IFFK 2009- www.iffk.in-14th International Film Festival of Kerala-2009 begins on Dec 11

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With the screening of Turkish irector Atilt Inac's film 'A step into Darkness' as the inaugural film ,the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala-2009 (IFFK) will be kicked off at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) on December 11.

In the competition section, 14 films, including two Malayalam films would be screened. Malyalam film Pazhassiraja of Hariharan had been included in the world cinema category.Kerala cafe also included in IFFK.
164 films in 11 categories would be screened in the eight-day-long film extravaganza, which would conclude on December 18.
The best film would receive a golden peacock and a cash prize of Rs ten lakh.
The director of the winning film, debutant director, the director of the best film selected by the viewers would receive a silver peacock and Rs three, Rs two and Rs one lakh respectively, he added.
Sri Lankan Director Prasanna Withrarenge, Congolese filmmaker Balufu, Indian film maker Mamtha Sanker, Al Khalisi, Egyptian Director would be the other jury members.
In retrospective section films by Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, Japan's Mikio Naruse, France's Jacques Tati, and Mrinal Sen and Lohitadas and Italian director Francesco Rosi had been included.
Besides this, seven films each from Indian cinema today and Malayalam cinema today would be screened in the festival.
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Santhosh Sivan turns actor as Raja Ravi Varma in 'Makara Manju'

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These days few good movies are appearing in Malayalam. Mammootty's 'Pazhassi Raja' and ' Kerala Cafe' are good example. Historical movies as always good for remembering the past and will be a good experience for the younger generations.
Santosh Sivan will make his first appearance as an actor when he plays the role of Raja Ravi Varma, the famous painter, in Lenin Rajendran's Malayalam film titled 'Makara Manju'.
Santosh Sivan is a well known film director and cinematographer.He has won five National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards, and ten international film festival awards.

Raja Ravi Varma is the world famous painter who was born in Kerala on April 29, 1848 and his paintings are considered to be among the best examples of fusing Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art.Raja Ravi Varma was born at Ravi Varma Koil Thampuran of Kilimanoor palace in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in Kerala.

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Paleri Manikyam - Mammootty's double role - oru paathira kolapaathakathinte kadha

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Mammootty dons a double role in this movie Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathira Kolapathakathinte Kadha..Debutante Mythili is doing the character, Manikyam.
The movie is based on writer T P Rajeevan's novel ‘Paleri Manikyam’.Megastar Mamooty and Director Ranjith join again in this movie.


Apart from Mammootty and Mythili main roles are handled by Sreenivasan, Siddique, T Damodaran and Shwetha Menon.
The storyline goes like this: Haridas, a private detective, is investigating the murder of a young woman, Manikyam, which happened over 50 years back. It’s about a girl named Manikyam who was raped and murdered brutally on the eleventh day after her marriage.The case was closed since there was no clue and no suspects were found. The incident happened in a place called ‘Paleri’ near Kozhikode.Haridas is assisted by Sarayu Sharma, a criminologist, in the investigation.


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Navya Nair -Santhosh Menon Marriage-Navya Nair to wed Santosh Menon-actress Navya Nair Wedding

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Malayalam film Industry missed many talented actresses after their marriage.Be it Manju Warrier or Parvathi.
Malayalam actress Navya Nair one of the most successful Malayalam actress in recent years is alos oing to get married soon.

Navya Nair, who has also acted in Tamil and Kannada movies, is getting married early next year.Navya is marrying Santhosh Menon, who is from Kottayam in Kerala and works with a multinational company in Mumbai. The wedding will take place at Navya's hometown in Muthukulam in Alappuzha district.She bagged the Kerala State Film Award for best actress for her performance in 'Nandanam'.It was followed by another state award in 2005 for her role in the movies, 'Kanne Madanguka’ and ‘Saira’.
Here role in 'Nanadanam' was appreciated by Many.
Recently Kavya Madhavan got married and had some serious family issues anc came back to acting. We dont know whether Navya Nair will continue acting in movies or she will simply quit movie industry after the marriage.



