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Priyadarshan wrote Mohanlal's superhit tragicomedy in 10 days after favourite writer stormed out: 'Won't work together again until you take cinema seriously'

January 06, 2026 7:25 am

If there's any other person who has played just as significant a role in Priyadarshan's cinematic and artistic life as Mohanlal, it was a legendary actor-filmmaker.

Rajinikanth's lost love, the woman whose Rs 500 gave wings to his acting dreams: 'She vanished one day'

January 02, 2026 6:50 am

Rajinikanth left Bengaluru with the Rs 500 she had given him, actor Devan once stated that, upon noticing no contact from Nirmala, he rushed back, looking for her. However, her house was locked and no one knew where she had gone.

Sreenivasan taught Malayalam cinema how to laugh at itself — and gave audiences the courage to be ordinary

December 29, 2025 2:05 pm

He used humour with rare intelligence to hold up a mirror to the educated Malayali and his hypocrisies

Sreenivasan nudged Malayalis to look at themselves, and laugh

December 23, 2025 7:51 am

The actor-writer-director, 69, who died last week, combined his rapier wit and astuteness with remarkable productivity, writing and acting in over 200 films

How Sreenivasan turned the middle-class Malayali’s insecurities into immortal characters

December 29, 2025 12:50 pm

Each time a middle-class Malayali dares to dream beyond their means, Vijayan from ‘Nadodikkattu’ seems to whisper, ‘Ethra manoharamaaya nadakkaatha aachaarangal (what beautiful, unrealistic dreams)’, a line that gently mocks, yet deeply empathises with, the beauty of impossible aspirations

Prithviraj's wife Supriya slams media coverage of Sreenivasan's funeral: 'Don't the dead, living deserve better?'

December 22, 2025 4:29 pm

Supriya Menon slams the manner in which Sreenivasan's funeral and the visuals of his bereaved family members were filmed, which she felt was tasteless.

Veteran Malayalam actor-screenwriter Sreenivasan laid to rest

December 21, 2025 6:19 pm

Sreenivasan passed away on Saturday at the age of 69, leaving the Malayalam film industry in deep grief.

Even Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan couldn't recreate the magic Sreenivasan once achieved in Malayalam with Mammootty

December 21, 2025 4:06 pm

Even though these movies were helmed by the most prolific filmmakers in both industries, they failed to replicate the success of the Malayalam original, written by Sreenivasan.

When Sreenivasan first met 'fat, limping' Mohanlal and heard his acting dream: 'What a fool!'

December 21, 2025 12:03 pm

Sreenivasan once shared that he first felt Mohanlal was making a mistake by pursuing an acting career without any formal training.

'With Rs 400 from a Christian and money given by Muslim Mammootty, I tied a golden tali around my Hindu wife': Sreenivasan on his marriage

December 21, 2025 10:28 am

Sreenivasan tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Vimala, in 1984, when he had yet to find his footing in the industry, let alone achieve financial security.

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