InterviewManu Uncle was so popular that 35 years later, people still recognise Kuriachan Chacko as the kid who played Lother in it. Kuriachan tells Tnm about his absence from films and his recent role in ‘Saudi Vellakka’.Still from Manu Uncle / Courtesy - Youtube / Central TalkiesLother is the kind of boy who would take his cousins to a restaurant – all of them pre-teens – and tell them, you can have anything you want, I have got 20 bucks with me. You have got to love him. People have not forgotten him even 35 long years after his first and only appearance in a film called Manu Uncle, a cosy, fun Malayalam children's movie of the late 80s. The kid playing this character grew older of course, but even now, people recognise him as Lother from Manu Uncle, though he made his second appearance in Saudi Vellakka, his first as a grownup, last year. Kuriachan...
- 5/27/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
DisabilityPeople with disabilities and their parents posted about how hurtful the scene had been and the State Disability Commission has sent the makers a notice.Tnm StaffPrithviraj in 'Kaduva'In the scenes following the introduction of actor Prithviraj’s character – Kuriachan – in Kaduva, you watch him cast a glance at the backseat of a car, and see a little boy with disability. He then asks Vivek Oberoi’s character Joseph Chandy, the father of the child, to step out of the car to have a talk. After first lauding him for his achievements, Kuriachan soon criticises Joseph for the ‘bad things’ he has done, telling him that that’s what his child was suffering for. Meaning, the disability of the child is a result of the parent’s wrong doings. Soon after the film’s release on Thursday, July 7, people with disabilities and their parents posted how hurtful the scene had been to them.
- 7/10/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
ReviewThe film is clearly written for the masses but with so many of these churned out in multiple Indian languages, there has to be more than the basic ingredients for the narrative to be exciting.CrisIn the 1990s, after he made a few films in varied genres, director Shaji Kailas had plunged straight into the heart of action cinema, where his heroes were unbreakable and no one else much mattered. Many years later when he got the script of Kaduva, Shaji took it back to a time he had thrived in, the 90s, and set it there. Prithviraj fell comfortably into the black shoes and white clothes of Kaduva Kuriachan, the newest of Shaji’s unbreakable heroes, living the life of a rich Pala businessman and estate owner, frequently getting into trouble. Back in the 90s, movies were not yet called ‘mass’ but Kaduva fits right in, written line by line,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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