Malarvaadi Arts Club Preview [2010]

Vineeth Sreenivasan has a very good track record in Mollywood, as a successful play back singer, album producer and a hero in a couple of well made films like ‘Cycle’ and ‘Makante Achan’. And now, the talented youngster is all set to prove himself as a movie director, calling shots for his debut film made in the title 'Malarvadi Arts Club'.

Following the trends of recent movies in other languages of the south and Bollywood with fresh faces and rustic backdrops, ‘Malarvady Arts Club’ also narrates the spirit of fun filled youthfulness.

The story of ‘Malarvadi Arts Club’ is mainly about the ties and adventures of five friends in a village called Manassery in North Malabar. As they have reached an important point of their lives, having completed their studies and are in the lookout for a job, they have no other place for a hangout than their old children’s club. The Club is at the edge of destruction with new generation children showing no interest in group activities, other than those related to their studies. The five some decides to somehow run the Club and organize better activities with the help of the local men. ‘Malarvadi Arts Club’ follows the hilarious attempts of the quintet, to establish themselves and their club in their silent hamlet.

“Malarvadi Arts Club’ will present five well groomed newcomers, with the characters of the movie named after them. The five men in the film are good at heart, but with different temperaments”, says the young director, who presents his five heroes. Prakashan, who is having the thickest beard in the group, is the most impulsive one while Praveen, the guitarist is the most reserved one in the group. Santhosh, the soft spoken lad is the most financially sound guy among the quintet. Purushu is the romantic hero whose discourses swing between foolishness to seriousness. And then they have a Kuttu, a tenth standard drop out, with no real talents, but the most essential team member. Janapriya Nayakan Dileep is expected to come up in a cameo in the flick.

The cast list of the movie also includes Nedumudi Venu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suraj Venjaramood, Salim Kumar, Kottayam Nazeer and two fresh faces as heroines, Revathy and Geethu.

While P Sukumar is in charge of the cinematography, the director himself pens the lyrics for the songs set to music by Shaan Rehman. Produced by Dileep in the banner of Grand Productions ‘Malarvadi Arts Club' will hit theatres in July.

Mummy And Me Preview [2010]

After a small gap from her last movie 'Bharya Swantham Suhurthu', versatile actor Urvashi is back with the new movie 'Mummy And Me' directed by Jithu Joseph after her well applauded debut in 'Detective'.

The movie is also the second one from Archana Kavi, who made a famous debut last year with M T Lal Jose team's 'Neelathamara'. While Archana appears as the daughter in the movie, Urvashi is her mother. And as you surmise, the movie is all about this nuclear family consisting of a mummy and daughter and their dad, who loves each other a little bit more and are more engaged in each other's activities.

Archana Kavi is Jewel in the movie, the only daughter of Joseph (Mukesh) and Clara (Urvashi), who according to everyone in their neighborhood, is leading an ideal life. Jewel is bubbly new age girl with open, positive relations and friends. But Clara is a conventional mother who is always in the lookout to find fault with her daughter and to correct her in every petty issue. And this leads to complaints and worries, back to back which is killing the peace of the small, ideal family.

Meanwhile, Jewel falls in love with Rahul (Kunchacko Boban) her senior in the college and longtime friend. Rahul is also a single child much adored by his parents Thomachan (Lalu Alex) and Mary (Shari). This new relations is a new start for fights in Jewel's home between her and her mother. Attempting a story about generation gap, ‘Mummy And Me’, scripted by Jithu Joseph takes a careful look into the new age homes with single children, where intense caring and possessiveness leads to least expressions of love. Anoop Menon, Sudheesh, Janardhanan, Jeevan and Arun also appear in key roles of' Mummy and Me' while Suresh Gopi is also expected to appear in a surprising cameo in the movie.

'Mummy And Me' introduces a new music director Sejo John and a lyricist Shelton Pinero to Mollywood. While Vipin Mohan cranks the camera, V Saajan does the editing. S B Satheesh handles the costume department of the youth flick which offers a lot of chances to introduce trendy costumes, while Sabu ram is in charge of Art.

The movie expected to be in theatres this May, is being produced by Joy Thomas Sakthikulangara under the banner of Jithin Arts, who had earlier made the super hit movie 'Hello'. ‘Mummy and Me’ is distributed by Max Lab.

Oru Naal Varum Preview [2010]

After five years Superstar Mohanlal and Sreenivasan are coming together for a movie in 'Oru Naal Varaum'. The hit pair who had created some of the best run hits in Mollywood was last seen together in ‘Udhayanaanu Thaaram' which was also a acclaimed hit.

Directed by T K Rajeev Kumar, the movie's highlights include its Bollywood heroine Sameera Reddy, who is debuting into Mollywood.

