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Getting ready for opera!
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Let’s go get some Georgian food!
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Dress to match the place!
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Right out of a painting & a wonderful click!
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Ooh the swag though!
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Cyan blue at Catherine’s palace!
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The lit pink-yellow combo!
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Polka dots & Picnics!
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The cutsie accessories!
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Picture courtesy: https://www.instagram.com/rimakallingal/
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They have been married for almost 10 years and we are very familiar with both of them. Prithviraj was always a highlight in the industry ever since he came into the field. Supriya is now wielding the cap of producer for Prithviraj Production and they have a cute lil daughter Alankrita.
Nazriya & Fahadh
It was a big surprise for the industry when they announced their marriage a few years back. They have been together since 2014. She has stepped into production with her own banner. They were last seen together in the movie Trance.
Rima Kallingal & Aashiq Abu
They were gossips going rounds ever since these two started dating and even when they were so open about it. They are married since 2013 and has done many works together. Now the co-produce movies together.
Poornima & Indrajith
These two are the most fun loving couples of Mollywood. Now and then they share glimpses from their lives through social media and they are blessed with two beautiful, talented daughters, Prarthana & Nakshatra.
Saritha & Jayasurya
Both the names are very popular in the industry, one for style and other for acting. She has done costume design for his movies and own her own designer studio. They have two kids, Adwaith & Veda.
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Mayaanadhi which was released during Christmas time last year, outperformed the expectations, won the hearts of the audiences everywhere, and rose to success. The movie is now all geared up to be remade in Hindi.
The big announcement was made during the audio launch of Mohanlal’s upcoming movie Neerali. The event was attended by actor Tovino Thomas, Aashiq Abu and many more famous faces from Mollywood. The Bollywood remake of Mayaanadhi will be bankrolled by actor-director-producer Sachin Pilgaonkar along with Santosh Kuruvilla and Aashiq Abu. The rest of the crew is yet to be finalised.
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Mayanaadhi, a movie which was perceived to be yet “another love story” upon its initial look and trailer, went much beyond the stereotypical romantic film. The film chose a unique story telling technique, alternating between genres (romance and thriller) and timelines (past, present and future), which in turn produced a mystical effect to the whole movie as suggested in the title. The movie with the protagonist on the run intensified love, passion and everything in between.
Mayaanadhi is a fine example of the brilliant craftsmanship by Aashiq Abu. His prudent direction and strong performances by the lead actors are the two main reasons, why the characters Maathan and Appu and the story itself stayed with the audiences for longer time.
The Hindi remake of the movie will be directed by Joe Rajan of the Love You Soniyo fame. And now we will have to wait and see whether the director and the remake will be able to recreate the same magic on the screen once again.
While the lead actors is yet to be finalized, all we can do is keep guessing who will be playing the lead characters of Maathan and Appu.
Who do you think is most suited from Bollywood to play the lead in the movie?
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Mohanlal and Nadia Moidu pairing on screen after three decades has already got the fans excited for the release of Ajoy Varma’s debut Malayalam film Neerali. But this is not the only specialty of the film. The movie’s music has been handled by the man with swift fingers on keys, Stephan Devassy. The film also includes a duet sung by the legendary actor himself with the young nightingale of India Shreya Ghoshal. The audio launch of the film was held on Monday at Crowne Plaza, Kochi.
Neerali is a dramatic comedy thriller produced by Santosh T Kurivila under the banner of Moonshot Entertainments. The film also happens to be the 333rd film of the legendary actor Mohanlal. The cast of the film also includes Parvathy Nair, Megha Mathew, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Dileesh Pothen and many other talented artistes. Mohanlal plays the character Sunny George in the film which is scheduled to hit the silver screen on July 14, 2018.
The audio launch function of Neerali commenced by the screening of the film teaser. The evening was graced with the presence of various celebrities in the industry. Special invitees of the evening were renowned Marathi actor and filmmaker Sachin Pilgaonkar and famous Bollywood film critic Taran Adarsh.
The film has a total of four songs composed by Stephan. “Some parts of a song in the film have been recorded at Poland,” said Stephan. Representatives of the cast and crew of Neerali and Mayanadhi together launched the audio of Neerali.
Mohanlal won the audiences’ hearts with a live performance of the song Azhake Azhake from Neerali along with Stephan on the piano. MG Sreekumar and Vijay Yesudas also performed at the event. Sachin, Nadia, Parvathy, and Suraj addressed the gathering. Famous mentalist Nipin Niravath amused the gathering with his skills and tricks and the humorous collaboration with Suraj added colour to his act.
