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'Sara'S' review: Anchored by a powerful script, this simple film breaks the conventions of the feel-good template

Jude Anthany Joseph's third feature, after Ohm Shanti Oshana and Oru Muthassi Gadha, released on Prime Video at midnight today. This seemingly feel-good film, also seemingly made in limited spaces and with a shoestring budget, tackles a concept and issue never tested before in Malayalam cinema  circles. In Sara'S, we follow the life of Sara Vincent (Anna Ben), a young, bubbly, yet unapologetic filmmaker who struggles to make it big in the industry. She continuously assists male directors and is in the scripting works of her dream film. Sara has decided, from her school days, that she would not bear any kids. This is when she meets Jeevan (Sunny Wayne); her relationship with him subsequently brings her ideology and decision into a confrontation with the established norms of society, family and child-rearing.  Anna Ben in Sara'S The best aspect in which Sara'S has excelled, without doubt, is its hard-hitting taut script. Debutant Akshay Hareesh deserves praise for managin

Jurassic World- crazy and all-out thrill

When the Jurassic Park  came out to the silver screen, movie-goers had expected to see something off the books, something the Spielberg-y style; and Steve Spielberg didn't disappoint in carrying out that job. As the two sequels moved on, the same audience had somewhat lost hope on the dinos hitting the screen once again. But when Colin Trevorrow promised something big, the hopes were revived once again. Here's the review on Jurassic World . We are journeyed back to the old Isla Nublar we saw in the 1994 Jurassic Park, but this time it is no longer the old dinosaur breeding/sanctuary park but a high tech amusement theme park, or figuratively the Disney land of dinosaurs. Headed by Simon Israni( Irrfan Khan ) and the park's bossy yet brave operations manager, Claire Dearing ( Bryce Dallas Howard ), the scientist group at JW create a hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex,  for the intention of attracting sponsorship and at the same time increase visiting numbers. However, th