InterviewFilmmaker Anurag Kashyap is one of the producers of Paka, inspired by tales of the long-lasting feuds between families that migrated from central Kerala to Wayanad over the years. The film released on SonyLIV on July 7.Cris'Paachi' in PakaFrom an inside room of the house, a tired old voice would emerge as soon as someone steps in. Loud reproaches, reprimands, barely muffled curses come from the bed in the corner, where lay an old woman whose face you never see. Nithin Lukose got his grandmother to play the faceless woman, hidden by the camera that never looks at her. He was directing his first film, Paka, a feature that narrated incidents he grew up hearing in his hometown, Wayanad, of old family feuds and never-ending revenges. “Velyamachi (grandmother) would tell us these tales, of how families that migrated from central Kerala to Wayanad had these long lasting feuds, killing and drowning one another,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
Formerly a sound designer whose credits include “Thithi”, winner of the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Nithin Lukose has now turned director with an impressive debut largely based on Keralite folklore passed down to him by his grandmother, which was produced by Anurag Kashyap.
Paka (River of Blood) is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
“Paka” takes place in Kerala’s Wayanad hill country, a region which saw an influx of migrants from other parts of Kerala between the 1940s and 1970s — migrants who brought with them long-simmering grudges and tensions. In this region, Johnny and Anna, two youths from warring families, are about to get married. Expectedly, their marriage is kept under wraps, since Anna’s uncles are in no mood to bury the hatchet, while both of the patriarchs of the families, Johnny’s grandmother and Anna’s grandfather, are still intently set on revenge,...
Paka (River of Blood) is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
“Paka” takes place in Kerala’s Wayanad hill country, a region which saw an influx of migrants from other parts of Kerala between the 1940s and 1970s — migrants who brought with them long-simmering grudges and tensions. In this region, Johnny and Anna, two youths from warring families, are about to get married. Expectedly, their marriage is kept under wraps, since Anna’s uncles are in no mood to bury the hatchet, while both of the patriarchs of the families, Johnny’s grandmother and Anna’s grandfather, are still intently set on revenge,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is informing film and television works around the world and Malayalam-language film “Hawk’s Muffin” (“Prappeda”) – selected in this week’s International Film Festival Rotterdam – uses it as a starting point, and adds elements of war to tell a surreal tale set in a dystopian future.
After his plane drops an atomic bomb, a pilot is ordered into hiding by his commanders. The location is an isolated estate where his life intertwines with his daughter, granddaughter, a bodyguard, a priest and a policeman. Things get complicated when the granddaughter befriends a stranger.
“Hawk’s Muffin” is the feature debut of Krishnendu Kalesh, known for his 2017 short satirical noir thriller “Black Beast” (“Karinchathan”), a response to the Charlie Hebdo attack.
“The pandemic is used only as an opportunity to start off a story of century-long conspiracy in the film. I conceived the pandemic period as an occasion...
After his plane drops an atomic bomb, a pilot is ordered into hiding by his commanders. The location is an isolated estate where his life intertwines with his daughter, granddaughter, a bodyguard, a priest and a policeman. Things get complicated when the granddaughter befriends a stranger.
“Hawk’s Muffin” is the feature debut of Krishnendu Kalesh, known for his 2017 short satirical noir thriller “Black Beast” (“Karinchathan”), a response to the Charlie Hebdo attack.
“The pandemic is used only as an opportunity to start off a story of century-long conspiracy in the film. I conceived the pandemic period as an occasion...
- 1/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
On the basis of filmmakers like Lijo Jose Pelliserry, Salim Ahmed, Jeetu Joseph, Dileesh Pothan, Geethu Mohandas, and Rajiv Ravi, the state of Kerala (of which the official language is Malayalam) has produced by and large India’s best output over the last decade. If the premiere of his film Paka (River of Blood) is any hint, we may end up adding sound-designer-turned-filmmaker Nithin Lukose to that illustrious list. His first venture into directing and writing has plenty of the religious, historically rooted elements and intra-family discords Kerala’s cinema has often explored, especially in the rural areas of its state.
Paka begins with a superimposition explaining a generations-deep feud between two families who migrated to the region’s hinterlands. Said feud was borne from a dispute over a woman and has lasted for decades, ending up in the killing of several prominent members of either family and their disposal into the Johnson River.
Paka begins with a superimposition explaining a generations-deep feud between two families who migrated to the region’s hinterlands. Said feud was borne from a dispute over a woman and has lasted for decades, ending up in the killing of several prominent members of either family and their disposal into the Johnson River.
