Majority of us used to watch other language films. We can see many exciting thrillers in English. Final Destination series, Phonebooth, Italian Job etc are some examples. These films do not have a long story. But they have a tight screenplay and direction. Thus they make us thrilled till the end. There are some good thrillers in Hindi also… Humraaz, Naqaab etc.. There comes some inspired versions in tamil also. Recently made Pachaikili Muthucharam was inspired from Derailed.
But as far as malayalam is concerned, we have some suspense movies. CBI series and some films in the same category, that have a suspense in the climax. But they all are investigative stories. ‘4the people’ was a moderate thriller. Santhosh Sivan has made an attempt with Aparichithan, but the movie didnt reach upto mark. I dont think that we need a big budget for making a thriller in malayalam. If we consider the movie Phonebooth, we can see that around 80% of the film’s duration is only a single scene, in which the hero speaks from a phonebooth. Movies of such genre can be made in malayalam also with out spending much money. We can create our own scripts in malayalam other than adopting from other languages.
We should make exciting thrillers also for the prosperous future of malayalam cinema… We have vibrant youngsters like Prithviraj, Narain, Indrajith etc….. Only need appropriate screenplay and director.
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There should be more directors like Amal Neerad and more scriptwriters like A.K Sajan, only then we will get quality thrillers. Veteran directors are outdated and there’s absolutely no thrill watching their movies nowadays.
Nice Post. Yes, Malayalam films need more thriller stories. In Tamil, direcotrs like Vasanth have provided a few good thriller films.
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