Loud Speaker

Cast: Mammootty, Renjith

Direction: Jayaraj

The movie offers Mammootty an excellent chance to tide over the recent mimicry, child-play movies and characterisations with a solid role of uneducated Mike Philippose, a barefooted simpleton who lands in the city, armoured with his loud voice, opinions and dazzling wit to stand up with the different level of etiquette's he find in the flats of the city. His arrival is as a kidney donor to ailing Anand Menon, an astrophysicist who returned to his home nation after working in US for the last forty six years. A dejected man who wants to run away from his memories, Menon is turned into the reverse track by Mike, who lives with his memories and snobs about his deceased father and about the silent hamlet of Thopramkudy.

The movie packs a lot of characters like the old man (Janardhanan) in legal tussle with his children, the fighting couple (Kalpana and Reghu) who even doesn't like to see face to face, a secretary of the flat residents (Jagathy) who only has a dog for his company, a group of loud bachelors and a kid who turns a brat, left alone and away from her parents. Some of these laudable characteristics are balanced by weak characters, and superficial emotions but the central character of Mike infuses in all of them the spirit of genuine humanness and to live with temperamental ease.

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Impressive and light-hearted

With no conventional story and is more character-driven, National award winning director Jayaraj's new film ‘Loudspeaker’ is a simple movie with its heart exactly at the right place. Decorated with no special comedy tracks or even a traditional romance, the first screenplay from the director has that inherent goodness that speaks volumes of life in a go.

Loud Speaker

Rithu

Cast: Nishan, Rima, Asif Ali

Direction: Shyamaprasad

Music: Rahul Raj

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The movie tells the story of three childhood friends Sarath, Varsha and Sunny who dreams about making it big in their own ways . However when they reunite for a new IT firm after drifting apart for a short while , they realize that the peculiar chemistry that they had between themselves has vanished .The associated revelations about the hideouts in their personalities and irretrievable depths of their friendship proves the focus of the movie . Trying to catchup with what they have lost in between time and space , Sharath realises that it is finally a day to call himself out of their memories and dreams and to start afresh. Shyamaprasad has given a mature unhurried treatment to the theme that comes out of a well flushed up scriptlines by Joshua newton,armed with sensitive dialogues and emotional subtexts. With references to sexual freedom, hypocrisy and gay life, this could well be a welcome rebellion against the shackles of formula that had been with the Mollywood cinema for quite some time .There is not much an indifference when narrating these subtexts as they never seems much imposed upon the characters .

And in the little downside the characters could have more gelled well ,if it would have avoided the stereotype of flirting females working in IT sector .Also is the socialist tirade that sprouts up in intervals about the capitalist SEZ and IT parks constructed on poor man's ' lands looting them for being sincere . Few dialogues in certain scenes also remain dramatic and pointless and could have been trimmed .

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Rithu - Refreshing

Agnisakshy, Akalae, Ore kadal ,.. and now Rithu'' , Director shyamaprasad is once again proving that he is a sensitive filmmaker without prejudices , always aiming to find the best out of the themes that he embarks upon, His former movies were all based on famous literary works , but this time his belief in the journo tuned scriptwriter Joshua Newton has really paid off...

Daddy Cool

Banner: Ananya films

Cast: Mammootty, Richa Pallod, Bijumenon, Ashish Vidyarthy, Vijayaraghavan, Raadhika, Saikumar

Direction: Aashiq Abu

Production: Alwin Antony

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The movie doesn't have that multi layered story, but is a simple tale about Antony Simon, a laid back officer in the crime Branch, who is more interested in spending time with his son, watching cricket on television. He is often a ridicule for his easy going attitude, even for his wife Annie who is much worried about Antony's languorous attitudes, which even fetch him a suspension. But for his son Adi, Antony is the super hero officer, who is into any dashing thrills and commotion at any given moment. He projects it to his friends and expects his daddy to fulfill his aspirations. One night after a movie, they happen to save the international cricketer Srikanth from the attack of a gang of goons thereby igniting further troubles. But the father - son duo are ultimately forced to prove themselves at a point, when everything is going beyond their control into a terribly wrong path.