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Malayalam movies of 2009 - Hit and flop movies-Malayalkam films in 2009

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The tragedy of Malayalam movies continued in 2009 also.Out of around 80 movies released in Malayalam around a dozen movies are hit collected good money.Mammootty scored two hits while Mohanlal scored only one.Much hyped Mohanlal movie 'Sagar alias Jacky Reloaded' disappointed the film goers.(Read:Real story of 'Sagar Alias Jackie - Reloaded'-Moha...)
'Pazhassi Raja' turned out as the biggest event of the Malayalam film Industry and '2 Harihar Nagar' became a mega hit and a complete entertainment.
Pritviraj and Jayaram scored two hit movies while Mohanlal,Dileep,Jayasuriya ,Sreenivasan and Mukesh scored one each.
There was a unique experience and experiment happened in Malayalam film industry that was Kerala Cafe.(Read:Malayalam film Kerala Cafe on October 2) 

Here is the list of Highest grossing films in 2009 and list of Hit movies of 2009. 

1 Pazhassi Raja
Direction :T.Hariharan
Stroy,Screenplay : MT Vasudevan Nair
Genre : Action
Main Actors : Mammootty, Sarath Kumar, Biju Menon, Padmapriya, Manoj.K.Jayan, Kanika Subramaniam, Captain Raju, Thilakan, Jagathy Sreekumar

2 2 Harihar Nagar
Direction :Lal
Genre : Comedy
Main Actors :Mukesh, Siddique, Jagadish, Asokan, Lakshmi Rai

3 Puthiya Mukham
Direction :Diphan
Genre : Action, Thriller
Main Actors :Pritviraj, Bala, Meera Nandan, Priyamani, Sai Kumar

4 Bhagyadevatha
Direction :Sathyan Anthikad
Genre : Drama
Main Actors :Jayaram, Narain, Nedumudi Venu, Venu Nagavally, K.P.A.C.Lalitha, Kanika Subramaniam

5 Bhramaram
Direction :Blessy
Genre : Drama
Main Actors : Mohanlal, Suresh Menon, Bala Chandra Menon, Suresh Menon, Bhoomika, V.G.Muralikrishnan

6 Robinhood
Direction :Joshy
Genre : Action, Thriller
Main Actors :Prithwiraj, Narain, Bhavana, Jayasurya, Biju Menon, Samvrutha Sunil

7 Passenger
Direction :Renjit Sanker
Genre : Comedy, Suspense, Thriller
Main Actors :Dileep, Sreenivasan, Mamta Mohandas, Jagathy Sreekumar

8 Loudspeaker
Direction :Jayaraj
Genre : Comedy
Main Actors :Mammootty, Sasi Kumar, Jagathy Sreekumar, Innocent, Gracy Singh

9 Ivar Vivahitharayal
Direction :Saji Surendran
Genre : Romance, Comedy
Main Actors :Jayasurya, Bhama, Siddique, Samvrutha Sunil, Navya Nair

10 Makante achan
Direction :V.M.Vinu
Genre :Comedy, Drama
Main Actors :Sreenivasan, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Suhasini

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Nokia Online music store launched in Kerala

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Media reports that Nokia had partnered with India Music Industry, a consortium of over 150 music companies to give opportunity to customers to discover and enjoy their favourite music.
The music lovers can now access and download music to their handset directly from Nokia music store online. Nokia launched its online Music Store in Kerala offering music lovers access to over 30 lakh international, Bollywood and regional soundtracks across 20 genres.
Customers can utilize the Nokia music store (http://music.nokia.co.in) via inbox vouchers included in all XpressMusic handsets and select Nseries and ESeries mobile devices. There were plans to launch vouchers ranging from Rs 25 to Rs 200.
The store has a rich catalogue of music from the state ranging from the legendary Yesudas to M G Sreekumar and S Janaki, K S Chitra, Jyotsna among others.
A customer can listen to 30 second clip of any track on the store before downloading it and can also browse for new music. Users will be able to download directly to a mobile device without having to download the same song again on their computer.
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Kerala Cafe the unique movie on October 2nd