’Oru Naal Varum' is another satirical humorous story by Sreenivasan, telling the fate of a citizen trying hard to build a house of his own amidst the harsh regulations of Town planning Office. The movie has Mohanlal as Kulappully Sukumaran, who has come to the capital city to support his daughter's studies. He and his daughter are staying in a rented flat in the city premises. Sukumaran had been staying away from his wife Meera, who is an I T Professional, working in another city.

After being with the limited facilities of a rented flat, Sukumaran finally decides to build one house of his own. But within very few days he realizes that building a house in a big city like Thiruvanathapuram is not as easy as he thought it to be. The first person who remains as a big block before Sukumaran is the town planning Officer played by Sreenivasan.

Here starts the plight of an ordinary citizen who is forced to run after files paying bribes and offering presents to every officers on the way, to help him to realize his dream. Deeply rooted in the current day social circumstances of Kerala, 'Oru Naal Varum' will be another big movie that will be remembered for long just like Sreenivasan's previous satires like Sandhesham and Gandhi Nagar Second Street.

It is after 15 years that T K Rajeev Kumar has been able to get Mohanlal for his movie, the last being 'Pavithram'. The movie which will stick to light narratives without any complications, will also feature Nedumudi Venu, Siddique, Lalu Alex, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Kunjan, Kottayam Nazir, Dinesh Panikkar, Devayani, Nazriya and Baby Esther in other key roles.

Playback singer M G Sreekumar has composed the music of the film, while Murukan Kattakkada has written the lyrics. Manoj Pillai is in charge of the camera work, while National Award winning editor B Ajith Kumar would handle the editing. Seral Kuruvilla does the artwork while Kumar Edappal is in charge of costumes.

'Oru Naal Varum' is produced by Maniyan Pillai Raju under his won banner. The movie which was completed in a single schedule at the capital city, will be brought to theaters by Damor films by the first week of May.

Kadha Thudarunnu Preview [2010]

The third big brand in Mollywood after the superstars, Sathyan Anthikkad had been successful enough to preserve his pool of viewers for the last twenty years, with his style of soft, emotional but lively story telling. The director who specializes in telling the satirical narratives about middle class woes and worries is back with another flick titled as 'Katha Thudarum'.

In fact, this is the fiftieth movie from the director, whose last eight movies were all big hits. Expected to be in theatres shortly, the director is for the first time casting Mamta Mohandas as his heroine and young stars like Asif Ali and Sreejith Ravi.

This time, the favourite director of family audiences is trying to woo his viewers telling the story of Vidya Lakshmi (played by Mamta Mohandas) a girl who was born in an affluent family but is left along in the street with her daughter as she had decided to start a new life with her lover Shanavas, (Asif Ali) belonging to another caste.

Both of them decided to get married, after facing strong challenges from their respective families. But after the birth of their child Laya, Shanavas goes missing in mysterious circumstances and is rumored to be no more.

Preman (Jayaram) is an auto driver who lives a happy hurried life in the city premises, in their colony amidst his friends and ever interacting society. Vidya Lakshmi and her four year old daughter Laya (baby Anigha), once happens to enter the auto run by Preman. She was then into certain difficult situation, left with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Initially Preman finds this young mother and daughter as a big burden, but gradually he decides to lead them into a different life in the safety and lovability of his own colony.

Very soon Viday Lakshmi realizes that there is much more in life than money and hi-fi living.

'Katha Thudarum' thus narrates another socially relevant message- oriented plot and shows how a small, lower stratum of society helps and rescues an isolated mother and her child from imminent dangers and difficulties of their life. The movie has an impressive star cast including Sathyan regulars like K P A C Lalitha, Innocent, Mumukkoya and Lakshmi Priya.

The movie as usual with every recent Sathyan flicks features the lyrics by Sarathchandra Verma which have been set to tune by music maestro Illayaraja. While Venu is in charge of the camera department, K Rajagopal does the editing.

Produced by Thankachan Emmanuel under the banner of Trueline Cinema, 'Katha Thudarum' would grace the theatres in another week.

Alexander The Great Preview [2010]

Superstar Mohanlal's new movie to get to theaters is ''Alexander, the great'', which is in its final touches to be on theaters. This flick is directed by Murali Nagavally, a very senior associate to Priyadarshan whose debut movie in Mollywood was 'Wanted', which featured Mohanlal in a guest role. Produced by V B K Menon under the banner of Anugraha Cine Arts, Alexander the great, was extensively shot in Dubai and Mumbai.

Mohanlal plays the title character of the movie, peculiarly named as Alexander Varma. A smart and witty genius, who has got some mysterious secrets behind him, he is a man of multitasking and vision.

