'Jallikattu', the 2019 action drama, is based on the short story named Maoist by Hareesh. The film stars Antony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad and Santhy Balachandran. The story revolves around a buffalo that flees from a slaughterhouse in a remote hill town of Kerala, and ends up unleashing pandemonium as the townsfolk end up in its hunt.
Award Shows Have an Opportunity to Be Historic This Year. Why Won t They Take It?
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This could have been the weirdest, best awards season of all time. With many of the usual blockbusters and award-show contenders postponed until it’s safe for audiences to return to movie theaters in droves, this was supposed to be the year that groups like the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw up their hands and left with no other choice finally rewarded a more diverse, less traditional group of deserving underdogs.
They had plenty to choose from this year, too. There were plenty of excellent Black-led ensemble films whose subjects feel particularly relevant to today, like