Movie Review: Om Shanti Oshana

Om Shanti Oshana:

OSO is the directed by Jude Anthony Joseph is a romantic comedy genre.

About the Movie:
Apart from other love stories, Om Shanti Oshana is a romantic love story from a girls prespective. Pooja Mathew(Nazriya Nazim) is a girl with boy like character, always makes troubles in her school and church. Her parents, Dr.Mathew Davis(Ranji Panicker) love her so much. Apart from her buddy colleagues Neethu(Akshaya) and Dona(Oeshin) she has another best friend her aunt Rachel(Vinayprasad). Both talks about anything and everything, and in a daily conversation about her cousin's marriage they discuss about marrying the person you love, and she decides to love a man and marry him. She first finds the best looking of school, but later she finds that love is not only in looks, but character. She finds out the name of his love is Giri(Nivin Pauly) who is well known in the town by all expect herself. She finds out that Giri is the classmate of her cousin David Kanjani(Aju Varghese)who is utter fraud. Giri is also a social activist, loved by everyone helps the poor, against dowry and of course a kungfu master. On Giri's b'day she tells her love to him, but already having a clue, He lets her down saying she is too small to love. Heart broken she goes back but with a firm mind to show him that she is not immature about her love. Later after completion of her higher studies,she joins Medicine in Kozhikode and when she goes to tell Giri about it finds out that he went to Shaolin Temple, for some personal reasons. In college life she has new buddies, new life and a new best friend who is also his lecturer Dr.Prasad Varkey(Vineeth Sreenivasan). Her hope for her love is getting lesser as days pass.

Behind the scenes:
Jude Antony did exceptionally well in keeping the story simple and realistic.
Cinematography by Vinod Illamapally did many new experiments and is a visual treat with some awesome techniques never tried in malayalam movies.
Editing by Lijo Paul need to be specially mentioned, as it was blended nice with each moments.
Music is done by Shaan Rahman. From his entry to industry he has gifted beautiful songs one after the other and he continue to do so. Some lovely tracks worth listening.

About the Cast:
Nazriya Nazim as Pooja Mathew, the centre role did her best performance till date. All her love for Giri, tension, thoughts, emotions were spot on.
Nivin Pauly as Giri was perfect for the role. A mature macho delivering splendid performance.
Ranji Panicker as Dr.Mathew was not the best for the role. But the love of people towards him as  a director will keep his faults aside.
Aju Varghese as David was brilliant. For the first time he was not a sidekick for the hero but against it, did justice to his role.
Vinay Prasad as Rachel, did justice to her character.
Vinneth Sreenivasan as Dr.Prasad was brilliant and "the cunning boy" was spot on.
Lal Jose as Jacob Tharakan was another role which has brought out the good actor inside an awesome director.
All the other casts did well and no one made a dull performance.

Should You Watch:
A love story from a girls perspective, has been shown the best way. Now filthy dialogues, no double meaning lines, another movie that could be easily seen with family(Love stories now a days are hard to watch with). Colourful movie, awesome songs, brilliant acting, there are lot of things worth watching. Some lags here and there but never made ME boring to watch. Kudos to whole crew.
Cant get out the song "Kaatu Moolio Pranayam..." out of my head. I've been rhyming since i left outside theatre, and so was my friends. As always final decision is yours...!!! :D

My Rating: 4.5/5

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Movie Review: 1983

1983:

1983 is a family drama genre movie directed by Abrid Shine.

About the movie:

Rameshan(Nivin Pauly) is from a beautiful village Brahmamangalam, tells his story of love to cricket which just started from 1983 worldcup win of India. Rameshan and his friends are cricket crazy and the game was their part of living. Cricket gave him his childhood love Manjula(nikki Galrani). He and his gang Pappan(saiju Kurup), Babukuttan(Sanju), Shaji(Dinesh), Prahladan(Neeraj Madhav), Mantle Johny( Prajod), Basheer, Chandru, Varkey grows up playing all the tournaments and winning many. The parents of Rameshan thought he would become an engineer or doctor but he ends up doing nothing, but palying cricket and a pre degree fail. His Father Gopi Aashan(Joy Mathew) known as the best mechanic in place finally takes him to his shop and asks to continue his legacy. On the other hand, Rameshan looses his childhood love who believed he would find a good carrier and marry him, but he just went with his passion of cricket and concentrating in his love was a bit hard for him. Susheela(Srindha Ashab) becomes his life partner because of the compelling of his family and friends who is by the way the only person in India who does not know about Sachin Tendulkar. As life goes on with a boy to add up the family, Rameshan one day finds his son has passion for cricket. Unlike his father Rameshan now has a dream to make his son a cricket player, and he takes his son to different places and finds out what the cricket was outside his village. 

