When Nayan snubbed Allu Arjun on stage - Why Dulquer is happy in Tollywood ? Biju Menon in Tamil

SIMA Awards nominations list is out. This brings to mind a anecdote that was told by a veteran film scribe as we were watching on YouTube the MT anthology trailor launch function. We saw Ramesh Naryanan send Asif Ali back to his seat and instead accept the memento from Jayaraj who gave him the chance to score the music. My friend says that in 2018 SIMA awards, Allu Arjun was called on stage to present an award for Tamil Best actress in Naanum Rowdy Thaan. She came on stage and took the mike and said that if Allu has no objection, she would receive the award from her hubby Vihnesh as he is the Director. Why should Arjun object ? Fans tore Nayan apart in the social media. Coincidentally, both never worked together. I told my friend that what Ramesh got was only a memento and not an award. Years later Allu Arjun on X reviewed Jawan and commended Nayanthara and wrote - Nayanthara shines brightest on a national scale," She replies So sweet of You. Talking about awards, I remember when Ajith was invited to receive the Best Actor trophy. He said that he never attends and receives awards. He then started talking and found that one of the person who invited him was going to do a grihapravesh. The actor gave him a hefty sum.

Why is Dulquer Salman very contended doing non Malayalam films ?. At present, he has Telugu film Lucky Bhaskar directed by Venky Atluri and two films produced by Vyjayanthi Movies and Kaantha produced Atluri and two fil/ms produced by Vyjayanthi Movies and Kaantha produced by Rana Daggubatti. One interview that he gave during the time when he was doing the Hindi film Chuup directed by Balki coud explain this. “ In Malayalam Industry there is a section of the people who want to just identify me as son of Mammootty and nothing more. It is the secret agenda and they come to Chennai also to dub me as just son of Mammootty. I am proud to be son of Mammootty but I do not want to be always in his shadow. In other languages, I am getting good subjects with Pan Indian appeal and nobody sees me as just Mammootty’s son. They see me as Dulquer. I am not the person who wants to work in the filmdom using my family TAG “.

Malayalam actor Biju Menon is playing the baddie in Sivakarthikeyan film directed by A R Murugadoss. Many Producers of Malayalam films has been told that Biju dates are not available till November.

Lalaitham Sundaram : fit film for 50+ OTT audience

 Lalitham Sundaram ( Malayalam + dubbed in many languages on Disney Hotstar ) is a fare for those in their 60's and past it. As the title suggests there is lot of simplicity easiness and a laid back kind of story telling . The family reuniting after years and old worms dug open  plot has been told  before many times and quite of them have been blockbusters. Here Madhu Warrier as a debut director does account well and to his credit he delivers a good job. The flaw is in the time taken in narration. Quite a bit of time to go in to the sketching  of characters  and the last portion that   leads to the climax is quite over dramatic ( it looks straight out of a teary TV drama) are drawbacks. Biju Menon has done such roles before and so offers nothing new.

There are some beautiful human touches like Manju Warrier who is playing and teasing her brother turns serious as soon as she picks up a call from office , the character of Manju Warrier's hubby ( played by Saiju Kurup) is also different as usually it would have been a comic one of a henpecked hubby . Here he comes out as an all understanding life partner in all sense to his wife. The Live partner role of Deepti Sati and that of a old family friend Rajesh  should have had more screen space and more fleshing.   Wen Manju Warrier's hubby asks Rajesh who in childhood was in love with Manju as why it did not succeed . Rajesh says : She is a perfectionist and even in the case of selecting her husband. 

In short a film for people not in a hurry. On Disney Hotstar. ( dubbed in multiple languages)