Monday Malayalam: Kilukkam, a Happy Malayalam Movie!!!! How is This Possible?????

I can’t believe it!!!!  An actual happy Malayalam film!  Or maybe I have just been worn down in my definition of “happy”, so that it now expands to accept illegitimate children, forced commitments to insane asylums, kidnapping, sibling murder, and so on.  But hey, it doesn’t end with the heroine being raped and/or the hero being arrested, or a sad song in the rain, so HAPPY. (you understand I kid because I love, right?  Malayalam movies are beautiful and brilliant but MAN can they be depressing sometimes!)

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Ustadh Hotel: Second watch, First Review, Boy I Missed a Lot the First Time Around!

Ustad Hotel was like the second Malayalam film I saw.  First Bangalore Days, then Ustad Hotel, then Ohm Shaanti Oshana.  At the time I saw it first, I had nooooooooooo idea what was going on for long stretches of the film.  But now I have seen like 30 Malayalam films in 6 months, so I know everything!

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