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Vaazha: The Biopic of a Billion Boys revolves around five friends—Ajo, Vishnu, Moosa, Abdul Kalam, and Vivek Anand—who struggle with academic failures and the burden of their middle-class parents’ expectations. The film tracks their lives from childhood to college, highlighting their challenges with unsympathetic teachers, societal pressures, and toxic parenting.

Moosa receives unconditional support from his father, while the others are pressured by their families to pursue careers they don’t want, leading to frustration and disappointment. The film exposes the harsh realities of rigid educational systems and emotional neglect as they move through engineering college and fail to meet their parents’ ambitions. Despite the heavy themes, it maintains a balance with humor and relatability, making the story both compelling and accessible.

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Directed by Anand Menen and written by Vipin Das, Vaazha features a cast that includes Basil Joseph,...

ReviewSenna Hegde who made the wonderful ‘Thingalazhcha Nischayam’ takes a more commercial approach to comedy in this film, which is enjoyable in most parts.CrisKanhangad, or at least the parts of Kanhangad in Kerala’s Kasargod district where Senna Hegde places his new Malayalam film, is so charmingly rustic with muddy red roads and prettily lit bars that it looks partly like a Western of the 1960s. Minus Clint Eastwood, the setting has got everything, complete with the sound of a pistol that goes off every now and then. 1744 White Alto is a raw comedy, enjoyable in most parts, slightly off-putting towards the end, anchored on an unfitting mix of the personal and professional life of a police officer. But Senna is a master caster and all the actors, beginning from the emphatic Sharaf U Dheen to the newcomers, make it a comfortable ride. Unlike his award-winning first release Thingalazhcha Nishchayam,...

ReviewDirector Antony Sony gets his casting right with a script that involves many interesting characters.CrisThe film is titled Priyan Ottathilanu – literally, Priyan is on the run -- and it suits it well. But it also might have been Paavam Paavam Priyan or Nanma Niranjavan Priyan – take-offs from earlier film titles, also apt to describe Priyan. He is full of nanma – goodness – and he is fully paavam – too nice. He would definitely know all these films by heart, such is his love for cinema. But how he tries to reach that dream world, while he runs for just about everyone circling his life is the story of Priyan, short for Priyadarshan. The film is, as expected, quite pleasing, quite the ‘feel-good’ type, but also a little tiresome as all the helpfulness gets to you after a point. The film begins with little Priyan standing on a village path, in school uniform,...

ReviewNikhila Vimal and Mathew Thomas are both able performers, and there are a few good moments in the film.CrisCredit - Facebook / Nikhila VimalFancy gadgets, clothes, and the many changes in lifestyle did not even minutely lift the narrow, nosey, and often regressive mindset of a generation of youngsters, you’d conclude after two hours of Jo & Jo. The new ‘young’ film on the block is, on the surface, about sibling rivalry – enacted by two able performers, Nikhila Vimal and Mathew Thomas. But the core of it appears to be the very Malayali tendency to poke your nose in someone else’s business, moral police them and constantly cook up theories about the things they might be doing. The film is themed on a little tapped subject – that of sibling rivalry, as opposed to the love of an ‘ettan’ or ‘chechi’ shown in many Malayalam films – but ends up being an amateur,...

MollywoodKabinii Films, the producers of ‘1744 White Alto’, have formed an Internal Committee (Ic), which will look into complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace.Tnm StaffPerhaps for the first time, the production house behind a Malayalam film has formed an Internal Committee (Ic) to deal with complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace. Kabinii Films, which is producing Senna Hegde’s new film 1744 White Alto, formed the Ic as soon as the company was registered. The producers shared with the cast and crew the code of conduct to be read and practised during the making of the film. A copy of this document was shared by social media users, who welcomed the much-needed move in an industry where the sexual assault of an actor in 2017 has brought back questions on the safety of women in films. Senna Hegde’s last film, Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam, won a state award and a lot...