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So channel we've seen a couple from him. You'll recognize him. He's that gentleman right there. Yeah, makes really good content. Obviously, go check him out. Put the link in the description below. But this is most underrated, misunderstood Malia movies that deserve more love. Okay. Hopefully, because of some ideas to watch some more Malia movies. Yes, I haven't seen before. Yes, yes, yes. So if there are some in here that we should watch, please let us know. If there's others that weren't in here that we should watch, please let us know in the comments below as well. Yep. Always down to explore more Malayalam movies because that is a very good industry. In the last 10 years, everyone seems to have suddenly woken up to the magic of Malayalam cinema, an industry that's been producing absolute masterpieces since decades, but within these masterpieces. Wow. He's right. No, I wish we hadn't heard more. There are many underrated, misunderstood, commercially unsuccessful gems that didn't get the love that they deserved when they released. And that's what today's video is about. But before we start with the list, few weeks back, I did a giveaway collab with Nokia and the winners of that giveaway will be getting a 500 rupees worth gift watcher from Fully Filmy and to the rest of you who could not participate that time, I'm going to tell you how you can win the giveaway in just a little bit. But first, let's start with the list. Today, Padma Rajan's Tuvana Tumbigal is one of Malayalam cinema's greatest cult classics. We've seen that in the years. We have seen that. So how progressive it was. How unafraid it was to show its protagonists. A flawed man leading a double life of a pure family man in his village and a playboy in the city. A double life that flowed into his relationships as well. Falling in love with two women, with one of them being a sex worker. Dealing with such themes and characters can go in any direction with other filmmakers. But Padma Rajan's deep understanding of human relationships and emotions, his novelistic approach to filmmaking and the sensitive, non-judgmental lens that he applies to the world of his films, makes Tuvana Tumbigal one of the most romantic movies ever made. The way he uses rain as a character and makes its appearance at particular points in the relationship between Jaya Krishnan and Clara which is elevated by Johnson's iconic BGM. For today's audience, it's usually difficult to watch an older film because of the heightened melodrama or the dated ideologies of the time. But this film is a vibe. Iblis. I don't know why, but fantasy as a genre is not very much explored in India cinema. Especially considering how many stories we have in our mythology. What is life? What's the right way to live it? How to perceive death and especially life after death? Every culture has its own interpretation of life after death and the world of Iblis has its own set of answers that will actually make you wonder, look at things that are happening around you and ask yourself, are these just coincidences or random events or is someone from the beyond actually trying to communicate with me? If all the childish energy, curiosity and innocence that you used to have could be taken and stored inside a jar of sweets, that jar is Iblis. Unbelievable that Rohit V.S. is the same guy who made this film and also Kala, which is so different in terms of themes, style, treatment and perspective of the world. Love. This film might be triggering, disturbing, the black humor may not work for everyone and the way the film progresses might even confuse you. But personally, once in a while, I like to watch films which can actually mess with my mind. After seeing that... I love that movie, Rick did not like that movie. I had no idea what I was going in for and half an hour into it, it started feeling less like a film and started playing out more like a video game, featuring a married couple, stuck in the situation and all the choices that lie ahead to get out of it. Imagine taking Sriram Raghavan, David Fincher, Jagarajan Kumar Raja, Anurag Kashyap and Ram Gopal Varma. Put them in a mixie, blend it all up and serve it as a dish. That is love. I know it sounds messy and it is, but in a good way. Probably, Shine Tom Chaco's best role yet and another unique film in Khalid Rahman's versatile filmography that includes Unda and Talumala. But even as I recommend this film, I have to give you a trigger warning. This movie is not for everyone. But something I can definitely recommend for everyone is... That was the same director as Ballad of Brawl? An app that solves the problem of what to watch next for you and your family. I didn't make that connection. Yeah, that's... Yeah, that's Ballad of Brawl. 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Take a screenshot of your profile with at least 10 friends on it and then you can either... I don't have 10 friends. Or you can just start DM it and the first 30 people... Shouldn't this have been at the end of the video? 