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Flooded with cinema and entertainment options from across the globe through OTTs, the hyper-aware and savvy Indian audience has announced its verdict: The story is the winner, and the scriptwriter is the real hero. Films in the four south Indian languages are clearly acing this game with unconventional subjects, new narratives, innovative storytelling, and fresh [&hellip;]

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Scripting A New Chapter: Best Screenwriters In Southern Cinema

In a year when everybody needed a good laugh to weather the pandemic blues, the country’s nascent stand-up comedy industry rose to the challenge, even if it was more of sit-down comedy through digital rectangles. A month after the country first went into lockdown, unsure of what would happen to their beloved profession, stand-up comics [&hellip;]

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When Stand-Up Comedy Became Sit-Down Comedy

From kicking ass in all her roles to being unapologetically vocal about misogyny, discrimination, and everything no one else will talk about, Parvathy has the talent and the valour to do it all. An actor par excellence, a director in the making, a founder, a strong feminist voice, and overall force to reckon with, it’s [&hellip;]

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Women Of The Year 2020: Voice Of Reason Parvathy Thiruvothu

Meatier acting roles and the producer&#8217;s hat have given Nazriya Nazim a renewed sense of purpose in her career, and the effervescent Malayalam actor is charting a new course for herself. Grey is not a shade one would associate with the sunny Nazriya Nazim. But the cute, bubbly Malayalam actor makes one sit up and [&hellip;]

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Women Of The Year 2020: In Her Second Innings Nazriya Nazim

As Nivin Pauly completes a decade as an actor, he continues to bring a fresh burst of energy to every film he is in by constantly reinventing himself. Nivin Pauly knows how to reinvent himself. The Malayalam superstar burst on to the screen as the boy next door, and wooed the audience as a charming [&hellip;]

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Men Of The Year 2020: The Transformer Nivin Pauly

Be it appearing alongside stalwarts, or carrying a film on her own shoulders, Anna Ben has become an audience favourite in just a year. Anna Ben says she’s never herself on screen. “Kumbalangi Nights’ Baby Mol is who I closely relate to, in real life. But even then, it’s not completely me. I find it [&hellip;]