The additional screenplay writer of ‘Neelavelicham’, which released this week, on how director Aashiq Abu onboarded him for his remake of the five-decade-old Malayalam classic, a horror-romantic-investigative thriller, on staying true to the original and the many departures.
Abu's latest film, Neelavelicham starring Tovino Thomas, Rima Kallingal and Roshan Mathew, is based on a story penned by the legendary Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
With her new short film 'Lalanna's Song', with Nakshatra Indrajith in the titular role, filmmaker Megha Ramaswamy spins yet another beguiling, bizarre tale of spaces women inhabit, operate, oppress and combust in and the remains of the day from the meteoric collision of the adult's and child's worlds.
Shot in an unbroken 82-minute take, and with a single fixed camera, this Malayalam film is a dynamic exploration of a relationship facing a possible crisis.