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This Daddy is Cool and 'stylish'

Let's admit it.....Films can be made watchable, even though they does not offer a genuine strong storyline. ‘Daddy Cool’ is one such effort from the debutante Aashiq Abu planned with trendy costumes, bright colours and amazing visuals. Had it been decorated with a thick screenplay, it would have ended up as an eminently watchable fare. For now, it has the chic packaging, peppy songs and racy first half.

Calendar

Cast: Prithviraj, Navya Nair, Sarina Wahab ,Jagadheesh, Jagathy, Vijayaraghavan

Direction: Mahesh

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The movie from the actor turned director Mahesh,has a stellar star cast with Prithviraj, Navya Nair,Mukesh and yesteryear heartthrob Zarina Wahab donning the pivotal roles .Calender '' has Zarina as a college lecturer Thankom George,a lady widowed at an younger age ,who desisted to remarry, to take care of her daughter .Building her whole world around her and sharing an intense relation with her daughter, Kochurani ,Thankom is not even able to sleep one night without her. Into the life of Kochurani ,who is now at college arrives Sojappan, a fun-loving ,businessman,who is but a school dropout.Through their mutual friend Manjoorana(Jagathy),sojappan makes a proposal ,but Thankaom tries to discourage him from the relation , as she doesn't like to get separated from her daughter .

Three years after, in another town ,the viewers witness Dr.RoyPhilip (mukesh), a medical officer in Manjooran's hospital ,who starts a liking for kochuRani. Again the same problem of possessiveness between the mother and daughter arises , which together with some mysteries associated with their past ,builds up the tension that finally explodes between Thankom and Kochurani.

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Calendar - is a watchable fare

Calender is all about feelings. Mostly 'real emotions,' about the psyche of a single mother ,who hates to face loneliness.And when the handpicked moments essaying the obsession between the mother and her daughter ,fails to relate with the viewers who resist to laugh and cry with the characters ,the movie turns overly melo- dramatic with out the needed intensity.

Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonuu

Cast: Rajasenan, Sitharaa. Jagathy Sreekumar, Kalpana, Mukesh, Indrans, Sindhumenon, Janett, Drishya, Sumithra

Direction: Rajasenan

Music: M Jayachandran-Rajeev Alumkal

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Thampi is a postmaster leading a happy life with his wife Lisamma(Sithara) and their three children. In short but regular flashbacks, we are shown Chandru's father, Sachidanandan Thampi (Sivaji Guruvayoor), a retired IG who throws him out of the house, as he chose to marry Lisamma, a christsian girl with cardiac ailment. And puts a garland on Chandru's photograph hanging on the wall, to consider him dead.

But Chandru who always loves and respect his father always longs for a day, when they reunites with his father and family consisting of his younger brother Rajamohan Thampi(Rehman) and his wife (Sindhu Menon).

Lisamma has undergone an open-heart surgery after her marriage with Chandru and the later is secretly repaying the debts although it is accumulating day after day. He always makes way for his family and children to live in better conditions which also create him further financial problems. Chandru who is respected by everyone in his office is often helped by many among them, especially by Thankachan (Jagathy) who often finds out odd ideas to clear off the debts. Finally Chandru decides to get to Dubai with the help of his old friend G K (Mukesh), now well settled at Dubai. He finds a good job there and gradually clear off his debts, but never realises that fate was holding something different for him, a varied way for his family to reunite with his father, who was never ready to forgive him.

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Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonuu - Another emotional drama

Coming from the maker of family films, ‘Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu’, is an emotional tearjerker which move in through well sketched out regular routes. The movie which tells the story of a virtuous man who lives devotedly to prove himself to be a good son, husband and father, has the director himself playing the role of the protogonist, Chandra Mohan Thampi.

