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Mammooty plays Bilal, the prodigal son, and does complete justice to the character, holding the film together. The four siblings live away from home, and it's her brutal murder that gets them back together. One of Malayalam cinema's spectacular action-thriller flicks, Big B tells the story of a mother (Nafisa Ali) who is a social worker, who raised her four adopted sons as her own. If you're open to watching regional movies or are a Malayali who wants to watch more Malayalam movies, then you should totally add these 32 gems from the last decade to your must-watch list:
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Films like 22 Female Kottayam and Drishyam have paved way for a larger audience and a much better film experience. Especially in the last decade, Malayalam cinema has seen some very exceptional movies. However, slowly and steadily, Malayalam cinema is breaking the mould it was set in and lately, it has been churning out movies that are not only great, but also have world-class appeal. While there's no denying the fact that such movies do exist, doesn't every film industry have some of those? After all, even Bollywood has its fair share of Flying Jatts. These hiccups notwithstanding, when I look back, it was fun.For way too long, Malayalam movies have earned a bad rep for being over-the-top and unrealistic. The video library owner would disregard our pleas to return the fee as he would point out the 'Disclaimer' in dictionary print pasted on the jacket of the video cassette! The press discussed the VCR “and the viewing habits it has engendered - the Saturday night trip down to the tape rental store to pick out for a couple of bucks the movie you want to see when you want to see it”.Īaaaah! The good ole days of the clunky video cassettes! Back then, it had been nothing short of a marvel! An entire movie compressed onto a tape, enclosed in a box smaller than a tiffin box! As the popularity of the video cassettes and the VCRs grew, video cassette libraries began mushrooming all over town! In the city in South India I had lived back then, we had video libraries sprouting every day! We were offered a feast of movies in English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil!Īs the video cassettes became part of our lives, there appeared attendant problems fungus on the tape! Not only were the movies impossible to watch, the fungus would be deposited on the VCRs! Very often, the cassette would've been watch by so many people with VCRs of dubious qualities that the movies were just a vague moving blur an dialogues would be unintelligible sounds. Groceries rented tapes for as little as $0.49 as loss leaders.
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Soon enough, America became littered with video shops, both independent and chain stores.īlockbuster became the most successful of its kind as it “operated like a contemporaneous movie theater, with ‘New Releases’ dominating and ‘opening weekends’ driving customers into the store.”īy May 1988 the number of video specialty stores was estimated to be 25,000, in addition to 45,000 other outlets that also offered video rentals. The 1970s were nothing if not a decade of convenience, and the video cassette was certainly that.Īt first, the market was growing slowly because video cassettes were not affordable however, when the prices dropped in the mid-80s, the market thrived and revenue for home video superseded theatrical box office. The first VCRs hit the market in 1975, and shortly thereafter the video rental store boom began.Įxtraordinary to think that spools of magnetic tape, easily eroded and prone to tangling, were the medium of choice. 1986.īefore video stores, movies were solely watched in theaters, leaving studios hesitant to embrace video technology and video stores because they feared for losses in revenues. Employee Tammy Swier looks at VCR cassettes tapes at Colfax Video.