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Producer VMC Noushad’s choices for Internet Movie Awards

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:59:10 +0000

VMC Noushad is a popular malayalam movie producer and the brother of poluar malayal comedy actor Cochin Haneefa. His nominations are listed below.

Best Movies

Thirakkatha
Cycle

Best Actor

Mammootty

Best Actress

Priyamani

Best Music

Rahul Raj (Annan Thampi, Mayabazar, Crazy Gopalan)

Director Thomas Sebastian’s choices for Internet Movie Awards

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:56:57 +0000

Thomas Sebastian is the director of last year released movie Mayabazaar. His nominations are listed below.

Best Movie

Thirakatha
Calcutta News,
Veruthe Oru Bharya

Best Actor

Mohanlal

Best Actress

Priyamani

Best Music

Rahul Raj
Debjyothi Mishra

Designer Collins Leophill’s choices for Internet Movie Awards

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:52:40 +0000

Collins Leophill is one of the most popular designers of malayalam cinema now. His choices for the various categories are listed below.

Best movie

Twenty 20
Calcutta News

Best Actor

Mohanlal

Best Actress

Priyamani

Best Music

Rahul Raj (Annan Thampi, Mayabazar, Crazy Gopalan)

Director Vinod Vijayan’s nominations for Internet Movie Awards

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:46:56 +0000

Vinod Vijayan is the director of movies like Quotation and Red Salute. His choices for various categories are listed below.

Best Movies

Annan Thampi
Thirakkatha
Cycle

Best Actor

Mammootty

Best Actress

Priyamani

Best Music

Rahul Raj (Annan Thampi, Mayabazar, Crazy Gopalan)

Director Deepu Karunakaran’s choices of Best Movies of 2008

admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:48:30 +0000

Deepu Karunakaran is the director of the recently released Dileep movie Crazy Gopalan. The following are his choices for best films of 2008.

Culcutta News
Cycle
Pachamarathanalil
Madambi
Veruthe Oru Bharya
Thalappavu
Gulmohar
Kurukshetra
Rathrimazha
Pakal Nakshathrangal
Twenty 20

Director Uday Ananthan’s choice for Best Movies 2008

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:57:08 +0000

Uday Ananthan is the director of the movie Pranayakalam. The following are his list of nominations.

Best Actor

No Nominations

Best Actress

Priyamani (Thirakkatha)

Best Film

Thirakkatha

Best Director

Blessy (Calcutta News)

Writer Sanjay’s choice for Best Movies of 2008

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:41:21 +0000

Sanjay is one of the most promising young writers in Malayalam cinema. He started his career along with his brother Bobby by scripting a TV serial named Avasthantharangal which won the state awards including best serial, screenplay, director etc. Afterwards, Bobby Sanjay team wrote scripts for movies like Ente Veedu Appoontem and Notebook. Now Bobby Sanjay duo is doing the script work of their new film Casanova, which will be directed by Roshan Andrews with Mohanlal in the lead.

Best Films

Thirakkatha
Pakalnakshatrangal
Thalappavu

Ranjini Haridas’ choice of Best Films of 2008

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:30:18 +0000

Ranjini Haridas, Miss Kerala 2000 and the host of popular reality show Idea Star Singer, has sent us her suggestions

Best Films

Twenty 20
Thirakkadha
Adayalangal

Best Director

Joshiy (Twenty 20)
Ranjith (Thirakkadha)
M G Sasi (Adayalangal)

Best Actor

Mohanlal

Best Actress

Priyamani (Thirakkadha)

Best Music Director

Sarath (Thirakkadha)
Vidyasagar (Mulla)

Best Singer Male

Dr K J Yesudas
Madhu Balakrishnan
Shankar Mahadevan (Thirakkadha)

Best Singer Female

Gayathri Asokan
Shwetha Mohan
K.S.Chitra
Rimi Tomi

Writer Joshua Netwon’s choices of the Best Films of 2008

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:26:29 +0000

Joshua Newtonn is an international award-winning journalist based in Kochi. His first original screenplay ‘Ritu ‘, is to be filmed by Shyamaprasad early this year. He blogs at www.joshcafe.com

T he list of films of 2008 is the worst package of Malayalam films I’ve come across in one bunch. Handpicked here are five (couldn’t go for more without feeling ashamed) films, which were relatively less pretentious films, in terms of both aesthetic and commercial aims.

- Joshua Netwonn

Thirakkatha - Renjith
Gulmohar - Jayaraj
Cycle - Johnny Antony
Swarnam - Venugopan
Malabar Wedding - Rajesh, Faizal

Joseph Thomas’ choices in the Music Category

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:15:10 +0000

Joseph Thomas (known as Jo in the blogging world) is a blogger, singer, composer and podcaster. A goldsmith-turned-techie, who hails from Thrissur is now working as a Web Designer in an MNC in the capital city of Kerala. Jo has founded Blogswara, an internet platform for amateur musicians. Blogswara produces internet music albums which are freely available to listen and download original music created by amateur as well as professional musicians. So far it has released 5 albums as of December 2008. You can cath Jo at his blog.

Best Music Director

Debjyothi Misra (Calcutta News)

Sreevalsan J Menon (Laptop)

Sarath (Thirakkatha)

Vidyasagar (Mulla)

Bijibal (Minnaminni koottam)

Best Singer Male

Yesudas (Madambi)

Madhu Balakrishnan (Calcutta News, Thirakkatha)

Sreevalsan J Menon (Laptop)

Amal Antony (Laptop)

Nishad (Thirakkatha)

Best Singer Female

K S Chitra (Calcutta News)

Gayatri Asokan (Mulla)

Swetha Mohan (Thirakkatha)

Rimi Tomy (Mulla)

Best Lyrics

Rafiq Ahmad (Laptop, Thirakkatha)

ONV (Mizhikal Sakshi)

Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma (Mulla)

Anil Panachooran (Minnaminni koottam)