Puthiya Mugham

Cast: Prithviraj, Bala, Meera Nandhan, Priyamani

Direction: Deepan

Production: Anil Mathew, Murugan

Music: Deepak Dev

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The movie's story is not much a refreshing stuff, once again the regular in the good triumphs over evil mould. Prithviraj is Krishana Kumar alias Kichan, a Brahmin boy bred in typical traditional modest backgrounds at Kalppathy. He, with an extra ordinary potential in music and in playing mridangam is living a quiet life teaching music to children and enjoying his love life with Sreedevi (Meera Nandhan), the daughter of their family friend for which they have the blessing of the elders.

Kichan joins a college in the city for pursuing his engineering degree. From the very first day he becomes the soul mate of his fellow students due to his mastery in playing music, which also makes him in the hit list of the baddies in the college headed by Sudhi (Bala), the youngest of the real estate mafia brothers in the city. Moreover Sudhi's fiancee Anjana (Priyamani) also develops an interest in his friendship, which many misunderstands as love. This leads to much suffering for Kichan from the hands of Sudhi and his gang whose continuous torture leaves him a wreck. Forced to step out of the college due to the intense thrashes, Kichan is taken for psychiatric treatments, but decides to take on the villains on his comeback trail.

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Puthiya Mukham - is an engrossing fare

For all those from the young generation who are lamenting about the lack of well made mass masala entertainers in Mollywood movies, this is the answer. A movie about campus violence and family ties, with breathtaking visuals and foreign shot songs, a killer sound track, stunning action sequences and ofcourse, the most appealing hero from the younger lot Prithviraj.

Pattanathil Bhootham

Cast: Mammootty, Kavya Madhavan

Direction: Johnny Antony

Music: Shan Rahman

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As expected the movie has a good hearted genie, who is trapped by a wicked magician (Pitamagan Mahadevan) who uses him to make money through criminal ways. Accidentally rescued by a group of estranged kids trapped and held hostage in a circus troupe, the genie takes the form of their Jimmy Uncle (Mammootty). And to appease them, he adds a ''gottie'' on his chin, dress himself in branded shoes and attires and takes a childish voice. Meanwhile, Jimmy, his prototype, a multi-talented daring circus artist, is in jail for a murder of the troupe owner Philippose, the incident with which he hardly have any connection.

The daughter of Philppose, Ancy (Kavya Madhavan ), who comes back to inherit her paternal property hates Jimmy and the children who are supporting him. The “Bhootham” with alien powers are Jimmy, and his shildren's final chance to escape from the troubles they are presently in. How the friendly ''Kutty Chatthan'' manages to clear off himself and the children from their enemies and menaces, are the threads for the unlimited fun that follows.

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Funny, but predictable

Johny Antony's effects adventure ‘Ee Pattanathil Bhootham’ starts off 'sweetly' enough with some awesome shot and graded shots; But once you realise that this is much more a kids' film that isn't even trying to be anything else, the unspectacular first half is the only thing that works for seniors.

Vellathooval

Cast: Ranjith Menon, Nithya, Lalu Alex, Jagathy, Ganeesh, Revathy, Seema, Swetha Menon

Direction: IV Sasi

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An immature gal, painstakingly childish in her mannerisms, flee from her house unable to combat her home bred problems, with one of her classmate living in the house next door. Within hours, their voyage turns a nightmare, with the couple ending up as murderers. - This is the plot of ‘Vellathooval’ -which may seem inspiring for most. But unlike the neighbouring Kollywood filmmakers, even our veteran seems to be handicapped while handling potential subjects. With inconsistent scripts, and dialogues by John Paul and shoddy unimaginative direction from I V Sasi, the movie turns off- track from the word ''go'' and ends up as mayhem.

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Vellathooval hardly flies

I wonder what veteran director I V Sasi was thinking when he made his latest movie – ‘Vellathooval’- a teenage drama. Was it made as a spoof to his earlier hundred odd remarkable films like ‘Ina’ and Kaanamarayathu? Only he knows the answer.

