OpinionThe Shobana-Mohanlal starrer 'Abhayam Thedi' can be called a companion piece to director IV Sasi’s 'Anubandham' and 'Aalkkoottathil Thaniye', in how it depicts family struggles and individual crisis.Mohanlal and Shobana in Abhayam ThediWriter Mt Vasudevan Nair’s worldbuilding in director IV Sasi’s 1986 Malayalam film Abhayam Thedi (seeking refuge) is quite intricate. The stock, dysfunctional, Nair tharavadu (ancestral mansion) has the ‘aesthetics’ of a dominant caste Hindu household — a massive double-storeyed house that still carries vestiges of its occupants' bruised past and fraught present, enclosed by front yards, back yards, ancient trees, ponds, and acres of seclusion. It is to this space that Miranda (Shobana), the granddaughter of the patriarch’s deceased prodigal son returns, hoping to find refuge and solace. Abhayam Thedi can be called a companion piece to Sasi’s Anubandham (1985) and Aalkkoottathil Thaniye (1984) — the milieu, the familial conflicts, and individuals going through an existential crisis.
- 7/29/2023
- by LakshmiP
- The News Minute
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 13 (Ians) M.M. Keeravani today is being hailed as one of the greatest music composers of Tollywood, but he earned his early spurs in K. Balachander’s 1991 Tamil movie, ‘Azhagan’ (Handsome), starring Mammootty and Bhanupriya. In the credit lines, he was known as Maragathamani.
In the same year, Keeravani, using the same identity, composed the music for celebrated filmmaker I.V. Sasi’s hit movie ‘Neelagiri’, also starring Mammooty. And in the year that followed, he gave the music for ‘Soorya Manasam’, the Sowcar Janaki-Mammootty film where the latter plays a mentally challenged man.
In the meantime, he continued with Telugu and Tamil films, venturing onto Kannada, where he did not change his name, as he did yet again, this time to M.M. Kreem, when he scored the music for ‘Criminal’, Mahesh Bhatt’s 1995 Telugu-Hindi bilingual thriller based on ‘The Fugitive’ and starring Nagarjuna, Ramya Krishna and Manisha Koirala.
In the same year, Keeravani, using the same identity, composed the music for celebrated filmmaker I.V. Sasi’s hit movie ‘Neelagiri’, also starring Mammooty. And in the year that followed, he gave the music for ‘Soorya Manasam’, the Sowcar Janaki-Mammootty film where the latter plays a mentally challenged man.
In the meantime, he continued with Telugu and Tamil films, venturing onto Kannada, where he did not change his name, as he did yet again, this time to M.M. Kreem, when he scored the music for ‘Criminal’, Mahesh Bhatt’s 1995 Telugu-Hindi bilingual thriller based on ‘The Fugitive’ and starring Nagarjuna, Ramya Krishna and Manisha Koirala.
- 3/13/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
CinemaFeaturing an ensemble cast of Mohanlal, Mammootty, Seema and Shobhana, the 1985 Malayalam film is a commentary on parenting, caste hypocrisies and more. Neelima MenonYouTube /Movie ReelsThe setting is quintessentially Mt — in the backdrop of a nondescript village/town in central Kerala, where men, women and children speak in a prominent Valluvanadan dialect. They live inside massive nalukettus, or unassuming square-shaped homes with spacious front yards and verandahs. Kitchens have black oxidised floors, stained smoke walls, pantries made of stone slabs and large wood-fired stoves. Houses are snugly lined next to each other with just a bamboo fence separating them. Children play all day, and are rarely shut inside their homes. Written by Mt Vasudevan Nair and directed by IV Sasi, the two leading characters in Anubandham (1985) are neighbours — Sunanda (Seema), who is a widow and has a son, and Vijayalakshmi (Shobhana), who lives with her husband Bhaskaran (Mohanlal) and son.
- 7/19/2022
- by LakshmiP
- The News Minute
MollywoodCaptain Raju has acted in more than 500 films, excelling in the role of the villain but also delivering memorable performances in comedy. Neelima MenonOver 500 films. A career spanning over three decades in Malayalam (200 films), a few in Tamil, Telugu (70 films), and one each in Hindi and English. Captain Raju’s career graph can be best described as uneventful, yet surprisingly he has come up with quite a few memorable performances. It’s also interesting how despite playing a villain for the longest time, he has effectively broken the stereotype and experimented a lot with a terrain that doesn’t necessarily go with his tall and stern onscreen image—comedy. We bring you some of the most talked about roles of the late actor. Sathyaraj (Avanazhi): He was the main antagonist of this I.V. Sasi crime thriller scripted by T. Damodaran. A worthy adversary to Inspector Balram, he killed without...
- 9/17/2018
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Remembering legendary Malayalam filmmaker I.V. Sasi, whose films played a strong part in turning Mammootty into a superstar and the growth of Mohanlal into a leading man...
- 10/25/2017
- Film Companion
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