Many Indian movie makers have learned the tactic of riding on the wave of hype and making money out of third class movies. This movie is probably the latest in the list of Malayalam movies that do that. With a paltry confused audience and lack of existence of any real meat that can be translated to a good movie, the producers have to try all kinds of stunts to make a movie a success. The result is movies like this 3+ hours long farce.
We have great difficulty in establishing the authenticity of historic events that happened 20 years ago, so forget about the authenticity of the event that has gone into this movie. It is not a movie based on history, it is merely a fictional version of a page from the history of Kerala. So, patriots, no need to boil your blood over this.
It is a Malayalam movie where the same superstars and comedians appear in slightly different costumes. It is a Malayalam movie with the usual masala (endless unrealistic stunts, dialogs with no punch and no regard for the people who watch it).
Only good thing about the movie is the photography and the credit goes not to the photographer, but to Kerala herself. Sound mixing is great in some scenes, but it didn't help much to elevate the enjoyability of the movie.
Stunt scenes are horrible. The director should have cut down on the stunt scenes to hide all the awkward moves saving us some time. But, clearly, he was trying to please the audience at the other end of the spectrum. Mammootty could have used some ayurvedic massage before the fights to loosen his muscles a bit. It is very hard to think that the famed kalari fighters could have a paunch that bulges out above the hard-tied mundu.
Sharthkumar has done a great job in his stunts and acting, so did Thilakan. Most others including the great Mammootty are average. Kanika, who acted as Makkom, made me wonder how Pazhassi Raja could possibly be a great man with such an over-acting spine-less wife. Then there was Padmapriya who acted as Neeli, a flying, fighting tribal girl who looked as fair as a Persian and looked and talked as if she grew up in New Delhi. Then, there were a bunch of white men in loose fitting clothes, who looked like they were picked up from Kovalam beach. But, I think the director is to blame for all the poor acting, punch-less dialogs and lousy stunt scenes. It is very clear that most scenes were shot without enough thought behind it.
If this movie comes anywhere near you, run away.
We have great difficulty in establishing the authenticity of historic events that happened 20 years ago, so forget about the authenticity of the event that has gone into this movie. It is not a movie based on history, it is merely a fictional version of a page from the history of Kerala. So, patriots, no need to boil your blood over this.
It is a Malayalam movie where the same superstars and comedians appear in slightly different costumes. It is a Malayalam movie with the usual masala (endless unrealistic stunts, dialogs with no punch and no regard for the people who watch it).
Only good thing about the movie is the photography and the credit goes not to the photographer, but to Kerala herself. Sound mixing is great in some scenes, but it didn't help much to elevate the enjoyability of the movie.
Stunt scenes are horrible. The director should have cut down on the stunt scenes to hide all the awkward moves saving us some time. But, clearly, he was trying to please the audience at the other end of the spectrum. Mammootty could have used some ayurvedic massage before the fights to loosen his muscles a bit. It is very hard to think that the famed kalari fighters could have a paunch that bulges out above the hard-tied mundu.
Sharthkumar has done a great job in his stunts and acting, so did Thilakan. Most others including the great Mammootty are average. Kanika, who acted as Makkom, made me wonder how Pazhassi Raja could possibly be a great man with such an over-acting spine-less wife. Then there was Padmapriya who acted as Neeli, a flying, fighting tribal girl who looked as fair as a Persian and looked and talked as if she grew up in New Delhi. Then, there were a bunch of white men in loose fitting clothes, who looked like they were picked up from Kovalam beach. But, I think the director is to blame for all the poor acting, punch-less dialogs and lousy stunt scenes. It is very clear that most scenes were shot without enough thought behind it.
If this movie comes anywhere near you, run away.