300 rupees worth gift watcher from Fully Filmed. If you put ads in the middle, people are more likely to watch it because it's in the middle of the video. And also take recommendations from... So if you're a true cinephile, don't forget to follow me there. Because if it's at the end, they'll be like, I'm just switching off. Let's get back to the list. But I just switched off too. Even though in terms of plot, there's absolutely no connection. I've heard a lot about this movie actually. In terms of how it makes a Kutubarotta of so many different genres and also your brain. Over the last couple of years, I've had so many different people suggest this film to me without telling me what it's actually about. And when I started it, after seeing the first five minutes, I was confused whether this is a movie or some random documentary that I clicked on. But thankfully, I didn't stop it because... Oh my God. Let's leave Malayalam cinema. This is one of the weirdest, most uniquely structured and produced films I've seen across any language. To pull off what director Krishan did, you don't just need guts. You need a certain kind of madness, a non-judgmental love for different genres of cinema, comic books, and every form of storytelling, unbelievable clarity and vision of your final product, an original sense of humor, and genuine love for the world that we live in. I don't want to say it, trust me, bro. But seriously, trust me, bro. Cross the first five, 10 minutes. Watch this film completely and tell me. Did it blow your mind or did it blow your mind? Artist. Even though Fad Fasil won the Kerala State Award for this film... The early Fad Fasil. Personally, I feel that in the first half of this film, his performance as Michael Agnello, his purest, passionate artist, is still a little rough around the edges. But beyond that, this film belongs to its female protagonist, Gayatri, played by Ann Augustine, who also won the Kerala State Award that year. Struggling and sacrificing a lot of things to follow your own passion is one thing. But to give up a life that you could have had for the sake of someone else, for your partner to follow his passion, that's true sacrifice. Artist is a film without any big moments or big reveals, but the way that Michael and Gayu's relationship is captured in such a simple yet intense way is what really kept me hooked until the very end. You'll feel like punching Fad Fasil's character for being such an asshole to Gayu, a woman who left everything behind for him and maybe you've seen such people around you in your real life. The next three films are all partly or fully set in prison. The first two are Boodha Kannadi and Sadeham. Instead of telling you their story, I'll tell you what these two films have in common. Both films have been written by two of Malayalam cinema's most iconic screenwriters, Loetada's and empty Vasudevan Nair. And you'll feel like both films have a very strong novel-like feel to them, unfolding non-linearly in chapters. Both are about imprisoned men, fully aware and guilt-free of the crime that they've committed, with performances by Mammootty and Mohanlal that will haunt you for days. Both men are people who are completely untreated by everything that's going wrong with the world and how the same society is so careless and indifferent to what's happening around them. Both films will shock you at the end like someone punched you in your gut. And both of them failed initially at the box office, but today have become gut classics. The third is Madhulagal, directed by the legend Adur Gopala Krishnan who creates this world within the walls of a prison without any fancy camera work, without any flashbacks and still manages to hook you with just a superb character played by an actor who's at the top of his game, giving a performance that won him a national award that year. Vashir's equation with the jailers, the other inmates, the roses in his garden, the woman on the other side of the wall whom he falls in love with without ever having to see her face and above everything else. His ideologies that he expresses with a smile on his face while hiding so much pain inside. What a journey into the mind of a man who will make you smile well up with tears, affect your own ideologies and change your idea of what freedom really means. Nyan Steve Lopez. Between his debut romantic film, Anayum Rasoolam and the powerful Kamati Padam, Rajiv Ravi made this small, unassuming film that starts off as a stress-free, feel-good-coming-awaits-drama and then boom, escalates the film onto a whole new plane. Even though things get a little dark in the film especially in the second half, there's an overall muted and lazy energy to the film but at the same time, a lazy energy hooks you to this curious character called Steve who is just like any one of us with all his flaws. But beneath all that is a good heart that's probably too good for this one. Yes, good eyes. His way for thin but how Rajiv Ravi decides to make it come alive visually. Considering his expertise as a cinematographer is what makes this film so much. What the freak lens was that? The best example of that aspect is that one phone conversation that happens between Steve and his crush Anjali. What a unique way to show a type of scene that's been done to death over so many decades of cinema. And finally, Big B. Shout out to Vishal Menon from Film Company and for hyping this film so much for me and getting me to watch it and even