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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicMalayalam Cinema

Topic: Malayalam Cinema

Meet Malayalam actor Kalyani Priyadarshan who beat Mohanlal at Kerala box office

Despite Mohanlal’s strong track record this year, with ‘L2: Empuraan’ and ‘Thudaram’ crossing Rs 200 crore, ‘Hridayapoorvam’ fell short against ‘Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra’.

Thudarum’s Prakash Varma went from Zoology to ads. Now, he’s Malayalam cinema’s breakout star

‘I was wondering if people would take it well, watching him treat Mohanlal like that,” said Varma's wife, Sneha Iype. But Kerala's audience has declared that Varma stole the show.

Mohanlal is riding on a thriller high with two hits in a row—Thudarum and Empuraan

Thudarum has heavily leaned in on the nostalgia of the Mohanlal-Shobana pairing. One of the film’s posters features an AI-generated version of their younger selves.

Prithviraj says Bollywood’s crisis is a phase. ‘Not long ago we looked up to Hindi cinema’

Why is Malayalam cinema thriving? Prithviraj says it's because 'we place the writer at the centre'

‘Writers don’t retire like sportspersons. You’re very junior at 30’ says author Benyamin

Benyamin is writing a serialised novel, Mulberry. Chapters of the book are released weekly in the magazine Mathrubhumi Azhchappathippu. He plans to publish it as a book once it is complete.

‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ gets a north Indian remake. It’ll be triggering, says screenwriter

Sanya Malhotra and Nishant Dahiya play the leads in Mrs. There are more vocal moments in the remake, streaming now on Zee 5. The wife talks about her desires to her husband, only to be gaslit.

Jagathy Sreekumar returns to Malayalam cinema after 12 yrs. His role will be different now

Actor Kabir Duhan Singh is excited about the comeback. While he has several Malayalam projects in the pipeline, he hopes to collaborate with the legendary Sreekumar someday.

That umbilical cord scene gave me sleepless nights: Marco’s Kabir Duhan Singh

The toll of portraying such a dark character led Kabir Duhan Singh to seek spiritual solace. After wrapping up the 18-day pre-climax shoot, he flew to Uttarakhand with a friend.

Malayalam cinema has found its Animal moment. Audience loving extreme violence in Marco

A woman even threw up after watching the extreme gore and violence depicted in the film, reports suggest.

India overtakes China to become Asia’s top IPO market & Kohli-Konstas collide Down Under

Global media also reported on the safe return of Hindu pilgrims who had crossed the border to Pakistan to visit Katas Raj temples in Chakwal & remembered 'Kerala’s pride’ MT Vasudevan Nair.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.