Machante Malakha movie review: A competition between regressive ideas and outdated filmmaking

Soubin Shahir and Namitha Pramod in a still from Machante Malakha. A certain machine-like uniformity marks the male and female characters in Boban Samuel’s Machante Malakha. While almost all the male characters are good-hearted and submissive, a majority of the female characters are scheming ones trying every trick in their book to make life difficult…

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‘Pravinkoodu Shappu’ movie review: Basil Joseph, Soubin Shahir’s intriguing thriller underutilises its potential

Basil Joseph in a still from ‘Pravinkoodu Shappu’ One well-crafted sequence can sometimes make a film worthwhile, even when the film in its totality hits a notch below where it could have. These sequences tell us of the possibilities that a filmmaker holds, and serve as a showreel of someone whose work is worth looking…

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