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The binding theme is 'journey' Kerala Cafe is a collection of 10 short films of 10 to 12 minutes duration.
Kerala Cafe, an amalgamation of 10 short films,a novel venture by filmmaker Renjith and directed by a team of 10 directors scheduled to release on October 2nd.
The 10 directors includes Lal Jose, Shaji Kailas, Anwar Rasheed, Shyamaprasad, B. Unnikrishnan, Revathy, Anjali Menon, M. Padmakumar, Shankar Ramakrishnan and Uday Ananthan.
The binding theam is 'journey' Kerala Cafe is a collection of 10 short films of 10 to 12 minutes duration. Kerala Cafe which probes into contemporary issues, will finally bring all the 10 characters at the Railway Station's cafeteria, Kerala Cafe.
Kerala cafe brings almost all the top actors, barring Mohanlal and Dileep into its unique venture.
Kerala cafe featuring Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Prithviraj, Rahman, Kalabhavan Mani, Jagathy and Jayasurya.
People are waiting to watch this unique movie and it is already created great interest among film goers.

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Pazhassi Raja in five languages release on October 2 across 500 centers

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Pazhassi Raja will be released in as many as five languages and in an astounding number of 500 centers across the world.The epic Malayalam movie Pazhassi Raja by M T Vasudevan Nair, directed by Hariharan and title role handled by Mammootty to release internationally on the 2nd of October. This movie is expected to become a masterpiece work from legendary writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair, director Hariharan and superstar Mammootty. The original Malayalam version will be released in 125 centers and the same number of prints will be there for the Tamil and the Telugu versions as well.
Oscar winner Resul Pookutty has provided the sound and music maestro Ilayaraja has scored the music.
Malayalam mega star Mammootty play the title role.The film is about Pazhassi Raja who fought against the British, in a guerrilla style war in Wayanad.
Pazhassi Raja definitley going to be an all-time classic.
The movie Pazhassi Raja is expected to be another big hit from Hariharan, M.T. Vasudevan Nair and Mammootty team.Their previous mega hit combination was unforgettable `Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha'.
Tamil actor Sarath Kumar and Telugu actor Suman also plays key roles in the movie. Sarath Kumar plays Edachena Kunkan, Pazhassi Raja’s thalapathy (Commander -in -chief).Padmapriya and Kanika play the lead heroine roles in the movie.

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Dileep to be Valayar Paramasivam ,a sequel to Runway?

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Dileep is now back to play this title character in the new movie titled 'Valayar Paramashivam'.Valayar Paramashivam is a name you have heard in the Dileep-Kavya Madhavan super hit Malayalam movie Runway.It is expected that the movie will start after Dillep's 'Swantham Lekhakan' which is also the comeback film of actress Gopika.
Now it will have a sequel.Dileep's last film, the Fazil directed 'Moss and Cat' was a huge disaster at the box-office.Movie industry media reports that The movie will be directed by the veteran filmmaker Joshy.
Sibi K Thomas and Udhay Krishna are handling the scripts.Valayar Paramashivam is planned as a hilarious action thriller.

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SureshGopi ,Mohanlal in Malayalam film Janakan

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The film Janakan will be directed by debutant director N R Sanjeev.After the super hit Malayalam film Twenty:20 super stars of Malayalam film industry Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi are coming together in another mega budget movie named Janakan.
According to the movie industry media the shooting of Janakan is progressing in Thiruvananthapuram.
S N Swamy who is known for the CBI series is in charge of the script of this movie.The movie expected to be a detective thriller.The cinema also has Harisree Asokan and Biju Menon in important roles.
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Vincenzo Bocciarelli in 'In Love with Kerala' a movie to promote Kerala Tourism

