Minnal Murali: ‘Minnal Murali’ on Geo Mami before Netflix release; Announced by Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra Jonas announces the world premiere of Tovino Thomas’ Minnal Murali on December 16 at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 

The film will have its international debut on the 16th of December 2021 at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, India's largest film festival, before being released on Netflix on the 24th of December. Priyanka Chopra Jonas, a worldwide celebrity, actor, producer, author, and chairwoman of Jio MAMI, Mumbai Film Festival, and Smriti Kiran, the Artistic Director of Jio MAMI, joined the Minnal Murali team - actor Tovino Thomas, and director Basil Joseph - to announce the international premiere of the film. Priyanka, Basil, Tovino, and Smriti discussed Indian superhero flicks, as well as what Priyanka liked about Minnal Murali, how the film came to be, and more.

Minnal Murali, Netflix's highly anticipated superhero film of the year, is just around the horizon. The plot follows the adventures of an average man who becomes a superhero after being struck by a bolt of lightning that bestows him with exceptional abilities. However, he quickly discovers that he is not the only one in his town with these talents, and what follows is a series of events that will keep you hooked to your screen.

‘Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham’ Starring Mohanlal will probably end up as an OTT Release

As the crew considers several alternatives, director Priyadarshan's magnum opus Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham may be released on an OTT platform. Antony Perumbavoor, the film's producer, said he was running out of patience and couldn't wait any more. On Monday, he spoke to the media on the sidelines of the 67th National Awards ceremony.

"I'm not sure how much longer I can wait." I'm debating whether to release it in theatres or on demand. "There are greater pictures waiting to be done than Marakkar," Antony informed the press.

The Mohanlal-starrer has been postponed for two years in the hopes of a theatrical release. "When we made this movie, we wanted it to be seen in theatres." We were also anticipating that. "We're currently reviewing all options before making a decision," he said, according to the Indian Express. "Releasing Marakkar in theatres with other films, with 50% occupancy, and hoping to make money is not easy," Antony stated on Monday, as theatres across Kerala opened with 50% occupancy.

"We've spoken with Amazon Prime. If the decision is made to take the OTT route, there will be no theatrical release, according to Onmanorama.

Best Feature Film, Best Special Effects, and Best Costume Design were among the three National Awards won by Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham. The film, which is claimed to have cost Rs 100 crore, is based on the life of Kunjali Marakkar IV, the naval leader of the Zamorin of Calicut.

Sunil Shetty, Arjun Sarja, Prabhudheva, Manju Warrier, Keerthy Suresh, Pranav Mohanlal, and Kalyani Priyadarshan are among the film's star-studded cast.

Mars Mission

Two spacecraft launched for Mars this month: Mars Orbiter Mission on November 5, andMAVEN on November 18. But MAVEN is already on an interplanetary trajectory, while Mars Orbiter Mission is still in Earth orbit and will not depart for Mars until the end of the month. A lot of people are asking me: why the difference?

I knew it was related to their different launch vehicles, but to get a more informed answer I turned to David Doody, a senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and author of the really awesome JPL online resource called "The Basics of Space Flight." Dave periodically teaches courses on how interplanetary navigation works; registration opens in April for his next one.

Dave confirmed that the different approaches were related to their launch vehicles and to the different spacecraft masses. For MAVEN, the trip to Mars is straightforward. That's because its Atlas V rocket was able to deliver both MAVEN (with a mass of 2500 kilograms, fully fueled) and an attached, powerful Centaur upper stage into Earth orbit. While already orbiting Earth, Centaur was able to kick MAVEN directly on to Mars. Dave explained:

On Monday the MAVEN spacecraft, stacked atop a Centaur upper stage, enjoyed a flawless launch, rising from Earth on an Atlas 5. The Centaur fired its engine to place itself and the spacecraft into a more or less circular Earth orbit. After twenty-seven minutes, it had coasted around to just the right point to start the trip to Mars: tangent to Earth's solar orbit on the midnight side. There the Centaur fired again, injecting it into its interplanetary trajectory. The spacecraft then separated from the Centaur and deployed its solar panels for cruise. (This is a familiar sequence, by the way. The Cassini spacecraft started out from Earth using two burns from its Centaur.) From here to Mars, it's just a long coasting free-fall, with the exception of a few very brief propulsive events to make trajectory corrections as needed.

