In no order, and simply being fed into the Blogger Post as they reveal themselves, here are some of the most dreary film cliches - in abundance in Malayalam cinema.
Take this experiment to Bollywood and you will need a whole new server to list them all:
1. That jaded visual of the Mallu woman coming out of the bathroom with a wet towel around her head; heading to a biiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggg pooja room with a biiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggg Krishna (thanks Sree - for this) - The heroines have thankfully stopped buttoning the heros (a la Srividya and Madhu)
2. The housefly that hovers around any close up of the dead body (around which director Priyadarshan made a whole movie - Thalavattam - where the hero loses his marbles after seeing a housefly hover around his fiancee's body)
3. The villian (either Sai Kumar or Siddique) with the most absurd of wigs (or bald) listening to Hindustani music
4. That all-forgiving 'plastic' mother - must have to be Kaviyoor Ponnamma - and a 50-year-old son sleeping on her lap
5. The long winding dialogue that Suresh Gopi to Mammootty to Prithviraj makes before he shoots - high time they took a leaf from 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'
6. That never-ending wait before someone just tells the damn truth - such as, the money was stolen for treating a sick sister; that the girl is none other than dad's extra-sown seed etc etc - and all it takes is a stupid phone call to clear the mess that drags for two hours
7. That 'karyasthan' who must invariably say this line 'Enikku ninte manassu kaanam;enthinanu nee venthurukkunnathu etc etc' (I can read your mind blah blah)
8. In new ones - the heroine who drowns a beer, gets drunk, buys a condom and calls her lover 'eda, poda' (yeeeeksssssssss)
9. The cracking of passwords - just like that - to more recently the laughable shot of a Wikipedia page on 'poison' with the hero nodding like Archimedes/Issac Newton etc
10. And the wonders that never cease to be - why is the investigating officer seldom a Muslim? Why is the brave supporting officer always shot to bits? How do heroes just escape the bullets? How come cars that collide on the highways with such brutal force keep running? Why do villians invariably run into cellars with booze bottles and explosives or climb up under-construction buildings?
And the show goes on... (with more updates to the cliches to follow)
(The August 15 still from Indiaterminal.com; no copyright violations intended)
Take this experiment to Bollywood and you will need a whole new server to list them all:
1. That jaded visual of the Mallu woman coming out of the bathroom with a wet towel around her head; heading to a biiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggg pooja room with a biiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggg Krishna (thanks Sree - for this) - The heroines have thankfully stopped buttoning the heros (a la Srividya and Madhu)
2. The housefly that hovers around any close up of the dead body (around which director Priyadarshan made a whole movie - Thalavattam - where the hero loses his marbles after seeing a housefly hover around his fiancee's body)
3. The villian (either Sai Kumar or Siddique) with the most absurd of wigs (or bald) listening to Hindustani music
4. That all-forgiving 'plastic' mother - must have to be Kaviyoor Ponnamma - and a 50-year-old son sleeping on her lap
5. The long winding dialogue that Suresh Gopi to Mammootty to Prithviraj makes before he shoots - high time they took a leaf from 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'
6. That never-ending wait before someone just tells the damn truth - such as, the money was stolen for treating a sick sister; that the girl is none other than dad's extra-sown seed etc etc - and all it takes is a stupid phone call to clear the mess that drags for two hours
7. That 'karyasthan' who must invariably say this line 'Enikku ninte manassu kaanam;enthinanu nee venthurukkunnathu etc etc' (I can read your mind blah blah)
8. In new ones - the heroine who drowns a beer, gets drunk, buys a condom and calls her lover 'eda, poda' (yeeeeksssssssss)
10. And the wonders that never cease to be - why is the investigating officer seldom a Muslim? Why is the brave supporting officer always shot to bits? How do heroes just escape the bullets? How come cars that collide on the highways with such brutal force keep running? Why do villians invariably run into cellars with booze bottles and explosives or climb up under-construction buildings?
And the show goes on... (with more updates to the cliches to follow)
(The August 15 still from Indiaterminal.com; no copyright violations intended)
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