Bazooka vs Alappuzha Gymkhana Extended Weekend Worldwide Box Office: Mammootty-led thriller trails behind Naslen’s ambitious film

Bazooka vs Alappuzha Gymkhana Extended Weekend Worldwide Box Office: Mammootty-led thriller trails behind Naslen’s ambitious film

When the lights dimmed on April 10th across theaters in Kerala, audiences had two very different flavors waiting for them: Superstar Mammootty’s stylish action thriller Bazooka and Naslen’s feel-good boxing saga Alappuzha Gymkhana. While both films had momentum and festival buzz behind them, only one managed to turn that into a consistent box office run if we read into the numbers.  Initially, Bazooka seemed poised for a grand victory. With a po…

Charm and camaraderie fill the scorecard in Alappuzha Gymkhana

The genius of this Khalid Rahman film lies in its ability to take the seemingly trivial aspirations of a group of directionless youth—grace marks, state-level medals—and infuse them with emotional depth and quiet significance. In the newly released Malayalam movie, Alappuzha Gymkhana, one character asks, confused, “What kind of boxing do we even do?” The other replies with quiet certainty, “We do 1-2 boxing.” It’s a deceptively simple exchange, …