The celebration of the successful 125 days screening of Aashiq Abu’s film Mayanadhi was marked with cake cutting. Aashiq, Tovino Thomas, Soubin Shahir along with various other crew members of Mayanadhi cut the cake with Mohanlal to celebrate the achievement. Mohanlal spoke highly of Tovino‘s performance in Mayanadhi. It was also announced that Mayanadhi is soon going to be remade in Hindi.
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]]>Three things you love about Aashiq as a human being….
I love the fact that Aashiq is a man with a lot of conviction; the second thing I love about him is his family. His mother is the boldest woman I have come across, and his sisters are simply adorable. And Ashiq’s ability to love and respect me is an extension of his family values. The way he understands me, the freedom he gives me to explore myself, it comes from his family.
The one quality that you dislike in Ashiq…
I don’t really hate anything about him; actually we both are a world of extremes and we do have our own silly arguments at times but that’s pretty much about it.
What is it on that Rima and Aashiq disagree most of the time?
Like I told you before, both of us are entirely different from each other, but our values and principles in life are similar. We differ in tastes, but on the bigger issues of life as such we agree most of the times.
Your next holiday together would be to…
We both have been longing to visit Pushkar mela in Rajasthan for a long time but because of our professional commitments we were postponing our holiday, but this time we are going to make it.
Is he an insecure lover?
No…Aashiq is a super confident human being, he is very confident and comfortable about himself, so there is no question of he being insecure.
If not for his movie, does he pay you surprise visits during filming?
No, he doesn’t come to my movie sets because it belongs to some other director or production house and that can be a distraction for them. But I do visit him on his sets because he is the one who calls the shots there.
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The mastermind behind this year’s biggest entertainer that comprised of a loudmouth, a missing-in-action beauty queen and two newbie’s, packaged as a food based movie, is an easy talker. Well, as long as you have the right questions. The cynics and onlookers alike watched open-mouthed, a locomotive called Salt N’ Pepper appeared from nowhere and sped its course through a film landscape that was reeking with flops. This movie too is the product of the new breed of movie professionals who are bring about the much needed freshness to Malayalam movies.
During the 70’s Malayalam movie industry saw the advent of new wave cinema. Possibly inspired by this, a group of youngsters, customers of the now definitional Indian Coffee House near the University College in Trivandrum, later formed a cinema fraternity that contributed meaningful screenplays, powerful characters and innovative crafts to the Malayalee audience. Late 80’s and early 90’s saw the growth of superstars. Malayalam movies went into a limbo. This state of deterioration is offered some resistance by youngsters Vyshak , Amal Neerad, Anwar Rasheed, Sameer Thahir and Lijo Jose Pellissery to name a few, who are experimenting with thematic, narratives and casting. One of the major changes that have taken place is the collective effort and the times spend for pre-production work. Neither Auteur Theory (that director is the sole creator of the movie) nor the Schreiber Theory (that the scriptwriter is the creator) is any longer in practise. The Schreiber theory had relevance in Malayalam, only due to prominent directors writing their own scripts. With a growing audience who are exposed to all kinds of cinema, unoriginal works are being criticised from the time the movie is announced. New themes, new genres and new cinematic perspectives are needed to capture the evolving global Malayalee’s imagination.
It’s a hot and sultry day in Kochi; the midday day sun continues its course to the middle of the sky. At the movie workshop for 22 Female Kottayam, a suspense thriller in a private hideaway 20 km from Kochi, Aashiq Abu seems like a man in search for something. A stocky build, in t-shirt and shorts, he is totally at home walking around in rubber slippers. “Cigarettes” came a cry on seeing a pack, he picks one and lights up, sitting in front of the laptop playing songs from the Folk rock group Avial’s collection. Rest of the cast and crew is wandering about, almost sleep walking. Complains of hunger fills the air and the housekeepers scurry around to prepare lunch.
Now food is something really popular here, well for a team that did a love story around food, the conversation really got started. Aashiq was joined by Syam Pushkaran and Dileesh Nair the writers, Abhilash Kumar, Madhu Narayan, Pradeep Sukumaran- associate directors and Dileesh Pothan who is also an associate but had an acting role in Salt N’ Pepper.
Aashiq: “All of us love food, the same is true about an average Malayalee, yet we never had a food based movie. The idea for food came up much later in the pre-production time”
Syam: “The story thread was about two people in their forties meeting each other and falling in love, food became an angle because we thought that would be the best unifier for their unusual relationship”
Dileesh: “The moment the age factor came in, we knew it couldn’t be a normal love story. We wanted to keep it realistic as possible, like normal people they too had their own emotional baggage.”