Doctor Patient

Cast: Jayasuriya, Radha Varma, Mukesh, Jagathy, Bijukuttan, Anoopchandran, Suraj Venjaramoodu

Direction: Viswananathan

Music: Bennet-Vithraag

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The story of ‘Dr Patient’, as the title itself suggests, is set against a mental hospital to which young and savvy Ruben Isaac (Jayasuriya) comes to work as a doctor. A doctor who had been successful with his patients at his Ooty sanatorium, he employs humanitarian considerations to emerge the favourite of “his patients”, whom he calls as his “clients”.

Rakhi Devadas(Radha Varma) with a hospital management degree from U.S is the Managing director of this hospital. Her strict ways in dealing with patients often creates clashes with the new doctor. Ruben Isaac, meanwhile is brimming with new thoughts and unconventional ideas, which he implements in the hospital. He shows love and care and offers more freedom to the inmates which itself invites much criticism from the M.D. The movie turns more than funny with the arrival of another person (Mukesh), claiming that he is the original doctor.

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An obnoxious watch

It's scary to think that a director who make an appreciably good endeavour in his debut movie ‘Out Of Syllabus’ can make a comeback with such a scary silly one, in his second coming. Though you may not expect a great film, you will expect at least a warm, nicely made one. But here, director Viswananathan is back with this silly made movie, Dr. Patient, all about madness.

Bhramaram

Cast: Mohanlal, Bhoomika, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Suresh Menon Jayalakshmi, Madan Babu, Baby Niveditha and V.G. Murali Krishnan

Direction: Blessy

Production: Raju Mallyath, Zulfikar

Music: Mohan Sithara

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The movie is built around Jose alias Shivan Kutty, who is roaming around in an auto around Coimbatore to locate an address, on the same day the city is shell shocked with multiple blasts. This man of mystery finally arrive at the apartment of his schoolmate Unni, now a busy, successful share broker who is having a happy life with his wife Latha and kids. The intruder remains in the flat for a couple of days making merry with the kids, but within days Unni and his closest friend Alex, are made to realise that the man in their flat have come with an agenda, an after math of an incident that happened long back in their lives. What follows is an intriguing, and engaging road movie made in the rarest of the turfs and backdrops seen on Mollywood cinema.

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Lal, Blessy excels

A simple story, great performances, well fleshed out characters, play of emotions and technical finesse. Blessy bounces back with flare in his new film ‘Bhramaram’ which is indeed a worthy watch for all the connoisseurs of good, contentful cinema.

Ivar Vivahitharayal

Banner: Kunjuveettil productions

Cast: Jayasuriya, Navya Nair, Samvrutha, Bhama, Sai Kumar, Siddique, Devan, Nedumudi Venu, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Suresh Krishna, Anoop Menon, Rekha, Kala Ranjini, Mallika Sukumaran, Manian Pillai Raju, Suresh Kumar, Pradeep Prabhakar

Direction: Saji Surendran

Production: S. Gopakumar

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The movie has Jayasuriya as Vivek Ananthan (Jayasuriya), an MBA student who is throwing all petty tantrums to get married at the earliest. Being the only son of a lawyer-couple(played by Siddique and Rekha)living separately in adjacent apartments, he finds it increasingly difficult to convince them but some how he manages to get them agreed to get his name listed in the matrimony services. Kavya, an ambitious hot tongued radio jockey, who has a problem with her star sings and has just lost her job in an FM, is there by forced to get herself into marriage with Vivek. The movie follows to tells the fate of two immensely immature souls, who has to fight it out to discover the meaning of family and consideration between themselves. Adding to their issues are also depicted the envy and doubts that arise in Kavya over her husband's very free relationships with, his friends from childhood including Tresa played by Samvrutha Sunil)

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Too much preaching about family, ties and values can seldom go to your head. That seems to be the fundamental problem of debutante Saji Surendran's movie ‘Ivar Vivahitharaayal’ where nothing new is offered in terms of narrative or presentation

Ivar Vivahitharayal is not a compelling watch

Passenger

Banner: Vijay Combines

Cast: Sreenivasan, Dileep, Mamtha, Lakshmi Sharma, athathy Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu, Sivaji Guruvayoor, Sona Nair, Ruby

Direction: Renjith Shankar

Production: S P Pillai, Sankaran Kutty

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The movie which is also scripted by the director tells the happenings in the life of three persons in a span of three days. Sathyanath, working in a pharmaceutical company, is a committed middle class man living with his simple dreams and desires. His routine includes daily to and fro travel on train from Nellayi to Ernakulam south, with his bunch of friends working in various firm in the city. A sharp tongued citizen with good observations and responsibility, he has a peculiar habit of taking a short sleep for half an hour amidst his travel schedule.