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Vincenzo Bocciarelli in 'In Love with Kerala' a movie to promote Kerala Tourism will have Mamta Mohandas in the lead actress role.
The movie tells the story of an Italian Painter who comes to India to admire the beauty of Kerala and to recreate the famous Raja Ravi Varma paintings.
The love story unfolds when the painter falls in love with a Kerala Malayali girl.The major tourist destinations of kerala like Kovalam ,Varkala,Kollam,Kumarakom,Kottayam,Alappuzha,Cochin,Munnar,Thekadi,Vagamon,Calicut,Bekkal and wayanad will act as the backdrops of the story.This film from kerala is expected to boost the tourist inflow to kerala and India.
Vincenzo Bocciarelli, a popular Italian actor, will be the hero of In Love with Kerala.The movie will have Mamta Mohandas playing the lead heroine and the actor’s love interest.
www.inlovewithkerala.com has more details about the movie
In Love with Kerala is produced by deutsches group germany and Tourism Movie Makers.

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Kavya Madhavan, Prithviraj in movie Maadan Kolli

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After a brief gap after the marriage Kavya madhavan is all set to come back to Malayalam movie industry.Now Kavya is getting Ready for a comeback through the movie Maadan Kolli starring Prithviraj in the lead role.It is reported that Kavya has been going through some problems in her personal life after her marriage with Nishal Chandra.

Maadan Kolli will be directed by Major Ravi and Kavya will be portraying the role of Neelambari IPS.Media reports that the horror movie tells the story of a blood thirsty vampire during the night who kills any and sundry, while during the day time she probes into this case to find out the real culprit. Prithviraj plays the hero in this movie portrays the role of an exorcist, Devadathan Narsimhan.
Malayalam movie media reports that Maadan Kolli which is to start shooting in December is slated to be a Vishu release in 2010.
The script is by Malayala Manorama Weekly fame Sunil Parameswaran who has scripted Ananthabhadram directed by Santosh Sivan in which Prithviraj was the hero.
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Yodha 2,Sequel to 1992 hit 'Yodha'

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After the mega success of To Harihar Nagar ,the sequel to hit film In Harihar Nagar,the 1992 film Yodha all set to get a sequel.As usual Malayalam film industry is going behind the trends.
Yodha which was made way back in 1992 directed by Santhosh Sivan with Mohanlal and Jagathy Sreekumar in the lead roles.
The Yodha music was done by the great musician A R Rahman and in the sequel it will be done by Harris Jayraj.
The Mohanlal -Jagathi Sreekumar team will be there but Urvashi and Madhubala will not be there in the sequel.This big budgest movie is expected to rope in Lakshmi Rai as the heroine.
Movie industry media reports that Puneet Issar, who had essayed the villain's roles will be seen in the sequel also.The sequel, Yodha 2, will continue from where the prequel ended.
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Mammootty in Chattambinadu heroine is Lakshmi Rai

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Mammootty again teams up with Shafi.Mammootty's third film with Shafi will be chattambinadu.Shafi and Mammooty combination yielded good results in the past.'Mayavi','Thommanum Makkalum' are the previous films.

This time the movie 'Chattambinadu will be produced by Mammootty's own production company 'Play House'.

Read:Mammootty turns producer, distributor launches production house ...

Script is by Benny P. Nayarambalam.According to film media reports Lakshmi Rai will be the heroine of the movie and another major role will be handled by Mukesh.
Chattambinadu is a comedy-based action thriller where Mammootty will play Veerendra Mallaya, a Karnataka-based Malayalee estate owner with a Kannada accent.The highlight of the film will be Mammootty's characteristic traits and accent.
Let us expect a good entertainment from the team.

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Nadiya Moidu Mammootty in Doubles.

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Nadiya Moidu is one of the Kerala's most favourite yesteryear's actress.She is back with a bang.She will be seen with Mammootty in his forthcoming Doubles.The movie will be directed debutant Sohan Sinulal.She will be essaying the character of Mammootty’s sister in the movie doubles.
Mammootty and Nadiya Moidu had acted together in many movies like Shyama, Poovinu Puthiya Poonthennal etc.
Nadiya Moidu, who had a very successful career left film industry following her wedding.
Nadiya will be seen in the role of a twin sister to the character essayed by Mammootty.The movie also has Salimkumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Biju Kuttan and others. Read more»

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