Lijo Jose Pellissery with his 3rd film after two really different experimental films "nayakan" and "city of God" is a easter treat for all keralites. Amen "a divine comedy" is again an experimental film...
About the movie: Amen is a musical comedy which deals with the love story of Solaman and sossama and circles around with the life of people in a land called Kumaragiri. An ancient syrian church and people of the place and the band are the main characters of the story. Lijo has wonderfully executed the script of this story, and some fabulous screenplay and dialogues by PS Rafeeque. It is really a visual treat with awesome sets given and the characterization of the movie has been just brilliant. Every person in the movie has an unique identity of their own which makes us remember each individually. The story has a very serious part in the second half but the way lijo has inserted comic situations every now and then keeps away the boring and the humor situations are really new for us and done in variety manner.
The music has been very simple and folksy and very nice to hear and went on a flow through the movie. so is the background scores which were just awesome.
The cinematography by Abinandhan Ramanujam was just brilliant and You got to watch out how camera moves in every shots and its just amazing and kudos to the art directors(Mohammed Bawa) for those wonderful sets and costume designers (Siji Thomas Nobel) for perfect costumes and editors(Manoj) for those beautiful edited shots.
And of course a beautiful and brilliant executed climax makes us give them a standing ovation.
About the cast:
Fahad fazil is the lead character in the story as Solaman. when fahad is in the screen what you expect is brilliance and he never made it down and was spot on with the character and was just brilliant.
Swaty reddy (subramaniapuram fame) made her debut in malayalam through this film as Sossama and was just awesome especially with the cute face and epic dialogue deliveries within her family was just hilarious.
Indrajith has been lijo's fav and he continues in his 3rd venture as Father Vincent Vattoli and needs high appreciation for his part as he did it with absolute brilliance, truly needs a standing ovation.
Nathasha sahgal, Script writer turned actress played love interest of Indrajith kept it pretty good as just how it needed.
The people favorite Rachana plays as clara the sister of solaman give some beautiful dialogue delivery and again was perfect for the role.
Kalabhavan Mani as choir leader just kept it perfect and realistic and was brilliant.
Makrand Deshpande as a guest role has a hilarious entry and made it brilliant.
Chemban Vinod again in another lijo movie made did a fantastic and surprise funny role as paily.
Kulapulli leela as paili's mother and toddy shop owner continues to make us laugh.
Anil murali as brother in law of indrajith, Sandra thomas as sister of indrajith, shashi kalinga was absolute spot on with their roles.
Well like this each and every characters was unique and brilliant and made their role to perfection.
Should you watch:
The new experiment of lijo did work out with awesome script and narration and some hilarious unusual comic scenes make the film worth it to watch and surely
its a must watch movie. the visualization, dialogues, background scores, camera work, choreography, narration, anything and everything was brilliant and spot on.
and as always the final decision is yours.... Advanced Happy easter guys!!! AMEN!!!
My Rating: 4.75/5
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