
Starring Dulquer Salmaan, Karthika, Priyanka Nair. ‘Comrade in America’ is pleasant and entertaining enough to watch though, all things considered. Amal Neerad also misses out on making a bold statement on some very sensitive and extremely relevant subject matter and prefers to make tasteless jokes about men getting raped instead. But the movie loses its footing slightly in execution, getting a bit “draggy” towards the end. The actors have all done a good job and the plot is interesting enough as well. The film’s protagonist is Aji, a young communist, who falls in love with an NRI girl and travels to the US (entering illegally through Mexico) to stop her from getting married to some other guy her parents have picked.

The Oscar nominations will be announced on February 8.At first glance, Amal Neerad’s ‘CIA’ seems like another one in the long line of communist-themed films that have flooded the Malayalam cinema recently. The ceremony will return to its usual spot at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, after last year’s pandemic-delayed Oscars, which was broadcast from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.

The Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets in more than 200 territories worldwide on March 27 (8 pm ET/5 pm PT). Will Packer is the executive producer of this year's Academy Awards.

The ratings dipped slightly but 2021’s COVID-delayed Oscars, which took place at Union Station, also without a host, lost more than half of its audience.Ĭoming back to Oscars 2022, ABC, on Tuesday, also announced that Glenn Weiss would return to direct the Academy Awards for the seventh consecutive year. the previous year, the Academy and ABC also decided to go without a host in 2020. However, Hart later decided to drop out after the organisation asked him to apologise for years-old homophobic tweets after that, the 2019 event went hostless.Īs the 2019 Oscars actually saw its ratings increase vs. The Oscars went hostless in 2019 when the Academy at first announced Kevin Hart for the hosting gig.
