Category: 2016

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2016 Asif Ali Malayalam

Biju Menon & Asif Ali as a father-son duo (2016)

I finally got the film’s name right today. Anuraga Karikkin Vellam.

The film opens to a nuclear family, a working policeman father (Biju Menon), a housewife mother (Asha Sharath), an older son looking for a job after his course in architecture (Asif Ali) & a school going daughter. The rest of the cast are friends/colleagues of this central family. However, the strain in their relationship stands out, be it between the husband-wife, father-son and mother-son.

Eli (Rajisha Vijayan) is Abhi (Ali’s) girlfriend from college, but their relation too is filled with irritations, and not much love. So they break up, however she has a way to return to Abhi’s life. Her intervention brings in the much needed ice breaker and spark back into his family. That’s in short the story of the film, and the transformation from strain to familial ..

Soubin, Sreenath Bhasi, Irshad & Sudhir Karamana support this cast.

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2016 biopic English

Dev Patel as Sheru, Lion (2016)

A boy is lost in India when he was a child. 25 years later he goes in search of his mother and brother from Australia. The trailer is pretty intriguing too.

It takes about 53 minutes for the back story of the film to come to the present and begin the search. The narration is linear, no flash backs. The pace keeps the interest going. and the trauma of a boy who remembers his past in patches brings up an emotional connection. it is quite an adventure. Sunny Pawar as the younger Saroo is adorable!

It is always the little memories. In case of Saroo (Dev Patel) it is the jalebis/immerthis that rekindle his urgency to get set go in search for his mother and elder brother.

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2016 Tamil

Aruvi (2016) 🥰

**No spoilers**

By now everyone in Tamil Nadu & Kerala, even people with little knowledge of workable Tamil would have watched Aruvi. The film came highly recommended from a friend. And, I found in the first few minutes into it, it wasn’t the difficult Tamil I couldn’t understand but something I could without subtitles for most of the part. That was one barrier down!

I’d say watch Aruvi – Highly recommended

It tells the story of a girl, Aruvi, who grew up loving the rain, fresh springs, nature in its greenest in her littlest days until her family relocated to the concrete busy congested no visible nature city, setting up a contrast at a personal & public levels. It is bildungsroman in genre as it shows Aruvi growing up. Nevertheless, the narration is the highlight of the film as every review will tell you! The audience may figure out the core reason for her motives early on in the film, (she has a motive behind her actions) but the innocence with which she goes about with it is what makes Aruvi different. The film sends a poignant message across to the audience especially in the times we live in where we stop to ponder that our minds function/think unconsciously in a prescribed direction.

Tips: I did switch on the subtitles for two long set of dialogues, but otherwise, a non Tamil speaker like me, (I have minimal knowledge of the language) could understand..

Happy watching on Amazon Prime, sneak peak into the trailer here

Spoiler: there is a plenty to smile about.

A rating guide to films here …

  1. I loved it .. 🥰
  2. Watched it more than once. (I watched #Virus about 5 times) 🥰🥰
  3. Had to watch another film to wear off the hangover 🙄
  4. Slept off in the middle of it 😴
  5. Didn’t like the first half, wanted to run away from the theatre. Post interval was superb 🤪😃
  6. Popular opinion vs mine 🤔
  7. Watch at your own risk. I didn’t enjoy the film 🙃😈
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