree exam and subsequent quarrel with his father, leads to his way out from his father's house. Vivek is now out of his own house without a job or money to survive. Teresa helps Vivek and Kavya to get a rented house next to Teresa's house. Vivek finds difficult to do his responsibilities as an husband but he hates to accept that.

Kavya doubts Teresa's over friendly attachment towards Vivek which results in quarrels among them. She is also worried of Vivek's lack of responsibilites and sufficent care for her and her feelings. Kavya also discovers from Teresa that it was the because of Vivek, she had lost her earlier job. Kavya decides to leave for her own home, but promises to stay with him and Vivek's parents who are reunited now.

After a month, Vivek and Kavya files a joint petition at the court for their divorce. Vivek plans to leave for Dubai, but Vivek and Kavya discovers their emotions towards each other at the end of the film and all is well now.