Behind the Scenes:

Abrid Shine with his directional debut sure made a true movie about cricket and showed justice with his script not adding much of any masala.

Cinematography by Pradeesh Varma kept it simple, some beautiful shots of village without much of gimmicks, cricket matches are taken brilliantly.

Editing by Manoj needs a special mention because it gave many nostalgic moments.

Music by Gopi Sundar is classic, especially "Olanjali Kuruvi" will rhyme in your mind for coming days. He sure is the best in business.

About the Cast:

Nivin Pauly as Rameshan was perfect for the role. His looks didn't make it easy to act as aged person, but character was perfect throughout.

Nikki Galrani as Manjula steals your heart with her looks, a special mention to the pretty princess who played her childhood who just has cute smile was lovable to watch.

Srindha Ashab as Susheela the only housewife who don't know Sachin did brilliant with her facial expressions.

jacob Greogory as Mumbai Sachin needs special mention, with all funny oneliners.

Anoop Menon as Vijay Menon did pure justice for his role.

Joe Mathew as Gopi Ashan was perfect for his role.

Saiju Kurup as Pappan,  Sanju as Babukuttan, Dinesh as Shaji, Neeraj Madhav as Prahladan, Prajod as Mantle Johny and all did justice with their roles.

Should You Watch:

In India cricket is a relegion and Sachin as the GOD, the movie "1983" is perfect for any cricket lover to watch and the best dedication for Sachin, we will surely miss him watching the movie. For others, yes this is a simple and elegant movie, best to see with your family. Without any villain the movie is a mind relaxation with beautiful songs and visualisation that gives us nostalgia. 

Kudos to the whole crew, and as usual the final decision is yours...!!! :D

My Rating: 4.5/5

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Movie Review: Salala Mobiles

Salala Mobiles:

Salala Mobiles is a comedy thriller genre by Sharath A Haridasan.

About the movie:
The movie narrates story of a lazy teenager Afsal(Dulquar) who is not interested in going for a job. His mother Safiyumma(Geetha) is much worried about this and seeks her brother to help him out, who works in salala. With his help Afsal starts a mobile shop with name "Salala Mobiles" which was the only favour asked by his uncle. He has a friend to accompany him with his new business, his childhood friend Binoy(Jacob Gregory). Now working in the shop, one day he meet a pretty girl Shahana who gets into bus from nearby bus stop. He straight away falls in love with her, but never has the courage to show his love. Meantime he goes to coimbatore to meet his friend Hari(Sreekumar) who offered him to give accessories at much cheaper rate, who later takes Afsal to his friend an inventor of mobile apps, Alagar Saamy(Santhanam). Alagar shows him some applications, which are not too viable. But yet he gets an app which Alagar presents him for free, which changed his life from there.

Behind the Movie:
Sharath A Haridasan has some directional skills. but the movie has some serious lags, not entertaining. Also in the script many one liners which failed in the way to be delivered.
Cinematography by Sateesh Kurup has nothing new to offer. Decent frames, colourful all over, overall it was good.
Music by Gopi Sundar was pretty good, songs are pretty nice, but BGM didn't blend perfectly.

About the Cast:
Dulquar Salman as a lazy teenager was ok, but didnt had any emotions to for all love and emotional scenes.

Nazriya Nazim kept her good looks but was emotionless most of the times.

Geetha as a mom had nothing much to do, but did her part.

Jacob Gregory with some one liners, failed to laugh audience. He could have done much better.

Santhanam was something different to see with his humour in tamil movies, definitely did not worked much here, but a decent acting. 