Aashiq: “when they told me the story, I knew we had to go with unusual casting. Now everyone is talking about Babu Raj’s casting. That happened because we didn’t want to go with normal comedians. All of us sat around talking and Babu Raj’s name came up, and somehow all of us were sure that it would work out.”
Madhu: “ Ya ya, we all liked the idea, even with the casting of Lal and Shweta (Menon), it was clear that someone who acted their age was needed and of course a good voice that would sound good over telephone was needed.”
Abhilash: “The Upadeshi, K.T. Mirash character was developed after seeing a friend walk around in pyjamas …. (breaks out in laughter) everybody has come across characters like that, he is everything Manu (Aasif Ali) is not and vice versa, they somehow balance each other.”
By now lunch is served, and everybody rambles over to the table and starts piling on food. Dileesh Pothan is the obvious butt of the joke for the grit of his paunch. Finally everybody settles down to eat.
Pradeep : The food song for title was planned over 5 days. We called up people in all the districts in Kerala, they came up with suggestions and we travelled 2 days North of Kerala , two days South and of course a day in Kochi.
Aashiq: Even though all of us are very familiar with Kochi, we didn’t want to set the story in Kochi.
Syam : (Interrupting) For an Archaeologist, Trivandrum is a much better and in any case there is too much of Kochi in Malayalam movies these days…
Pradeep: … there are voice labs and better streets. (Smiling) we really liked the house in Trivandrum. Every article in the scenes and the idea to have the Mooppan through was pre planned, but then the story of the rainbow cake was really researched.
A car pulls up at the other gate and three men walk through, a loud cheer greets them. Shyju Khalid the cinematographer who did both Traffic and Salt N’ Pepper, Sajan V the editor and Dan Jose the Sound guy walks in and starts chiding Aashiq about his new projects.
Shyju : Did this guy tell you about the food song? Oh that was a big deal for me. 5 days up and down and I didn’t want to shoot food like a product rather something all of us are very familiar with. Just like a normal person’s perspective when entering an eating place, oh that was fun!
Sajan : Forget the food, seeing the rushes of Avial promo song literally stunned me. Until then I thought keeping the climax in balance would be the toughest part. Hardly 30 percent of the whole footage was used for the film. The same was the case with the food song; we had a lot of footage which we didn’t use, Aashiq had a plan to bring out an album based on the all the unused footage. Oh the intertextual stuff in both the movies was fun, Mamooka playing himself from Azhakiya Ravanan in Daddy Cool and Shweta in Salt N’ Pepper dubbing for Richa Pallod in Daddy Cool. There is even a director in the studio like Aashiq.
Aashiq : Well there was lots of criticism for using a non Malayalee actress as the lead for the role in Daddy Cool. So we wanted to show what the situation really is. Dubbing is always a problem. Shweta was the only Malayalam speaking actor who fitted the role and she did a wonderful job.
Initially we were not sure how people would take this after the Rathinirvedam role; it’s totally Shweta’s credit that people accepted the role.
When asked about the gay undertones in Lal’s and Babu Raj’s relationship
Syam (with a grin): That was the chemistry between the two; the idea was to have a cook who somehow compensates for the woman of the house….
Dileesh: There are no comic scenes written only situational comedies, when we were doing character sketches, it was definite that a brahmachari (A hanuman devotee) would be the right person for the role. Their relationship is similar to that of any two individuals who are sharing living spaces together for a long while.
Dan : The ‘sounds’ for the scene in which the prospective bride looks from the balcony, when the cook leaving the house with her potential suitor, was given a tragic-comic turn as demanded by the situation.
The energy levels are certainly rising within the group; a few have broken away and are jamming around with a guitar and make-shift drum (former lunch plates). A few others are preparing to jump into the pool. Their day just seems to be starting, night long discussions, arguments, fights and what not! The collective enthusiasm is clearly evident within the group, yet there is no distinction between work and play mood, even during the day long interactions it’s clear that bouncing ideas to and fro keep them on their toes. Who knows somewhere down the line, new genres hitherto unexplored in Malayalam cinema, might emanate from the new breed. Viewer expectations are high, so are the chances of rejection. There is still no concrete sign to call the new age directors, producers and professionals a new movement or wave, but then Malayalees all over the world are waiting for a new kind of movie sensibility.
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