Alexander's entry into the plot happens as Prathamavarma, the owner of wealthy Dubai-based business group, Varma Corporation, dies unexpectedly. Following his cremation, many relatives and people in his circuit vie to take control of the business group. To end the ongoing tussle for power, the last thing that can give a clear picture was Varma's 'Will' that was to be read in a couple of days. Even to the surprise of Varma's son Manu, it happens that Varma has written in his will to hand over his every possession to one Alexander Varma, who was residing in Mumbai.

No one in the family or friends of Varma had slightest knowledge about such a person. But as it turns out in the deed, the family goes in search of 'Alexander Varma' and brings him to Dubai to steer the empire without causalities. The movie, which in plot gives an air of a different venture from the regular potboilers, will have Hindi actress Meenakshi Dixit as the heroine. Bala, Siddique, Jagadheesh, Sai Kumar and Sudha Chandran are also in the cast.

‘Alexander The Great’ is scripted by journalist C Balachandran. While D Kannan is in charge of cinematography, M G Sreekumar and Gireesh Puthencherry handle the music section.

'Alexander The Great ', with plenty of comic, thrilling sequences and a big twist in the climax, will get into theaters this season.

T.D. Dasan Std VI B Preview [2010]

The recent years have witnessed many debutants graduating to call the shots for films, that too in classy ways. In a similar attempt to go for a worthy film, debutant Mohan Ragahavan is getting ready with his first movie named as ‘T D Dasan, Standard VI B’. Curiously titled so, the movie tells the story of a school boy in the anxious search of his father

The movie has Alexander as Dasan, a sixth standard student who is reared by his mother Chandrika, played by Shwetha Menon. Long back, her husband and Dasan's father Diwakaran had deserted them, leaving them at a silent village in Palakkad. Ever since his eloping from the area, Chandrika has got no details about her husband.

But Dasan who is now an eleven year old cannot stop dreaming about his father. And on an eventful day, he happens to find out an old address of Divakaran from one of Chandrika's cloth boxes. Dasan starts writing to his father, without letting his mother know about his intentions. And to his surprise, he also starts getting letters in reply, supposedly from Divakaran. Does his letter reach Diwakaran? Who is in the other side who is replying as Dasan? All this forms the thread of ‘T D Dasan, Standard VI B’, which promises to be a different flick with a different premise.

Biju Menon, Jagadheesh, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suresh Krishna, Mala Aravindan, Valsala Menon, Sreehari, Sruthi Menon, Dennis Parakkadan, Aloysius and Tina Rose are also the part of this poignant movie, which is scripted by the director himself. 'T D Dasan Standard VI B' is expected to grace the theatres this Vishu.

Pokkiriraja Preview [2010]

The new movie on sets ‘Pokkiri Raja’ had been hailed as a trendsetter, even from the days of its announcement. Apart from bringing in a casting coup by uniting Megastar Mammootty and youth icon Prithviraj for the first time in full length roles, this movie by debutant director Vysakh has also taken pains to present Super actress Shriya Saran to Mollywood.

The walrus moustache style that has been for the first time presented by a hero in Malayalam cinema, has already been taken up by the campus youngsters as the latest style element. Scripted by hit writers Sibi K Thomas-Udhay Krishna, this movie is a fast paced thriller with plenty of hilarious sequences.

The movie has Mammootty as Raja and Prithvi as Soorya, both sons of popular Gandhian and idealistic teacher Madhavan Mash. The eldest son Raja was thrown out of the house by Madhavan Mash, as he was reluctant to stick to his father’s Gandhian ways. He ran away from home to Madurai after a scuffle and becomes the leader of a gang of ruffians. Raja, who now lives in Madurai, talks with a peculiar accent and is a huge fan of Rajinikanth.

Madhavan Mash has much hopes on his younger son Soorya, who was reared with care as to become a model for the youth of the town. But circumstances forced Soorya to just follow his elder brother’s path and to take arms and to become another notable name, booked by the police. Shriya plays Aswathy, the daughter of the city police commissioner who falls in love with Soorya.

Madhavan Mash is finally pushed into a position where he has to go in the lookout for his elder son to save his younger one’s life.

The heroics of two brothers is what debut director Vysakh is filling up as the right ingredients for a commercial potboiler. The movie will feature eighty prominent artist of south cinema including Vijayaraghavan, Siddhique, Nedumudi Venu, Santhosh Jogy, Baiju Ezhupunna and Karate Raj.

The music section of the movie is handled by Kaithapram and Jassie Gift. The songs which are already out, top the charts. Shaji handles the camera while Mahesh Narayanan does the editing.

The debutant director Vysakh had been an associate to Johny Antony and Joshy before attempting this big affair. The movie planned like Tamil flicks had been shot at Ernakulam and Pollachi.

Produced by Tomichan Mulakupadam in the banner of Mulakupadam films, ‘Pokkiri Raja’ will make a wide release on the 29th of this month, as a big mid summer release.