- 9/16/2021
- by Soham Gadre
- The Film Stage
MollywoodThe film, directed by Kamal Km, has a bevy of talented actors including Dileesh Pothan, Unnimaya Prasad, Kani Kusruti and Prakash Raj.Tnm StaffSomething is brewing. Three men are walking briskly from different directions. There is tension in the air. You expect a poorly planned crime, maybe a kidnapping mission or a bank robbery or worse an explosion. That’s the kind of scary picture the teaser of the new Malayalam film Pada presents. Three talented actors – Joju George, Vinayakan and Kunchacko Boban – play these three men we just described. The film is written and directed by Kamal Km, who once made a well-appreciated movie called ID. Kamal is not a director to stop with three great actors, he has included in his film the talented Indrans, Dileesh Pothan, Prakash Raj, Unnimaya Prasad, Shine Tom Chacko, Salim Kumar, Kani Kusruti, Sajitha Madathil, Sudheer Karamana, Tg Ravi and a whole lot of other actors.
- 8/22/2021
- by Cris
- The News Minute
CinemaDirector Nithin Lukose is from Wayanad and says the story of the film is inspired by the tales he heard when growing up.Suresh NellikodeFacebook/Resul PookuttyWhen Nithin Lukose, an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, made up his mind finally to make a movie about the village he lives in with its rustic beauty and the mysteries it has hidden, he didn't have the faintest notion that it would get a renowned Bollywood filmmaker as its producer, and thereby make it to the Toronto International Film Festival- 2021. Nithin hails from a family in Ayilamoola, 8.5 km away from Mananthavady, Wayanad. His ancestors were settlers from Kaduthuruthy and Moolamattom of Central Kerala. The settlers had no option but to work very hard to prove their mettle. The farmers, who had been frequently and adversely impacted by human-animal conflict, infectious diseases like Malaria etc., had to stand up against...
- 8/3/2021
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
Production
“The Masked Talent,” a new format from Korea’s Mbc, creators of global hit “The Masked Singer,” is currently in production.
Unlike the celebrity-driven “The Masked Singer” and spin-off “The Masked Dancer,” where the focus is on who is behind the mask, “The Masked Talent” is a non-celebrity masked audition format concentrating on singing skills and talents. Two episodes, to be broadcast on the Mbc channel during the Chuseok Korean Thanksgiving holidays, invites the audience to participate.
“The purpose of the show is to present the audience with the unique experience to become the masked hero and perform their showmanship,” said Park Jeong-Kyu, chief producer of “The Masked Singer” and “The Masked Talent.” “With prejudice and bias out of the way, the contestants will be judged solely by their genuine voice and talent.”
The show was co-developed by Mbc and France’s Herve Hubert, the production house for the French “Mask Singer,...
“The Masked Talent,” a new format from Korea’s Mbc, creators of global hit “The Masked Singer,” is currently in production.
Unlike the celebrity-driven “The Masked Singer” and spin-off “The Masked Dancer,” where the focus is on who is behind the mask, “The Masked Talent” is a non-celebrity masked audition format concentrating on singing skills and talents. Two episodes, to be broadcast on the Mbc channel during the Chuseok Korean Thanksgiving holidays, invites the audience to participate.
“The purpose of the show is to present the audience with the unique experience to become the masked hero and perform their showmanship,” said Park Jeong-Kyu, chief producer of “The Masked Singer” and “The Masked Talent.” “With prejudice and bias out of the way, the contestants will be judged solely by their genuine voice and talent.”
The show was co-developed by Mbc and France’s Herve Hubert, the production house for the French “Mask Singer,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
MollywoodTovino and Ahaana play a young couple in love, with another story arc about a cop investigating a mysterious death.Sowmya RajendranIn last week's release And the Oskar Goes To, Tovino played a self-effacing filmmaker who is hesitant to assert himself, even to grab a plate of food. In Luca too, he's an artist - but of the temperamental, wildly impulsive sort. Despite the slew of films that the actor has signed in the recent past, he's managed to stay versatile without allowing viewer fatigue to set in. In Arun Bose's debut directorial (co-written with Mridul George), a slow-paced investigative thriller that admirably blends romance and mystery with a few hiccups, Tovino once again demonstrates his willingness to let the script be the hero. The first romantic duet in Luca, for instance, is not between Tovino and the female lead Ahaana Krishna, but a police officer and his former girlfriend.
- 6/29/2019
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
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