Ronth, usually pronounced Rondhu, means patrolling in police parlance in Malayalam and Tamil. Accordingly, this film is about a pair of police officers—one a seasoned, dyed-in-the-wool cop and the other a Greenhorn —who are on night patrol duty. The film, set in a small town in Kerala, is about what happens during that one night... Continue Reading →
Ouseppinte Osiyathu (Malayalam) – My Flash Review!
The title of this Malayalam film seems complicated, but in English, it translates to Ouseppu’s Will. For convenience, let me call it O2. O2 is another simple Malayalam film sans any major stars, made at a fairly low budget. At a runtime of just under 2 hours, it solely relies on the plot points to... Continue Reading →
Golam (Malayalam) – My Flash Review!
“In crime investigation, the truth often resembles a SPHERE. There are no sharp corners to hide behind”. This quote attributed to the director Samjad appears right at the beginning of the film and I spent the next few minutes trying to decipher the meaning of this quote, in vain. Malayalam films tend to have such... Continue Reading →
Pada – My Flash Review!
Close on the heels of The Kashmir Files, comes Pada a Malayalam film that is also based on a real life story that happened in Palakkad way back in 1996. Pada meaning “Army” is about how a small group of people called the “Ayyankali Pada” take the law into their hands to get justice for... Continue Reading →
Joji – My Flash Review!
In a spectacular scene, the daughter in law of the house tells her brother in law to wear a mask and come to the hall where the body of his father is kept while friends and relatives keep thronging to pay their last respects. Yes, even in the film, it is Covid time – you... Continue Reading →