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Vinay and Sindhu are an ideal couple as they love each other a lot. Vinay takes up a job as a Malayalam teacher in a public school and teaches with a motive to instill values in his students... Read all Vinay and Sindhu are an ideal couple as they love each other a lot. Vinay takes up a job as a Malayalam teacher in a public school and teaches with a motive to instill values in his students. Vinay and Sindhu are an ideal couple as they love each other a lot. Vinay takes up a job as a Malayalam teacher in a public school and teaches with a motive to instill values in his students.

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Life is beautiful, ലൈഫ് ഈസ്‌ ബ്യൂട്ടിഫുൾ.

Directed by Fazil

Vinayachandran and Sindhu are an ideal couple, who are so fond of each other that the greatest thing that they love, according to their neighbours Nambiarettan and Shoshammetathi. Vinayan has just joined a reputed public school as a teacher of Malayalam. The fact that he wants to teach Malayalam is projected as a politically correct stand, which Vinayan promptly starts elaborating with his unconventional ways of teaching.

Mohanlal Samyuktha Varma Geethu Mohandas Innocent KPAC Lalitha Rizabawa Saikumar Nedumudi Venu Reena Saritha Mithun Ramesh Ponnamma Babu Arun

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How bad can a remake be? Fazil : hold my beer

Don't know whether to call it a remake, it's like Dead Poets Society with some family issues for Mr. Keating.

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Synopsis/Plot : Life Is Beautiful is a Malayalam language drama film directed by Fazil and starring Mohanlal, Samyuktha Varma and Geetu Mohandas. The film is a Malayalam adaptation of the 1989 American film Dead Poets Society.

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Beautiful life.

If girls and friends are available 24/7 (within a range of a few centimeters!), life would be beautiful for anyone.Life is always beautiful for Kammula's characters but for the rest of us, there is the beautiful Anjala Zaveri. Don]t miss her. (more)

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Life Is Beautiful Malayalam 2000 Movie Review and Rating

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• August 15, 2020 August 29, 2021

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Mohanlal , Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas, Innocent, K.P.A.C. Lalitha, Nedumudi Venu, Rizabawa, Saikumar, Saritha, Arun, Ponnamma Babu, Mithun Ramesh

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‘Life Is Beautiful’ Review: An Upbeat Self-Portrait of a Palestinian Stranded in the Far North

Gaza City native Mohamed Jabaly’s unexpected long exile in Norway provides an ingratiating seriocomic diversion from grave current events in his homeland.

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Unfortunately, while Mohamed is enjoying his first taste of Europe, things back home have taken a turn. Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, “the only gateway between Palestinians and the rest of the world,” has long been problematic and frequently shut. But now it closes seemingly for good, barring our protagonist’s return. 

Jabaly appears to be much-liked in Tromso and beyond, his plight covered by local media, while colleagues protest his bureaucratic mistreatment. But the depth of any new relationships forged goes unmeasured in a film that prefers to focus exclusively on our antic, personable protagonist’s efforts to go home and/or stay put. (He has no alternative plan, though at one point he’s briefly driven to London, options in Norway having temporarily expired.) His narration is framed as a letter to his badly-missed mother. Yet we get little insight into the family and friends left behind, either, despite home movies and other mementoes scattered throughout. 

Late in the going here, circumstances change once again. The director is finally allowed a Gaza City return — though by then he’s already decided he’ll continue pursuing the academic and professional paths opened to him in his Scandinavian “second home.” Unsurprisingly perhaps, yet infuriatingly, this much-delayed homecoming is stalled further by long hours of official detainment and questioning, provoking the only expressions of rage we see from Jabaly. It’s almost the sole moment here, apart from some footage from “Ambulance,” when the bitter realities of a Palestinian identity are pushed into the foreground. 

The lack of more such ballasting and contextualizing material makes “Life Is Beautiful” a bit superficial — even when the stressful uncertainty of his status eventually stirs depression, Jabaly’s film doesn’t dig deep enough to be as potent as it might be. Of course, he may simply be an unusually adaptable person as well-suited as anyone could be to circumstances that might traumatize another. He certainly is ingratiating, even if after a while you might wish his movie aimed less to please than toward greater insight. 

Please it does, however, with the diaristic elements of hand-held camera or Zoom calls balanced out by some very handsome views of spectacular landscapes and skies in Northern Norway. The outdoor temperatures may be Arctic, but the welcoming indoor temperament as painted by a stranded stranger here is downright toasty. 

Reviewed at IDFA (online), Nov. 11. Running time: 92 MIN. (Original title: “Al Haya Helwa”) 

• Production: (Norway-Palestine – Documentary) A Stray Dogs Norway production, in co-production with Jabali Film, Al Jazeera. (World sales: First Hand Films, Zurich.) Producers: KriStine Ann Skaret, Sarah Winge-Sorensen. Co-producers: Mohamed Jabaly, Anad Abdelwahab, Muhammad Refaat. Executive producers: Mohanad Yaqubi, Esther Van Messel, Anne Fabini. 
• Crew: Director: Mohamed Jabaly. Camera: Jabaly. Editor: Erland Edenholm. Music: Gaute Barlindhaug. 
• With: Mohamed Jabaly. (English, Arabic, Norwegian dialogue)

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Beautiful Malayalam Movie

V K Prakash's 'Beautiful' is a slickly conceptualized film, which is more of an evocation of the human desire dynamics at work. The brilliant visual composition and the thematic rumination that it offers makes 'Beautiful' live up to its title in all possible ways.

