Moving to a permanent home

From today, Vellithira is moving to a permanent home. With this change comes a name change too. The new site is
http://varnachitram.com
When we started this site we did not know that there would be such an overwhelming response to our articles. As the readership started increasing, we realized that it should have its own [...]

We disagree with Blessy

From today, Vellithira is moving to a permanent home. With this change comes a name change too. The new site is
http://varnachitram.com
When we started this site we did not know that there would be such an overwhelming response to our articles. As the readership started increasing, we realized that it should have its own [...]

Kerala State Film Awards – 2005

Kerala State Film Awards for 2005 has been announced by a jury with Sibi Malayil as the chairman

Category
Winner

Best Film
Thanmatra

Best Director
Blessy

Best Actor
Mohanlal (Thanmatra)

Best Actress
Navya Nair (Saira, Kanne Madanguga)

Acting – Special Mention by Jury
Dilip (Chanthupottu)

Best Actor(Runner Up)
Salim Kumar (Achanurangatha Veedu)

Best Actress(Runner Up)
Bhavana (Daivanamathil)

Best Film (Runner Up)
Achanurangatha Veedu

Popular Movie
Achuvinte Amma

Best Screenplay
Blessy (Thanmatra)

Best Story
Aryadan Shoukath (Daivanamathil)

Best Song Writer
Ponkunnam Damodaran [...]

2005 – Music

K J Yesudas
K S Chitra

As usual Malayalam Cinema produced good music in 2005 and we have a brief review of what was worth listening. We also talk about each singer’s best work, the best films and the best music directors.
We believe that Yesudas and Chitra are God’s gift to mankind and so let’s start with [...]

Vesham – Review

We have lost count of how many All Sacrificing BrotherTM (ASB) movies we have seen, this must be Malayalees answer to Bollywoods Jai-Vijay twins separated at birth type of movies. And with the moderate success of Vesham, it seems that Malayalees still has appetite for these type of movies.
Pappan(Innocent) was a porter in Calicut market [...]

Coming soon: Two murder mysteries

Suresh Gopi
Bhavana

Apart from the CBI series, not many murder mysteries have come out in recent times. Even if you look back, there are not many memorable ones, except for Mukham, Kariyilakkattu Pole, Utharam and The Truth. Now two new murder mysteries are in the making with Suresh Gopi and Kalabhavan Mani in the lead roles.
In [...]