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)
Pradip Somasundaran is a playback singer and a lecturer in Electronics from Kerala. You can visit his
blog. He also composes music and is a member of the online musical venture Blogswara.
Best Music Director
- M.Jayachandran
- Bijibal
- Alex Paul
- Vidyasagar
- Srivalson J Menon
Best Singer Male
- K.J Yesudas
- M.G Sreekumar
- Vineeth Sreenivasan
- Srivalson J Menon
- Madhu Balakrishnan
Best Singer Female
- K.S Chitra
- Swetha Mohan
- Gayatri Asokan
- Manjari
- Rimi Tomi
Best Lyrics
- Anil Panachuraan
- Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma
- Gireesh Puthencherry
Rohini Mariam Idicula was selected as the Miss Kerala 2007,by Hair O Max. When asked about her opinion, she gave us this following list. Follow her on her blog.
- Veruthe Oru Bharya
- Adayalangal
- Thirakkatha
- Twenty 20
Madhupal is the director of the critically aclaimed movie Thalppavu. Recently, he won the Film Critics award for Best Director. Thalappavu also bagged Film Critics awards for best movie and best script.
We had a chance to meet director Madhupal lately and we got his choices for the best films of 2008. Here are his choices
- Calcutta News
- Mulla
- Innathe Chinthavishayam
- Pacha marathanalil
- Mizhikal Sakshi
- Veruthe Oru Bharya
- Thalappavu
- Thirakkatha
- Adayalangal
- Rathrimazha
- Gulmohar
- Kurukshethra
Finally, it is here. For the first time in the history of Malayalam films, internet awards are being instituted. The basic concept of the awards is simple. Each awards category will have a set of nominations. Winner in each category will be selected via online polling. Everyone with an email address can vote.
With internet revolution taking place, it is high time that movie awards be decided by the internet user base. You could call it ‘Power To The People’. The whole process of awards (nominations, voting and declaration) will be done online.
Nomination procedure has already begun for various categories and will be put to poll on Feb 1, 2009. All nominations are made by expert suggestions of eminent people in the film industry together with the suggestions of movie buffs in the blogosphere. The polling period spans 28 days, till Feb 28. Once polling is closed, the votes are tallied and the winners will be announced sometime in March.
We consider this as the next step in introducing the Malayalam Film Industry to the World Wide Web.
More details regarding the awards, nomination and awards categories will be announced soon.
