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...
Note: This film was the recipient of the Best Picture Award at the 91st Academy Awards. Among the many movies released in 2018 that highlighted the pertinent issue of race relations, Green Book was one small movie that vowed to stand out. Promising a talented duo of Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in lead roles, the story about the acquaintance between an Italian-American bouncer and an Afro-American pianist in the 1960s, the height of racial violence in the "Land of the Free", became a surprise favorite in the race to the awards season. Here's how Green Book appealed to the critic and moviegoer in me. The film follows the lives of an Italian American bouncer, Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) and an African-American pianist Dr. Shirley (Mahershala Ali). Tony is tasked with the responsibility of escorting Shirley, who gets to perform a series of concerts, through the xenophobic American South. The timing is just perfect. The South has become notorious for it...