Adv. Nandan Menon , a social activist is hell bend of evacuating a multinational company from the shores of Maranattukara, which is planning to displace thousands from the land for carrying on with their mineral sand mining activities. He is running cases pleading adequate govt. intervention in countering this sand mafia. He is adequately supported in this venture by his wife and visual media journalist, Anuradha, who is presently engaged in exposing the nexus between home minister Thomas Chacko and the foreign companies.

On the same night Sathynathan, late from his work, catches a different train, remains asleep for long and meet Nandhan Menon in the train. Anuradha, who is now chased by the goons of the minister, also gets alleged for a murder. Sathyanathan who was perfect stranger for the couple, now decides to do his share to help his new find friend who is doing good for the society. The movie then takes the shape of an edge of the set thriller, and races ahead to an indulging finale.

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A well executed thriller

Currency

Banner: Indostar Movie Magic

Cast: Jayasuriya, Mukesh, Kalabhavan Mani, Meera Nandhan

Direction: Swathy Bhaskar

Music: Siddharth Bipin

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The movie traces the journey of Keshu, the only son of Subhadramma, a school drop-out, who slowly and gradually takes to the world of crime. An introvert, he is working for a minuscule salary in a Photostat store, owned by Indrapalan (Suraj Venjaaramoodu), a clerical staff in the RTO office. Keshu, who doesn’t have any friends, is madly after Rose (Meera Nandhan), a sales girl in the nearby boutique. Other than working at the store and roaming quietly after Rose, he often takes Photostat copies of currency notes and finish working on them with meticulous precision, but fears to spend them. One day he happens to meet Daany D,souza,(Mukesh) an over-ambitious Anglo Indian,  who always aspires  to make the right moves to get that big break in life. He realizes the competence of Keshu in creating fake currencies and forces him to continue with his act, for emerging successful beings in life. And how Keshu falls into this pits of no-return, forms the rest of the story.

Swathy Bhaskar's debut venture initially has its heart at the right place and that's made abundantly clear 30 minutes into the film. After a well engaging first hour. its wafer thin storyline gets repetitive. There's not much movement in the story after a point and the proceedings get prolonged and tedious. The director proves himself as an accomplished storyteller in several individualistic scenes, mostly in the first half. But the screenplay isn't foolproof with romantic track ending up as the weakest link in the enterprise, with Jayasurya and Meea Nandhan sharing zero chemistry in the sequences.

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Currency - is a different experience

Bhagyadevatha

Cast: Jayaram, Kanika, including Nedumudi Venu, Inncoent, Mamukoya, Venu Nagavally, K P A C Lalitha

Direction: Sathyan Anthikkad

Production: Kalasangham

Music: Illayaraja

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Jayaram plays Benny, a diploma holder, who runs the franchisee of a local cable TV channel in a kuttanad village. After the death of his father, he had to shoulder the responsibilities of his large family consisting of his mother, grandmother  and two sisters. A little bit ambitious, Benny thinks of varied  ways to make it big, with short cuts. According to the advice of Sadanandan, a tourist guide and Benny's friend, he  decides to marry Daisy,  with the belief that he can raise substantial amounts as dowry, with which he can  buy a fishing boat. He gives advance for the boat but after the marriage, he is totally disappointed  as Daisy 's father Anto fails to get the promised amount at the right time from the bank.  Benny's dreams get a severe blow and as a result he throws away his wife and engage into bad words with her father. But Benny suddenly fall prey of wrong doings as Daisy wins an amount of two crores in a lottery .