though today it might seem a bit dated, I can understand why Vishal and fans like Vishal would have loved it so much when it came out back in 2007. A few minutes into the film because of the unique lighting and camera angles which I hadn't seen personally in Malalan films from that time, I saw a strong influence of peak Ram Gopal Varma from the late 90s and early 2000s and wondered if there's any connection between the filmmaker Amal Neerad and Ram Gopal Varma and indeed, there is. Before getting into films, Amal Neerad started his career as a cinematographer of documentaries, music videos and ads and his diploma film somehow caught the attention of Ram Gopal Varma who's a man who is known for constantly looking out for fresh talent. And before you know it, Amal shot three films for RGV and during that process maybe absorbed a lot of his style which you can so clearly see in Big B. Beyond the story of 2004 film Four Brothers that it's inspired from the way this film is shot and how it showed Mamoti in a brand new light is what makes this film so underrated today. It was an average performer at the box office initially when it released but today it's one of those movies that started a new chapter in Malalum cinema in terms of making and style. Everyone has their own definition of the word underrated so I'd love to know what are your favorite Malalum films that you think are underrated in the comments and if you love Malalum cinema which I think you do, you should check out my other videos that I've made around Malalum cinema. Don't forget to download NoQ and participate in the giveaway and for now, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Woo! I like his format. I do too. All of those. Yeah. Very interesting, I think we had seen two of them. Are any of the ones that were recommended here ones you've heard before from Superbabies? Yeah, lots. By the way, if you've recommended them to me I only respond to personal messages because I don't want to have spoilers with anything at all. The predominant place I want to be exposed to anything in Indian cinema for the first time is here. So. Sorry, what you looking for? I'm trying to find the movie of... To see if it's Battle of the Brawls. Well, the same director. Yeah. Oh, there we go. Maybe that'll be easier, T-H-A-L-L-U. There it is. He did. Wow. Okay. So yeah, you like that director a lot. I really like that director. I did too. I didn't like Love the way Corbin did. Nowhere, Nia, because I loved Love. You do not like Love. But you did like Battle of the Brawls. Oh. Very much. That's what we call it, because I can't pronounce it. Yeah, because we can't pronounce what it is. We call it by that. But what else has he directed? What was the other thing? Was it Unda? I feel like I've heard of Unda. Is that his other directorial? Is that have Mamoudi? Mamoudi, yeah. And then Shine Tom Chaco. Is Subin in it? No, not seeing Subin. Anyways, I did not know Love and that one was the same director. So that's interesting. Yeah, a lot of these I did recognize in terms of people have recommended some, not all of them, but they were all super interesting. It seems like a lot of them had Mamoudi or Mohanlal. Yeah, they sure did. What's the one, it was black and white and the girls on the other side of the wall? Yeah, it was one of the prison ones. But is it how old do they fall into the realm of, say, a classic? They would for Malayalam. Yeah. Advice, we always talk about that. 90s is a classic for Malayalam. For Malayalam, right. I mean, technically it would be classic for all of them, but I don't for a classic month. No, because Hindi goes back to the 1950s. Yeah, it's a Malayalam too, but the golden age I feel like was late in the 90s. Yeah. I make an exception, because technically DDLJ, that is a classic. Technically, yeah. Yeah, it's like 30 years. Yeah, I've always felt, if it's reached the quarter century mark, yeah, it would technically be a classic. But yeah, a lot of these looked really interesting. The ones he talked about in the beginning, I think it was, no, it was the weird one, even though not that one looked interesting. The one with Mamoudi? No. He said it was almost like a documentary. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've heard a lot about that one as well. I can't find it. But yeah, you guys let us know if some of these are worthy of a watch. And we'll obviously happily do it. I think we've, I don't know if it's, what we've seen the most of, I know we've seen most of Hindi, I don't know what I'm saying. Okay, there's it. Okay. We've seen 18 Telugu's, 34 Malayalam, if everything is in there. Mm-hmm. Because sometimes it's not 30. Right, because it was not on the channel. It says the exact same amount of tamils as well. That didn't surprise me. Yeah. So it looks like, if it's correct, I don't know if it is. Sometimes if I didn't add it, even though I try to add every single video, tamil and malayalam are the exact same amount that we've seen. Hindi obviously has the most. Right. Well, the first year was, yeah, predominantly all Hindi. Predominantly all Hindi. You just didn't know. Anyways, if we should watch some of these, please let us know what they should be down below and upload it for me so I can see it. Thank you. Josh!