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Cobra9519620

2012-07-30T07:34:10Z

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Cobra is a 2012 Malayalam film directed by Lal, starring himself and [http://www.mammootty.info/ Mammootty] in the lead roles. The film is a comedy-action-thriller. The songs were composed by Alex Paul, and background score by Deepak Dev.
Cobra is the short form of Co-brothers (Kottayam Brothers). As the name suggests it tells the story of two brothers Raja (Mammootty) and Kari (Lal). Saleemkumar and Manian pillai raju play the roles of their security.

Cobra lives only in places that start with Co. After Connaught Place, New Delhi, they shift to Kothamangalam. They are looking for brides for them with only one condition that they should be sisters. They find an alliance at Kothamangalam and their marriage gets fixed. But on the day of marriage, one of the brides gets late for marriage. Thinking that she eloped, Raja creates a fuzz there and the marriage gets cancelled. To escape from humiliation, they shift to Kottayam.

At Kottayam, they meets Samuel (Lalu Alex) who is looking for prospective buyers for his house. He needs money for the education of his daughters, both of which are doing medical studies else where. While Cobras are negotiating the deal, they see the picture of the two girls and plans a marriage with them. Samuel wants to hide the news of selling his house from his daughters. So he asks Cobras to hide this news for another 6 months until their studies are over. Cobras say that they will do registration only after 6 months and during that period they will stay at Samuel's house as tenants.

Meanwhile, Isaac (Babu Antony) and his brother is trying to forcefully take Samuel's house and his hospital. Isaac tries to humiliate Cobras on the day of inauguration of his new physical fitness center. Samuel and Isaac gets into a verbal fight and fixes a boxing match the next weekend with a deal that whoever wins the match will get the hospital. Isaac finds out that Raja has a twin brother named Shivadas who looks exactly like him. Isaac blackmails Raja saying that if he does not withdraw from the match, he will bring his twin brother to Kari. Raja thinks that it will break Kari's heart and so he decides to back out from the fight. But Kari and Samuel decides to carry on with the match.

For the match, Raja joins them. Even during the match Isaac tries to blackmail Raja showing him Shivadas standing at a distance view from the venue. Initially Raja does not fight back and gets badly beaten. Then Kari comes to the ring and he gets badly beaten too. Seeing Kari getting beaten up, Raja decides to fight back and defeats Isaac and his brother. Meanwhile, seeing the love between Raja and Kari, Shivadas leaves the scene without anyone noticing.

Reviews

The film was released on 12 April 2012 and got mixed reviews . [2]

"Malayalam Net" gave a good rating of 2.75/5 and said that "Cobra" is a genuine entertainer for this vacation season.[3].

"Filmglitz" gave a positive review stating that "This ‘Cobra’ is not venomous as expected, but will definitely make you laugh during this festive season provided you keep the brain off for sometime ! Watch it, just for a laugh !". [4].

"MetroMatinee" rated the film as a good entertainer, and said that "COBRA is more than reason for celebration for fans of Megastar Mammootty. For the rest of us who would like to have a bit more than star charisma from his films, Lal has plenty to offer as well.It tells a simple story in a surprisingly imposing manner". [5]

"Theater Balcony" gave a rating of 3/5 stars,explaining that "Cobra" is a fine mix of some good comedy, good direction, simple story, romance, fine action and some good emotional scene. Also they sum up,Cobra might end up as a good entertaining movie to celebrate the festival.[6]
"Nowrunning" gave a rating of 2/5 stars, and said that "When you sense that the film you are about to see, plans to tell you a story of twin brothers separated at birth, the warning bell goes off. Lal's latest cinematic outing 'Cobra' is a misadventure of two brothers who have been born together, but whom nobody believes to be twins, since one happens to be fair and the other a bit too dark."

Sify.com's Moviebuzz rated the movie "average"[7], saying it is "a botched up version of the conventional recipes".

Rediff.com rated 2/5 stars,[8] saying that "Cobra offers nothing much to the discerning viewer and just cashes in on the actors' star image".

