10 MALAYALAM MOVIES WITH COMPLEX FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIPS

 

                                                                             film Kireedam

There is no dearth of Malayalam movies dealing with the warmth and compassion in relationships between fathers and sons. Deshadanam, Thanmatra, Pappayude Swantham Appoos and Piravi among others, portray the said bond that could be variously classified as loving, friendly, protective, understanding and so on. But these relationships with the given variables of society, circumstances, and one’s inherent nature, more often than not, complicate matters resulting in slightly different outcomes, and these too are portrayed brilliantly in Malayalam movies. Following is a list of such particularly complex father-son relationships that deviate from those conventional ones built on love and respect alone, that you might want to reflect upon. That six out of the ten in the list feature one of the stalwarts of Malayalam cinema, Thilakan, says quite something about this late veteran actor and eternal father we will all love and admire forever in all his diverse avatars.

20 MALAYALAM COMEDY MOVIES that will make you laugh till it hurts

film Sanmanasullavarku Samadhanam

As the man once said, “Laughter is the best medicine”, it’s been long since man has started talking about the importance of laughter and longer still since he’s been laughing. We have always known the importance of comedy movies and we’ve been continuously making them for a long time, in fact in great quantity too. Malayalam Cinema has produced countless good comedies over the years although the language barrier has jaded its popularity to a niche audience. It's extremely difficult to sum them all up in a list of twenty, but the ones listed are invariably a few of the best examples in the genre and will make you laugh till it hurts real bad.  So have a blast!

10 VISUALLY STUNNING MALAYALAM MOVIES of all time

film Vanaprastham

Inspired by his own inherent obsession with good looks, Man has reserved a considerable judgment based on appearance even when it comes to his own creations. This has formed the basis of art appreciation the world over, even movie critiquing. While there is no dearth of good-looking films in Malayalam in general, there might be a serious scarcity of those ones with quality. There is also a general tendency to assume a visually stunning film to be one with lots of style and absolutely no substance. So the following ten Malayalam films are chosen on the basis of its artistic merit as much as their visual relevance.

12 MALAYALAM MURDER MYSTERY MOVIES totally worth your time

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film Mukham

Long before the invention of cinema, mystery stories, and most of all, murder mysteries have been observed to be of high entertainment value as short stories, novels as well as plays. Then movies came, and they started making murder mystery movies that were a hugely popular genre, and that has continued to evolve in setting and style as the time went by. In Malyalam cinema, this genre has had a wide palette of patrons and a wider range of audience to relish it. We have always loved them! Following is a list of some of the greatest murder mystery movies in the Malayalam language that is absolutely worth your time.

15 GREATEST FEMALE CHARACTERS IN MALAYALAM CINEMA

Our cinema without the bulk of feminine presence that has kept us grounded over the years since its very conception would have ended up being merely a testosterone-ridden butch-fest with brutish energy aimlessly whip-lashing in ever possible directions, not to mention the threat of repetitive themes and restricted premises. While critics are going nonstop about the lack of good female characters in films world over, there was luckily no dearth of their powerful presence in Malayalam cinema (overlooking the 2000s maybe) from the time of the melodramatic excesses of the black and white era. They never stopped coming at us as sensual divas, crazy lovers, caring mothers, nagging wives, frightening psychos, despotic leaders and charming prostitutes. Here is a list of some of the most memorable female characters in Malayalam cinema immortalized by our rich tradition of talented actors, although not all of them are brought to fruition solely by the goodwill of the respective actors, as most of them wouldn’t have taken off the ground without the bountiful blessings of a handful of gifted dubbing artists working in the industry.

5 MOST DISTURBING MALAYALAM MOVIES that will mess with your head

Be it the spurting jet of blood in a cock fighting pit or the spinning head of a decapitated gladiator, man has discovered scope of sport and entertainment in the misery and pain of others from the beginning of mankind. It must be from these basic reflexes that unsavory graphics of blood as well as traumatic subjects causing mental agony gradually infiltrated the thematic range and sensibilities of world cinema. Malayalam films have however refrained more-or-less from graphical representation of gore and violence as much as possible, but in turn focused more on the psychologically unsettling aspects of sadistic relish when urged by the same instinct, but always staying within artistic confines. There are quite a lot of upsetting films made in Malayalam cinema based on disturbing themes, be it the prolonged claustrophobia in Bharathan’s Malootty or spiraling hopelessness in Blessy’s Thanmatra, but none matches up to the haunting aftertaste that the following five leaves in any sane man’s psyche for days on end.  And none of it has the buffer of any form of stylistic flourishes to ease out the pain.

20 MALAYALAM MOVIES FROM THE 1990s you don’t want to miss

Still from film Vanaprastham

When the golden years of the 80s came to a close in Malayalam cinema, there wasn’t much anybody assumed could be made to trump the sheer excellence of it’s creativity and inventive oeuvre. But what followed in the 90s was not all that disappointing in the beginning, with its fair share of brilliance that would gradually thin out, but not disappear completely even by the end of it. Hence here is a list of those ones that you certainly don’t want to miss from the decade following the prime. Since Malayali audience has never been prejudiced about studio films and independent films, the list have a mixture of commercial as well as art-house movies from all genres possible.