Totally the star cast was ok. But failed to impress with the kind of story movie has.

Should You Watch:
Salala mobiles was viewed mostly as a pairing of two good looking stars, but failed to impress in almost every part. Story is different, which has not been taken till now, but for an entertainment, don't know if this story was the best he got. Some good songs, good visuals are the best things in the movie.

Remebering Mamooka's "avante oru Mofillllu...."

and as usual the final decision is yours...!!!

My Rating: 2.5/5

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Movie Review: 5 Sundarikal

5 Sundarikal:

The movie is Malayalam romantic anthology film narrating the story of 5 different beautiful  women - mother, daughter, lover, wife and actress (wiki). Directional venture of 5 directors  Anwar Rasheed, Aashiq Abu, Sameer Thahir, Shyju Khalid and Amal Neerad.

About the movie:

5 sundarikal, the story of 5 different women, almost half an hour each tied together.

"Seethulakshmi"
The first directional venture of Cinematographer Shyju Khalid is adaption of M.Mukundan's story. Deals with the story of two children a boy and girl who wants to take a picture of both.
Starring Anika, Chethan, Guru Somasundaram doing fantastic jobs made it brilliant and one of the best in all.
My Rating: 5/5

"Esha"
The second one by Sameer thahir is a fun filled love story between two strangers who meet in unusual circumstances.
Starring Isha Sharvani, Nivin Pauly did a brilliant job.
My Rating: 4.25/5

"Gauri"
Aashiq Abu's movie tells the story of a husband and wife leaving away from their parents due to lack of support because of their love marriage.
Starring Kavya Madhavan, Biju Menon, Tini Tom, Rimi Tomy, Shine Tom Chacko is a differently narrated movie with a real different climax.
My Rating: 4/5

"Kullante Bharya"
Directed by Amal Neerad is adapted from Chinese short story narrates a dwarf husband and a normal women's story. The story shows the reflection of society's mentality which are too narrow minded.
Starring Reenu Mathews, Dulquer Salman, Muthumani, Jinu Ben was heart touching with some brilliant camera works too.
My Rating: 4.75/5

"Aami"
Directed by Anwar Rasheed tells the power of a good and strong husband wife relation and some things happening in one night.
Starring Asmitha Sood,Fahadh Faasil, Honey Rose, Chemban Vinod Jose, Vinayakan was the most stylish movie and with Amal Neerad's Cinematography is the most colourful one of all.
My Rating: 4.5/5

The casting of all movies were brilliant and spot on with their roles, Kudos to all.
Music by Gopi Sundar, Bijibal, Prashant Pillai, Yakzan Gary Pereira were brilliant and made the movie worth watch throughout with beautiful BG scores and some Beautiful songs to add on.
Cinematography Amal Neerad, Shyju Khalid, Rajeev Ravi, Ranadive, Alby were brilliant and apt for the situations of each one.
Editing by Vivek Harshan was truthful as needed.

Should You Watch:
Rather than an entertainer the movie was a brave and big attempt regardless of Box office Stuffs lead by 5 friends and their crew. Beautiful 5 short movies tied together to be one good movie. Not a big entertainer but surely a pretty one to watch. Some moments will touch our heart and some questions about the mentality of society and some conveyed messages, I personally loved it and Kudos to Amal Neerad Production (ANP) for such a brave production.
And as usual the final decision is yours.

My All-over Rating: 4.5/5

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Movie Review: ABCD - American Born Confused Desi

ABCD:

ABCD- American Born Confused Desi is the second venture of Martin Prakkat, with Dulquer Salmaan leading the cast was an awaited movie this year.

About the movie:Two young Chaps Johns (Dulquer) and Korah (Jacob Gregory) leading their life with their parents money partying and tripping without any control. Both are very good trouble makers too and very often they end up in jail. Usually they get out when Isaac John (Laloo Aalex) father of Johns comes and get bailed out. But once they cross their limit and get into serious trouble that they cannot stay in U.S any more. They have to leave their home town now and Issace comes with the idea of making them go to India. With no other option they come to Kochi just for spending their vacation time but coming to kerala they find it was actually a set-up by Issac for making them learn the value of money they spend recklessly and teach them to lead a better life. The story develops to different view based on the politics and media ruling kerala, where it further tells the changes in the life of these two American Born Confused Desis.