Inkscape321447

2012-07-29T10:12:42Z

AudreywhhzgggbplBoike: Created page with ' An [http://www.imcredel.com/ Open Source ] vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphi…'

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Malayalam Films9882270

2012-07-29T08:58:44Z

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The Cinema of Kerala (also known as Malayalam cinema, the Malayalam film industry) is a part of Indian cinema, where motion pictures are produced in the Indian state of Kerala in the Malayalam language. Malayalam cinema is known for its realistic portrayal of relevant subjects in films with less commercial elements. Malayalam cinema has pioneered various technical, thematic and production techniques among films in India. The industry is the fourth largest film industry in India. It is also one of the largest producers of parallel cinema in India.

At first (beginning in the 1920s), the Malayalam film industry was based in Trivandrum. Although the film industry started to develop and flourish only by the late-1940s. Later, the industry shifted to Chennai (formerly Madras), which then was the capital of the South Indian film industry. In the 2000s, the Malayalam film industry returned and established itself in Kochi with a major chunk of locations, studios and production facilities.

Guru and Adaminte Makan Abu were the only Malayalam films to be sent by India as its official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1997 and 2011 respectively. The first 3-D film produced in India, My Dear Kuttichathan (1984), was made in Malayalam.[1] The first CinemaScope film produced in South India was the Malayalam film Thacholi Ambu (1978).[2] The world's first film with just one actor in the star cast was the Malayalam film The Guard

A lead actor is called as a superstar when that person has become a driving force at the box office. Just like other Indian film industries, there are no clear-cut guidelines for decorating an actor as superstar, and this designation is almost always bestowed by the media after an actor proves to be a champion at the box office.[citation needed]

Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair was the first person in the Malayalam film history to be called a superstar,[12] following the tremendous success of his second film Jeevithanauka (1951), which is touted as the first superhit of Malayalam cinema. Later Prem Nazir, Sathyan, Madhu, Jayan, M. G. Soman, and Sukumaran came to be called superstars. Prem Nazir and Sathyan formed a bipolar industry in which a considerable number of films made in Malayalam in the later 1960s and almost the whole of 1970s starred one of them, until the rise of Jayan. Curiously, the trend was continued in the next era as well, with Mammootty & Mohanlal being established as superstars in the 1980s. Suresh Gopi emerged as a superstar by mid 1990s, following a series of successful movies having police/political themes, most notably Commissioner, directed by Shaji Kailas .[citation needed]

As with most of the other Indian film industries, the Malayalam film industry is driven by male actors. None of the female actors who have been part of the industry have come to be known as superstars, though there have been immensely popular stars like Miss Kumari, Sharada, Sheela, Jayabharathi, Vidhubala, Srividya, Shobhana, Revathi, Urvashi, Manju Warrier, Samyuktha Varma and Kavya Madhavan.[citation needed]

Many actors have brought laurels to Malayalam films with their performances. As of 2011, Malayalam film actors have won 13 out of the 47 National Film Awards for Best Actor ever given away, including two occasions of double awardees. 13 is the second highest number of award wins by a film industry trailed only by Hindi (19 awards). The Malayalam film actors who have won the award are P. J. Antony (1974), Gopi (1978), Balan K. Nair (1981), Premji (1988), [http://www.mammootty.info/ Mammootty] (1989, 1993, 1999), Mohanlal (1991, 2000), Suresh Gopi (1998), Balachandra Menon (1998), Murali (2002) and Salim Kumar (2011). Additionally, Malayalam film actors have won several Special Jury Awards as well: Mohanlal (1990), Kalabhavan Mani (2000), Nedumudi Venu (2004), Thilakan (2007).

Malayalam female actors are not far behind. As of 2007, they have won the National Film Award for Best Actress 5 times. The winners are Sharada (1969, 1973, 1979), Monisha (1987), Shobana (1994, 2002), Meera Jasmine (2004) and Priyamani (2007). The actresses to win the Special Jury Award are Jomol (1998), Manju Warrier (1999) and Jyothirmayi (2003). Sharada did win another award in 1979 for the Telugu film Nimajjan; so did Shobana in 2002 for the Indian made English language film Mitr, My Friend.[citation needed] Notable Current Super lead actors include Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Dileep, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Kunchacko Boban, Indrajith, Jayasurya, Asif Ali, Fahad Fazil, Dulquer Salmaan, Narain, Anoop Menon, Nivin Pauly and Unni Mukundan

Somalia3160143

2012-07-29T07:09:45Z

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Years of fighting between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine and disease have led to the deaths of up to one million people.

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