Jacob Gregory

The story of Parava revolves around pigeon race, a game, which is prominent in Mattancherry, Kochi, Kerala.

Mohanlal plays Vineeth Pillai, a bored scribe who has been working for a family magazine for the past twenty years. Kalyani, the new editor-in-chief, decides to revamp the whole system and get rid of the old staff. In order to make life difficult for Vineeth and get him to quit, he is assigned with the tough task of interviewing Deepa, an advocate-cum-activist. She evades all his attempts and the film chronicles how he goes about accomplishing the challenge.

The film is a beautiful love tale which takes place between a mobile shop owner and a girl who is a regular to the shop. The film is a fun film which shows the attempts of the boy to find the whereabouts of the girl and to woo her.

This darkly comic crime mystery set in small-town Estonia centers on Elsa, the mother and full time caretaker of Lauri, a teacher who has been in a coma since being shot under shadowy circumstances. Attentive in her duties but at the end of her tether, Elsa receives Lauri's visitors-friends, students, his girlfriend, his boss, and others-who come to update the unconscious Lauri on their lives and unburden themselves of their troubles. But as the police inquiry into the crime progresses, some of his closest ties are called into question. Director Kadri Kõusaar cunningly navigates a script that slowly pieces together the truth behind Lauri's shooting through his visitors' confessionals to the comatose protagonist, cleverly building a web of motives among the tight-knit community. Bathed in the pastel tones of post-Soviet life, Mother is a smartly-crafted whodunit set in a small town where just about everyone is dreaming of something bigger and some are willing to do whatever it takes to get out. —Ian Hollander