Martin Prakkat as director did an ok job, but still the directional part Confused me whether it was in full control, because of his directional debut which was much better than this.
Sooraj-Neeraj team with the script makes a hype of having something, but really didn't end as expected.
Screenplay by Martin and Sooraj-Neera, did ok but had never kept the expectation.
Jomon T John as Cinematographer did his part well, and kept the job perfect given to him.
Editing by Donmax was also best the movie could have.
Music by Gopi Sundar was the best attraction of the film as it was spot on with best timings and some good songs to add on.

About the Cast:
Dulquer Salmaan into his 4th movie definitely played his part well and is improving his skills in every movie, surely a trendy actor with high language skills which was apt for the movie.
Jacob Gregory form "akkarakazchakal" makes a really American Born Confused desi in the movie.
Aparna Gopinath as Madhumitha did well with her performance.
Tovino Thomas as Akhilesh Varma was good and definitely a new one is added to the new generation actors.
Lalu Alex as Issac did his part good as usual.
Vijayaraghavan as Ravi Varma played his part well too.
Sreekumar as Anglo-Indian was fun to watch on screen.
Savannah Schechter as Dulquar's girlfriend in guest appearance didn't had much, but was still ok.
Nawas Kalabhavan, Thampi Antony and many others had small roles and kept it moving.
Totally the main star cast was big, but the utilization of this star cast was not in the perfect way.

Should You Watch:
A movie is saw with lots of expectation never impressed me personally, but a non boring movie from start to end and with some good one liners kept it moving. Language in the movie could have been more censored but looks like its the current trend. A movie with nothing as social relevance but gives us some questions needed to be answered. A total time pass movie with good Camera works and best BG score keeps us moving and a real unexpected and unused climax which may or may not impress you, its upto you. All over i saw a lot of confused desis leaving the theatre. 
And as always the final decision is yours.

My Rating: 3.5/5

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Movie Review: Thank You

Thank you:

V.K.Prakash with his 3rd movie "thank you is a suspense thriller genre one based on social issues against women harassment.

About the movie:
The story is about a person who comes in trivandrum with some specific purposes. He travels from place to place and creates problem by threatening about police that he has planned for a series of blasts around the city. The police is searching for this "mysterious man" and media are utilizing this for their profit on the other hand. The movie slowly reveals the reasons behind the mysteries of this mysterious man. The film is goes in a trilling way towards the climax. 
V.K.P has always experimented with different genre, style and everything, some of them was not the best but this was very different and a social relevant subject surely did great.
Arun lal's story was very much relevant with the current social systems have left us with many questions to answer.
Cinematographer Aravind Krishna has shown the beauty within in trivandrum city and with sorts of experiments in camera works has done well.
Babu Rathnam Uthara with editing kept it perfect.
Music by Bijilal was impressive and the songs are pretty good to hear.

About the Cast:
Jayasurya has been impressive all through the year with some brilliant performances and he has continued the saga.
Sethu as commissioner was impressive with his fast language skills and tactical officer he was spot on.
Kailash as SI didnt had much of a part but kept it realistic.
Honey Rose as Jayan's wife played her part well.
Tini Tom, Mukundan, Saiju Kurup, Sudheer Karamana, Mridul, Aishwayra Devan and many others played their part well.
The movie was very much hero centered and did not had much space for other actors to do much, everyone kept their part of role well and casting was spot on.

Should you Watch:
Another experiment from V.K.P with a strong, bold and social relevant story from Arun lal the movie ends asking a lot of questions to the community and the views of each person right now about the social issues like harassment towards women and many other things. The film lack entertainment and is dry throughout. But surely will make us guessing throughout the movie and never gets off the pace. Movie surely is must watch to all because we need to think about the questions movie raises in the end. Watch it for a good script, nothing else. and don't see it if you are in a mood for comedy and masala entertainments. I loved this movie for it was true and bold. And as usual the final decision is yours.

