
Kurup and Kavalam Narayana Panicker, contemporaries of the great poet, observed that Prakash performed brilliantly as P, even with exact the body language as if he is very familiar with P though he has never met him in person. Kunhiraman Nair (popularly known as Mahakavi P). Prakash is best known for his depiction of poet KP Madhavan Nair in Ivan Megharoopan inspired by the life and works of the renowned Malayalam poet P. Ivan Megharoopan, Oraalppokkam, Sufi Paranja Katha, Shutter(Marathi), Oru Indian Pranayakatha and Kaadu Pookkunna Neram are some of most noticed performances of Prakash. Padmakumar, Lijin Jose, Sajeevan Anthikkad, Satheesh Paul, MG Sasi, Shalini Usha Nair et al. Biju, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, Shyamaprasad, Jayan K. Prakash Bare has acted in more than 30 films, mostly critically acclaimed and artistic, in Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and English languages directed by eminent filmmakers like Priyanandanan, P.

He is currently the Co-founder of Sinergia Media Labs, based in Smartcity Kochi which is into digital transformation services.

GDA, listed as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in US by Inc Magazine its annual INC500 list in 2002, was subsequently acquired by Rambus Inc and L&T Technology Services in March 2007. He was a co-founder of GDA Technologies Inc, one of the pioneering Electronic Design Services(EDS) companies. Prakash has held various technology and business positions in electronics design industry in the US and India. He later did a masters in Microelectronics from IIT Kanpur, and spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, California where he worked as a technologist and entrepreneur in the micro chip design and automation industry. Prakash was active in dramatics during the college days and has won many accolades including Best Actor awards in Calicut University Interzone arts festival. He completed B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala. Movies that have this same melancholic thread in complicated settings include Robin Williams afterlife fantasy/drama What Dreams May Come, and the existentially devastating Synecdoche, New York.Prakash grew up in Chirakkal, a small village in Kannur district and attended Kamala Nehru UP School, Govt Model High School, Valapattanam and S. Of course, Inception wouldn’t have resonated if it was all just sleight-of-hands and technical games DiCaprio’s family drama provided a compelling emotional hook. Then there’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who was on simulated realities in the 1970s with World on a Wire, which Criterion has pressed for its original 3.5 hour cut. Earlier brain-hopping takes include adventure romp Dreamscape, and the absurdly violent Total Recall. The Truman Show, eXistenZ, Being John Malkovich, and The Thirteenth Floor explore this space. An approaching new millennium felt like crossing a threshold into the unknown future, where technology, like Inception‘s mechanics to hijack dreams, brought limitless opportunities and dangers. Inception shares the most in the plot department with Satoshi Kon’s anime Paprika.īut the mood really started in the ’90s. Nobody, The Congress, The Cell, Coherence, Time Lapse, and Enemy explore identity across multiple realities. The number of these films has exploded since 2000, especially in the last decade: Think the space-time continuum-whacking Predestination, Primer, and Timecrimes. What makes a movie like Inception? The initial response is for some cracking sci-fi mind-f–kers. (See our list of 20 movies to watch if you loved Shutter Island, which has more Incept-y movies like Dark City and The Game.) They’re both slick, dark thrillers that question reality and perception.

But you, esteemed Tomato-reader, already knew that, have seen ’em both – probably many times – and thus know the joys of a David-Bowie-as-Nikola-Tesla performance! We present, then, 20 more movies to watch if you loved Inception.įirst, there’s Shutter Island, which has a lot of overlap with Inception, and not just because they star the same guy. If you’re looking for more movies like Inception, the two other Nolan films that hew most closely are 1999’s brain-splitter Memento, and 2006’s treacherous The Prestige. It left audiences wanting more… and we’re here to help.

The dizzying dream heist thriller floored audiences with its complex shots – a city collapsing on itself, along with the practical effects wizardry of rotating hallway brawls – and a densely, literally layered plot. Ten years ago, Inception, the dream-team movie collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan, rode into theaters on a wave of hype and secrecy matching the director’s previous game-changer, The Dark Knight. Thumbnail: New Line, Vertical Entertainment /courtesy Everett Collection) 20 Movies To Watch If You Loved Inception