NASA / Bill Ingalls

MAVEN launches to Mars

MAVEN lifted off at 18:28 UTC on November 18, 2013, atop an Atlas V 401 rocket.

NASA / Ames

Centaur firing in space

This artwork depicts the LCROSS satellite attached to a Centaur upper stage rocket, firing to adjust the spacecraft's trajectory in space. MAVEN is larger than LCROSS was, but still much smaller than the big Centaur.

India's four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) could deliver Mars Orbiter Mission (with a mass of 1340 kilograms, fully fueled) to Earth orbit, but not with a heavy, powerful upper stage like Centaur. Mars Orbiter Mission has to get to Mars using its much smaller Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) and the relatively small amount of fuel it was able to carry to orbit. Dave explained:

MOM chooses to do things differently. Having less massive a spacecraft than MAVEN, ISRO is depending on its proven Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, and a reliable propulsion system that is built into the spacecraft: a 440-newton bi-propellant fed rocket engine (Cassini has biprop 440 N engines too!), and instead of one very powerful Centaur burn (about 99,000 newtons), ISRO would use its much smaller engine repeatedly. It has to be repeated burns, rather than one long burn, because in order to raise the spacecraft's apoapsis - the high point in its orbit - it has to fire when it is speeding past its closest point to Earth, at periapsis. (For more details on this, look for "The Key to Space Flight" here.)

So with repeated burns while going through periapses, the MOM spacecraft is working its way to a high enough energy to get on a trajectory that will be hyperbolic with respect to Earth; it will have the ability to inject onto its interplanetary cruise, orbiting the Sun instead of Earth. MAVEN did this all at once with a powerful rocket; MOM is doing it in steps using its smaller rocket, but the energy required (per unit of spacecraft mass) is about the same.

ISRO

Mars Orbiter Mission's troubled fourth rocket burn

It took about five minutes of thrust from the Centaur for MAVEN to depart Earth orbit for its interplanetary transfer. I counted up the rocket burns reported for Mars Orbiter Mission so far, and they amounted to roughly 40 minutes' total thrust. (They didn't report times for every burn, so this is just an estimate.) Those minutes were spread out over six maneuvers, all timed to happen right when the spacecraft was near its perigee, to make the most of their precious fuel. One more burn remains, the largest one yet by far, to send Mars Orbiter Mission on to Mars. ISRO chief K. Rhadakrishnan stated the statistics in an interview to The Hindu earlier this week:

In the early hours of December 1, around 00.36 hours [IST, or November 30 at 11:06 PT / 19:06 UT], we have the trans-Mars injection of our Mars spacecraft. On that day, we are going to use the 440 Newton liquid engine again to impart a delta-v, that is, an incremental velocity of nearly 648 metres a second to the spacecraft and the engine will burn for 1,351 seconds.... When this running of the 440 Newton liquid engine takes place on December 1, we also have eight numbers of 22 Newton control thrusters firing.

Once Mars Orbiter Mission has left Earth orbit, its trajectory toward Mars will be very similar to MAVEN's, Dave explained:

After their Earth departures, MAVEN on November 18 and MOM planned for November 30, their interplanetary trajectory will be the well-known, minimum propellant, Hohmann Transfer, in which they coast "up" away from the Sun, slowing all the way to Mars. Upon arrival, each spacecraft will again fire its rocket engine to be captured by Mars's gravity and enter orbit around the planet.

Myron Kayton

Hohmann transfer orbit diagram

A Hohmann transfer orbit can take a spacecraft from Earth to Mars. The orbit is an elliptical one, where the periapsis is at Earth's distance from the Sun and the apoapsis is at Mars' distance from the Sun. The transfer orbit has to be timed so that when the spacecraft departs Earth, it will arrive at its orbit apoapsis when Mars is at the same position in its orbit. Earth and Mars align properly for a Hohmann transfer once every 26 months.

Both spacecraft get only one chance to enter Mars orbit. Mars Orbiter Mission will again be using its single 440-Newton rocket to perform the orbit insertion maneuver. MAVEN has six rocket motors, each of which can achieve 200 Newtons of thrust. But MAVEN needs that much more power, because it is a much heavier spacecraft. When MAVEN arrives at Mars, it will still possess nearly all the fuel it launched with, and will weigh in at around 2400 kilograms. Mars Orbiter Mission will have burned a great deal of its onboard fuel simply to depart Earth orbit, so will weigh under 1000 kilograms.