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'Bhagya Devatha' is a good watch. Altogether ''Bhagya Devatha'' is a perfect prescription for the families of the state, who always loved to enjoy the sathyan stamp of quality narratives.

Banaras

Cast: Vineeth, Kavya Madhavan, Navya Nair, Nedumudi Venu, Harisree Ashokan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suresh Krishna, Devan, Anoop Chandran, Kalaranjini, Urmila Unni

Direction: Nemom Pushparaj

Production: M.R. Nair

Music: M. Jayachandran

Navya, Vineeth excel in Banaras

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With a highly predictable story lines and with no engaging twists, the movie offers very little surprises to avoid a cold feet. The movie is all about Hari (Vineeth), a theatre activist who moves out of his village leaving his childhood sweet heart Devu (Navya), to secure his M. Phil degree on North Indian dances from the famous Banaras Hindu University. More than his fancy for continuing his studies with TBHU, Hari wants to unearth the details about his mother who died in the holy city when he was a child.

Hari by circumstances is forced to become a Saviour and protector of a beauty named Amritha (Kavya Madhavan), a gifted dancer who is also studying in the same University. The movie goes on to tell the impact of these short acquaintances of Hari with the half Malayalee girl, which takes a toll on the life of the young man.

Samastha Keralam PO

Cast:	Jayaram, Jagathy, Jagashdeesh, Janardhanan, Suraj Venjaaramoodu, Salimkumar, Kalabhavan
Direction:	Bibin Prabhakar
Music:	M Jayachandan

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"An average watch"

The movie has Jayaram as Prabhakaran (Jayaram), a hardcore Gandhian, who is also a former Panchayat member of a remote village called Thonoorkkara. He has devised his own ways of protesting against the corrupt practices followed by Avarachan and co, who is ruling the Panchayath. Though he lives in a house owned by his uncle and is finding it difficult to manage his state of financial affairs, he is a staunch advocate of principles in every little steps, he takes. The movie offers many plot divergences, that comes in the form of marriage of his adopted sister Radhika, arrival of his cousin Renjini and a short mistaken love affair, and then the routine muscleman crook from Mumbai for providing  a little fisticuffs and the crude plots of all other bad souls in the village to corner this virtuous conscientious protagonist. And as expected the movie calls the final shot when Prabhakaran emerges the winner after several tests of his patience, honesty and sincerity.

The movie does make an engaging opening with Prabhakaran presenting his village and its interesting stock characters including Chandy (Jagadheesh), President Avarachan's nephew who follow his uncle's footsteps. Subramanian (Salimkumar), who works in Prabhakaran's book stall Osharam Abdu (Suraj Venjaarmoodu), a miserly auto driver,  Reghu (Kalabhavan Prajod), who  works in a milk society and, Mao Mohanan, a Maoist who always dreams of the arrival of  revolution. The movie rushes past the interval, lags with usual sentiments track for a while, falling into the pits of conventional drama and progresses into a leisurely climax. The problem with the movie is the petty regular, but predictable storyline by K Gireesh Kumar, who has sprinkled some interesting dialogues all over, but fails to present any more surprises to the viewers.

2 Harihar Nagar

Cast: Mukesh, Jagadheesh, Lakshmi Rai, Ashokan and Siddhique

Direction: Lal

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"It’s a fun train"

‘To Harihar Nagar’ definitely offers rib tickling comedy and delightful watch from the word goes, with apt mixing up of inexhaustible laughter and few moods of seriousness at intervals. The film starts with the three lead players Mahadevan, Appukuttan, Govindan Kutty  now well settled in various business enterprises in Gulf and Bangalore,  coming together to celebrate the betrothal of the fourth in their group, Thomas Kutty. Govindan Kutty is now a successful builder while Mahadevan is a new age personality development guru, teaching people to regain confidence and success, though he is very unsuccessful with his own life. Appukuttan is a dentist now, but have little change in his regular idiotic senseless dialogues. They decide to ignite their youthful mischief and revert to their days of hectic activity, at least for the ten days they have got, away from their families. In the Govindan Kutty's villa where they had been hatching plans to woo girls ten years ago, they regroup and decide to pull pranks. As usual, they are enamored by the charms of a neighbouring beauty Maya, a bar singer. The four are immediately into everything to please her which lands them into further troubles.

