MollywoodHe hurt his leg, causing a ligament injury, during the shooting of the film 'Vilayath Buddha' in Idukki.Actor Prithviraj was injured in the sets of a Malayalam film in Marayoor of Idukki in Kerala on Sunday, June 25. He hurt his leg, causing a ligament injury, during the shooting of the film Vilayath Buddha. The actor slipped and fell while jumping, hurting his leg, at a bus stand during the shooting of a fight scene. He was at first taken to a nearby hospital in Idukki, and from there, shifted to a private one in Kochi. He is expected to undergo keyhole surgery on Monday. Reports say that he may need to take a break for two to three months after the surgery. Vilayath Buddha is directed by debutant Jayan Nambiar, who worked as an Assistant Director in Prithviraj’s hugely popular film Ayyappanum Koshiyum. The script of...
- 6/26/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
MollywoodThe Shaji Kailas era in Malayalam cinema gave leverage to the emergence of the bombast-spouting alpha male heroes on screen. At a time when flawed, sensitive male characters are finding space on the screen, where do his alpha male heroes feature? Neelima MenonThe word is that filmmakers of the older generation from Sibi Malayil, Sathyan Anthikad, and Kamal to Lal Jose, are all struggling to make an impact, with their cinematic graphs showing a decline in the last 10 years. Among them is Shaji Kailas, one of the most successful mainstream filmmakers in Malayalam cinema, who had been in self-imposed exile for a long time since 2013 after his Malayalam film, Ginger (2013), a comedy headlining Jayaram, sank without a trace. Now 9 years later, when Malayalam cinema is chasing newer narratives, milieus, and subverting cliches and stereotypes, Shaji Kailas re-emerged with Kaduva, a story set in the ’90s, headlining an alpha male hero...
- 1/26/2023
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
MollywoodJayan Nambiar was also working on his own directorial, which the late Sachy was scripting, before his untimely demise in June. Digital NativeSachyThe untimely death of scriptwriter and director Sachy in June this year had left the film industry in complete shock. This also cast doubts in the minds of the movie buffs about the progress of the Prithivraj starrer that was announced in March earlier this year. Jayan Nambiar, who worked as the associate director in Sachy’s Anarkali and Ayyappanum Koshiyum was supposed to direct the film. While Sachy was working on the script of this film, he was also planning to direct Vilayath Buddha adapted from the Gr Indugopan’s novel of the same title. Ever since Sachy’s death, the fate of both these projects were hanging in the balance but it is now confirmed that Jayan Nambiar will be taking up Vilayath Buddha. He said...
- 9/28/2020
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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