	Mars Orbiter Mission	MAVEN
Launch mass	1340 kg	2454 kg
Propellant	852 kg	1645 kg
Dry mass	488 kg	809 kg

I highly recommend the Basics of Space Flight as a well-explained resource on how we get spacecraft from one place to another!

FAHAD FAZIL WALKS OUT OF DOUBLE BARRELL...

According to the latest reports, Fahad Fazil has walked out from the most anticipated multi-starrer movie Double Barrel. The movie, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, was planned with an ensemble star cast including Prithviraj, Fahad Fazil, Indrajith, Sunny Wayne and Asif Ali. But, it is rumoured that, Fahad Fazil has opted out of the project due to unknown reasons. Double Barrel is produced by Prithviraj, Santhosh Sivan and Shaji Nadesan under the banner August Cinema. The team earlier planned for a horror thriller named Anti-Christ, but the project was shelved due to various reasons. The makers of the movie, instead planned for a comedy-thriller and finalised with the project Double Barrel.

Fahad Fazil was earlier approached for a pivotal role in Prithviraj's production venture Sapthamashree Thaskaraha. But the actor turned down the offer due to unavailability of dates. Later, the role went to Asif Ali. The news about Fahad and Prithviraj sharing screen in Double Barrel got huge publicity and it increased the expectations on the project. Swathi Reddy, Isha Sherwani and Rachana Narayanankutti will play the female leads in Double Barrel. The film went on floors from July and the filming is progressing on various locations of Fort Kochi and Goa. Abhinandan Ramanujan is the cinematographer and Prashanth Pillai handles the music department. Double Barrel is expected to get released for Christmas. 

LAILAA O LAILAA FILMING POSTPONDED

Lailaa O Lailaa, the upcoming movie directed by Joshiy starring Mohanlal and Amala Paul has been postponed again. The movie, which was about to start filming on Chingam 1st (August 17th), has been postponed into August 27th due to Mohanlal's health issues. Lailaa O Lailaa marks the trio Joshiy-Mohanlal-Amala Paul joining hands, after the huge success of Run Baby Run. The movie was announced on November 2013, by Mohanlal on his official facebook page. There were rumours about Manju Warrier replacing Amala Paul as the female lead; but Amala herself brushed of the rumours in an interview and confirmed that she has not walked out from the project. The filming of Lailaa O Lailaa has got postponed multiple times due to various reasons. It was also reported the project is shelved due to the creative differences between the writer Suresh Nair and Joshiy; but the director denied the rumours and confirmed that the project is very much on board. Lailaa O Lailaa is penned by Suresh Nair, the scenarist of Bollywood superhit Kahaani. The movie is produced by the banner Finecut Entertainment. Along with Mohanlal and Amala Paul, Tamil actor Sathyaraj will also play a pivotal role in the movie. Reportedly, Bollywood actor Sonu Sood will make his Malayalam debut as antagonist, in the movie. The movie is expected to be released for Christmas 2014.

The first teaser of the upcoming movie Lal Bahadur Shastri is out. The movie is written and directed by Rijesh Midhila. Jayasurya, Nedumudi Venu and Aju Varghese play the title characters Lal, Bahadur and Shastri respectively. Watch Lal Bahdur Shastri teaser here The teaser, which is 20 seconds long introduces the characters Lal, Bahadur and Shastri in a funny manner. Each character introduces themselves while indulging in a conversation and Aju Varghese's character finds out that their names jointly forms the name of the veteran politician Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India. The movie revolves around three strangers who accidently meets during a journey and join hands for accomplishing a mission. Jayasurya's son Adwaith makes his acting debut with this movie. Reportedly, he is playing the childhood version of Jayasurya's character Lal, in the movie. Midukki reality show fame Sandra Simon plays the female lead opposite Jayasurya in the movie. Lakshmi Priya and Kavitha Nair will play the other pivotal roles. Bijibal composes the music and Eldo Issac handles the cinematography. The movie is produced by Jose Simon and Rajesh George under the banner Jairaj Productions. Lal Bahadur Shasthri


official teaser

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Photo Credits : Malayalam Talkies.

Srihari G Nair

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