Red Chillies

Cast : Mohanlal

Direction : Shaji Kailas

Production : Ranjith Rajaputra

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"Less 'Hot' But A Sure "Hit"

Essentially a murder mystery, the film has Mohanlal as OMR (a contraction of Oyyarath Madathil Ramanathan or is it that of catchphrase 'Onnum Marakkilla Rama''?), a tough and shrewd NRI business magnet who is well settled with his business firms and enemies, all across the Middle East and Singapore. He also runs an FM station 919.1 - OMR FM, which is based in Kochi. All the nine leading jockeys (RJ's) of the FM station are madly in love with this high flying businessman, whom they have never met in person. On New Year's Eve, OMR promises his jockeys that he would come over to meet them and reveal something to one of them. And the jockeys who are more than happy go around partying, dancing, disobeying traffic rules and creating panic but finds at the receiving end of all horrors, with one gigolo dead in their house. The very next morning also announces a hit and run case, presumably by the same Prado of the jockeys, killing ten workers who were on a round the clock agitation in front of a factory, including their leader Maani Varghese. The girls with a gang rape case and killing of almost a dozen people due to their displeasing manners, flee the spot .But as the police led by Commissioner Vyasan and Mani's IPS's son, Stalin track the car, the business baron OMR is forced to crash land in his home country with his own cheer girls, to save his other staff from a tricky plot that is aimed at him. He takes on the entire system single handedly, sometimes becoming an advocate, often a business tycoon and even the deity of a village.

Colours

Banner:	Sunitha Productions.
Cast:	Dileep, Roma, Cochin Haneefa, Sadhique, Venkat Bose, Innocent, Jayakrishnan, Maya Viswanath
Direction:	Raj Babu
Production:	M Mani
Music:	Suresh Peters

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"Not much color in this flick"

The movie set in a military camp at Coonoor revolves around military doctor Lt.Colonal Dr Rajalekshmy (Sharanya) and her two daughters-Pinky and Pooja. Rajalekshmy has a special consideration for Pooja who is obedient and docile, working as a school teacher. While her younger daughter Pinky (Roma)is a tomboyish ,bubbly girl who roams around playing pranks on the villagers and shooting her popular television programme 'Colours' modeled after the hits 'Bakra and Tharikida'. Though she is adventurous and bold, she shares a very special relation with Pooja (Bhama) and her grandpa Pushkaran Pillai (Innocent).

Pinky locally called as ''Pankan'' has a group of guys always in her disposal including cameraman Rahul who is in love with her. And when Navy officer Lt Commander Sanjaynath arrives to Coonoor, locking horns with Pinky from the very first day, every one finds him as a way to control the mindless maneuvers of Pinky, which gradually leads them into falling in love. But the movie has an array of subplots, the most prominent being the fraudulent act of smuggling costly medicines from hospital store by some of Rajalekshmi’s subordinates , which leads into further tensions in her family. Then there are the plans of elders to marry off Pooja to Sanjay, even when he is in love with Pinky. And the worst of the subplots is that involving the character played by Harishree Ashokan and his father in-law - a lunatic played by Cochin Haneefa, which falls well below buffoonery.

Chembada

Cast:	Kalabhavan Mani, Aravind, Anu Anand, Sonu, Abu Salim, John Jacob, Raju S Nair, Ronson
Direction:	Robin Thirumala
Music:	Robin Thirumala

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"'Red Army’ is armed with boredom"

Chembada’ meaning ‘Red Army' is the name of the music band in the movie who tour far off places in search of popularity. The troop becomes much popular soon after the arrival of Manu, a young singer who migrates from a lone village to the city with his own agendas. Apart from music, the troop members are also interested in cleaning off the menaces from the society, through their own ways.