Stephen (Jayasurya), a multimillionaire who has lived his entire life on a wheel chair, strikes up an uncharacteristic camaraderie with a hotel singer John (Anoop Menon). The two get along like a house on fire, and when Anjaly (Meghna Raj) arrives as the new maid, the two men find themselves falling hopelessly in love with her.

Menon's script is a no-nonsense one, and has the traits of a psychosexual drama written all over it, before it finally ventures into a Hitchcockian realm albeit for a very brief while. It also can easily claim to have some of the best one-liners in recent Malayalam cinema, and with this magical combination, turns out to be an intelligent film that works on multiple levels.

It's only amusedly that you can listen to Kamalu's (Nandu) take on beauty and the human perception of it, and when he exhorts you to think Aishwarya Rai struggling with stomach issues, you realize for the umpteenth time probably that a belle with a belly in distress could ruin it all and wonder if beauty is after all only stomach deep!

And yet, when Anjaly walks in a few minutes later, dripping wet in the rain, it's impossible for us not to be awestruck along with Stephen and John, by her curves. The droplets that simply refuse to let go of her waist seem to share our sentiments as well. This is the sheer electricity of male longing at work that merely fortifies with each feeble attempt to refute it.

For a change, the women in 'Beautiful' are aware of something called desire, unlike the archetypal Malayali film heroine. There is this much-married doctor (Praveena), who admits that marriage is after all a 'license to start an extra-marital affair', and who confesses that she meets up with her lover once or twice a year to keep the spirit up and going. The reason why they didn't end up being married, was simply because they didn't want to ruin all that love.

There is the housemaid Kanyaka (Tesni Khan) as well, who puts in an extra bit of effort when she settles down to trim Stephen's unruly beard. She has lost claim to her name, after she was physically abused, memories of which she brushes aside with a smirk. She even whispers to Stephen that Kamalu has been making advances on her, and when quizzed as to why she didn't care to respond, comes up with a remark that's nothing short of a holler.

And ofcourse, there is Anjaly herself, who with her sheer presence takes carnality to new heights. She is no seductress, which is to mean that there is no deliberation on her part to lure the men, but her being is reason enough to charge up the dimly lit rooms of Stephen's abode with an erotic magnetism; like in the scene, when she walks into Stephen's washroom to take a bath, and the resonance of the running water becomes almost agonizing to the two men outside.

There are a number of well written scenes in the film, and though it would be difficult to list them all out here, a few do stand apart. John, having been rejected in love, spends a night in drunken stupor, and on waking up finds his fellow singer (Aparna), who is madly in love with him, picking up the past night's leftovers. He looks at her for a while, and admits that he finally realizes the anguish of being spurned. Equally adorable is another scene, when an overtly flirtatious Stephen attempts to make Anjaly uncomfortable, by quizzing her on the complex process of wearing a sari. When she retorts by asking him if his mom has never worn a sari, the grin that spreads on Stephen's face is infectious.

There are two other men who deserve a special mention as well. There is Jomon T John, whose cinematography is, let me utter it out, as sexy as it gets. The dampness of the ambience and the forever falling rain, those fantastically lit interiors and the subtle nuances of expressions - almost everything looks stunning thanks to Jomon. Ratheesh Vegha is at it with a vengeance again, and the sound track of the film is truly out of this world, with 'Mazhaneer Thullikal' reverberating in your ears for a long, long time.

And who could forget the overwhelming performances of both Jayasurya and Anoop Menon, who seem to have well realized that this is a masterful, and perhaps even a bit of a cunning script that they have landed up with. The actors have hence given it their best shot, and the results are there to see. And perhaps there wouldn't be any other actor who could play Anjaly the way Meghna has. The enticing charm and sexiness that the actor exudes in a deglamorized avatar, and the spontaneity in her portrayal have contributed immensely to the hypnotic quality of this work.

I'm so glad that V K Prakash has finally got his due, and with the right script in his hands has crafted out sheer poetry on screen with 'Beautiful'. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but it is without doubt, one of the most absorbing Malayalam films that I have seen this year.

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Shreya Ghoshal shares beautiful family pics on son Devyaan's 3rd birthday

Shreya ghoshal wished her son devyaan on his third birthday. she posted beautiful family photos with her toddler and husband, shiladitya mukhopadhyaya..

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• Shreya Ghoshal got married to Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya in 2015

Shreya Ghoshal wished her son Devyaan on his third birthday by posting beautiful family photos on Instagram. Shreya, who often shares photos of her toddler on social media, also posted a cute birthday wish for him. The photo also had her husband, Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya.

Shreya Ghoshal's birthday wish for her son Devyaan, read: "Happy birthday to our little Devyaan Time’s flying, you are 3 already!!! God bless you Shona. Thank you for coming in our lives and filling our hearts with so much love and gratitude (sic)."

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In March, Shreya Ghoshal was joined by her son on the stage during a live performance on the occasion of her birthday. A visibly coy Devyaan was seen cradled in his mother's arms.

Shreya shared a note about it. It can be read, "Thank you all for your blessings and love. Birthday was made so extra special by each and everyone of you. Starting from the surprise on stage in Singapore where Devyaan (for the first time ever in front of an audience) and Shiladitya joined me on stage to cut the cake with the whole audience singing with Kinjal, the band, the organisers and my team (sic)."