Malayalam cinema is controlled in a spider like web by the two superstar-Mammootty and Mohanlal. The Malayalee audience from Neyyantinkara to New York just refuses to accept new comers and young heroes and their loyalty and devotion to the masters-M&M is total and unflinching.
Nobody has been able to crack the code and yesterday’s newcomers like Kunchakko Boban, Pritviraj, Indrajeet, Vineeth, Jayasurya, Madhu Warrier, Manikuttan, Siddharth, Jishnu, Sunil, Arun etc have all failed to connect with the audience. None of these heroes have been able to churn out a hit on their own strength at the box-office.
Why is it that Malayalees as a whole refuse to accept and encourage young blood when Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and even Kannada cinema whole-heartedly support young actors? It is still a mystery that is yet to be solved as the two M’s continue their stranglehold over the Kerala box-office!
Meanwhile the trade and those who are craving for a change are praying that two films releasing shortly - Lal Jose’s Classmates and Roshan Andrews Notebook will make the difference and do the wonder.
Classmates-
It is a campus love story with Pritviraj, Indrajeet, Sunil, Jayasurya and Kavya Madhavan. Lal Jose has spent nearly Rs 2 Crore to give the film a chic look as it release for Onam. Lal of ‘Lal Films’ who made his money through superstar films is aggressively marketing Classmates.
Notebook
Roshan Andrews the director who made that path breaking film Udayananu Tharam is completing a film with an all new star cast and releases for Ramzan. This film is produced by P.V.Gangadharan of ‘Grihalakshmi Productions’ one of the reputed banners in Malayalam. It is a teenage love story set in the prestigious Lawrence school, Lovedale in Ooty.
Says Roshan: “I believe that if the story and packaging is good, then the film will click irrespective of the stars.” Andrews is introducing a host of teenagers like Sooraj, a Bangalore Malayalee, Maria from Kottayam who is a relative of Arundhati Roy and Parvathy the Kiran TV anchor. Rama another Mallu girl from Chennai, Majo a musician from Kochi and Anna from Changanacherry are also in Notebook
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