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Movie Review: Left Right Left

Left Right Left:

Arun Kumar Aravind, Murali Gopi team is back with Left Right Right- Revolution is homemade is a social drama and best of its kind.

About the movie:
The movie deals with story of few people such as SI K.P.Jayan (Indrajith), Roy Joseph (Murali Gopi) a leftist, Anitha(Lena) his wife, Jennifer (Remya Nambeeshan) a nurse and many others who face lot of problems in their life and somehow deals with it by their own way. Roy joseph so called "cheguvera Roy" by his friends is a true heart leftist. He is unhappy about the way of communism in the party but self consoled because of his incapability and limits but always try his best to make it corruption free the way he can. Anitha his wife working guest lecturer for journalism is the best support for him. She has lot of responsibilities to do and is always worried about her husband. Sub Inspector Jayan is a very rude police officer who is corrupted and a very angry man but is very sentimental when it comes to his family.He lives with his mother upstairs of Roy's home. He has a reason to live there. That is Anitha, Roy's wife looks like his elder sister, who died when he was small because the family could not pay for her treatment at the right time. This incident also ruined his childhood as he comes to a conclusion that, to live properly either you should be a police officer or you should have plenty of money. Also he loves a nurse named Jennifer who also resembles someone he cannot forget from his childhood memories.Jennifer is married and has a child and is trying to get out of marriage because her husband's abuse towards her and child. She needs a man's help and she acts as if she loves him for her own interests. One day two devotees of party (played by Sudheer Karamana and Sreejith Ravi) who are also angry with going on corruption and wants change in the party who also started a new Newspaper named "The Communist" finds a big corruption done by the leader Sahadevan. He is very much powerful leaderwho never allows someone to stand in his way or the party. Roy knows it would be suicidal to go against him and seeks the help of SR the other leader of Left party who Roy has a bit faith left. He assure to help him by raising the issue by his way. After the news been printed in the paper the things turn dramatically and from there we could see the black side of Red flagged party and how they deals with their own members if they raise their voice against them.

 In the recent past there has been many movies about the politics but i would say Arun Kumar Aravindh has kept it a step ahead of all.
Murali Gopi with a breath taking script has amazed me and truly he will raise his fathers name for sure. Lets hope the story of the movie doesn't make controversies when our Left leaders see it.
Cinematography buy Shehnad Jalaal has been spot on for the way the story should be narrated.
Editing by Arun Kumar was brilliant and spot on.
Music by Gopi Sundar was perfect to tell and the songs were very dramatic and meaningful and truly kept a communist thinking.

About the Cast:
Indrajith as S.I. Jayan has done his part brilliant as usual and he keeps on amazing me doing different roles in brilliant manner.
Murali Gopi as Roy Joseph again was brilliant and the way he presents his role really reminds us of his legendary father.
Lena as Anitha made her role beautiful and realistic and she proves how versatile she is.
Remya Nambeesan as Jennifer kept her role brilliant and has a negative touch but still will love her.
Sethulakshmi as Jayan's mother with her dialectic ways will make us laugh hard.
Vijayaraghavan as SR kept it spot on to the role.
Hareesh Peradi as Sahadevan was more of a surprise with his portrayal. He sure is actor needed to be more exposed.
Sudheer Karamana and Sreejith Ravi also made their role out standing.
Jagadish, Suraj, Mamookoya, Baiju, Saiju Kurup, Anusree and many others with small and decent roles played their part well and will have to give credit to the casting of the movie because it is spot on.

Should You Watch:
Watching the movie i could not say of the script of the movie is communist or anti communist, whatever the movie sure can be related to real life and current affairs in kerala politics for sure. The movie may not be fun filled but a true communist movie showing the real cruelty behind the smiling faces of our political leaders and surely questions the system of left atheists and their way of governance. The movie is a must watch for left believers. Sure a film watchable with family and needed to be watched by young bloods who give their life for politicians and leaders. A true and Bold Movie and relevant one. The only drawback i think is the drag in the second half which has few entertainment scenes. Kudos to all the crew behind the movie and the words "Revolution is Homemade" is stiffened and shown in the best way.

 My Rating: 4.5/5

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