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Movie : Love in Singapore Director : Rafi-Mecartin Channel : Surya ‘Love in Singapore’ takes us into the lif

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Movie : Love in Singapore

Director : Rafi-Mecartin

Channel : Surya

‘Love in Singapore’ takes us into the life of Machu, who grew up as an orphan and later became a scrap dealer. Though he gradually starts making money out of his business, Machu never compromises on his honesty or integrity. Machu has Shukoor and Narayanan as his close aides. Andrews Pereira and his daughter Diana, who are on a visit to India, are impressed with the honesty and straightforward nature of Machu. Andrews Pereira takes him to Singapore. From there Machu’s life takes a new turn. While Mammootty dons the role of Machu, Navneeth Kaur plays the role of Diana. Nedumudi Venu becomes Andrews Pereira while Salim Kumar and Bijukuttan become Shukoor and Narayanan respectively.

Suraaj Venjaramoodu also plays a key role in the film.

Movie : Ritu

Director : Shyamaprasad

Channel : Kairali

Ritu is about youngsters working in the IT sector. The story follows the lives of three childhood friends: Sarath Varma (Nishan), Varsha John (Rima), and Sunny Immatty (Asif).

The trio were almost inseparable as friends and they grew up in the same neighborhood in their love, bonding, and innocence. They shared one single dream of journeying together in life forever.

Sarath leaves for US to help his brotherin- law with his business. He also aspires to write a book some day. After three years, he comes back to India and starts a small company with Varsha and Sunny to initiate an ambitious new project. But he soon finds out that their strong bond of friendship has almost vanished. Both Varsha and Sunny’s lifestyles and mindsets have changed over the years.

Movie : Parunthu

Director : M . Padmakumar

Channel : Amrita

‘Parunthu’ has Mammootty as ‘Parunthu’ Purushothaman, a blade mafia chief having a particular penchant for hot cash, operating in Kozhikode city. Puroshothaman’s few associates includes Vinayan (Jayasurya), a youth trapped in a planned ‘Hawala’ case, Kunjachan (Cochin Haneefa) a defaulter who now turns out as his cook and Poojapura Mahendran (Sooraj Venjaranmoodu), a small time land broker. Purushu’s only soft corner is with Seetha (Lakshana), whose property he has taken over after the elopement of her husband, who defaulted Purushu’s loan. The only opponent of ‘Parunthu’ is Kallayi Aziz, another cunning blade mafia don, who runs the Calicut Chits and Real Estates.

Movie : Crazy Gopalan

Director : Deepu Karunakaran

Channel : Asianet

Kattila Gopalan (Dileep) is a notorious name in a little village named Oonjaalaadi.

Though nobody has seen Gopalan, people hold him in dread as he is a thief who always manages to steal whatever he wants, without ever getting caught or even being seen by anyone.

His identity remains a mystery. Then one day Harishchandran (Harisree Asokan), a carpenter happens to see Gopalan for the first time.

Gopalan is thus forced to flee the little village and seeks refuge in the city. There he meets Lakshmanan (Salim Kumar), another thief who has an ailing mother to look after. They form a team and start thieving, Lakshmanan to treat his mother and Gopalan with an aim to buy back his ancestral house which he has lost in his childhood. And then a girl named Diana (Radha Varma) and her brother Babu John (Manoj K Jayan), a rich banker, come into the lives of Gopalan and Lakshmanan.

Movie : Sagar Alias Jacky

Director : Amal Neerad

Channel : Asianet

Mohanlal plays Sagar Alias Jacky, a powerful don based in Dubai. His childhood friend Manu (Manoj K. Jayan) who is married to the chief minister’s daughter Indu (Shobana) is kidnapped. The investigation is stopped cunningly by her brother (K. B. Ganesh Kumar), a powerful politician who is in conflict with his brother -in- law. The desperate Indu thus calls on her friend Sagar alias Jacky to help her resolve the situation. Sagar finds out that Manu was kidnapped by the Rozario brothers based in Goa .Jacky gathers his gang members and goes to rescue his dear friend. Danger follows ultimately resulting in conflict between Sagar and underground king Nainan.

Movie : Lollipop

Director : Shafi

Channel : Asianet

The movie has Prithviraj as Franco, who runs an automobile workshop at Fort Kochi.

He is a freaky youth who takes all strides to enjoy the life to its fullest. He shares a special bonding with his only sister Jennifer (Roma), who are more like friends.

Franco and Jennifer have lost their parents at very younger stages of their life, and to avoid being left lonely at any further stage of their life, they have even decided to find their match in life, only after mutual approval. Jayasuriya is Francis, a mechanic at Franco’s workshop.

He was an expert in pick pocketing and fraudulent ways, till he met Franco.

But now Francis, called as Panchy is a different man with all good maneuvers. Kunchakko Boban plays Aby, a junior doctor who falls in love with Jennifer, but Panchy too has a huge crush on Jenny. Bhavana plays Rosebella, Franco’s love interest.

Movie : Red Chillies

Director : Shaji Kailas

Channel : Surya

Red Chillies is essentially a murder mystery, revolving around a gang of nine talented Radio Jockeys, working with FM 919.1 in Kochi.

OMR (Mohanlal), a business tycoon based in Singapore, is the owner of this FM radio station.

An impeccable personality with multilingual talents, OMR has lots of enemies, some of whom even send professional killers to eliminate him.

All the nine RJ’s think they are madly in love with this high flying businessman, whom they have never met in person. ut in a terrible twist in the plot, the girls get entangled in a multiple murder, drunk driving, disobeying police officers, dancing and singing at a posh bar and drug abuse.

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