Today I was fortunate enough to meet the famous director Lal Jose with my friends Nikhil and Varun. They interviewed Lal Jose for almost 3 hours, the interview will be available in their blogs as well as the Neelathamara blog. Nikhil asked him a question “Continuous release of bad films from super stars are affecting the ability of the audience to evaluate movies. Do you agree ?” The answer surprised me. He said, there is a...

Recent troubles in the movie industry got me thinking. Three movies that I saw recently in the theatre are Indiana Jones, Madambi and Subramaniyapuram. Among these three, Subramaniyapuram was the best, Indiana Jones was average and Madambi was a total waste. But for all the three I paid 40 Rs. For every other product out there, the manufacturer can set the price. It depends on production cost, quality and demand. But why are we...

Recently there had been a lot of discussion and fights in the Malayalam movie industry about Corporate’s entering the industry. They call them monopolies, but I call them corporate’s. They are companies like Ad-Labs, Pyramid Saimira, UTV etc. The existing unions in the movie industry are not very excited with the coming of such companies. But for the audience and people with real talent its a welcome move. Film industry...