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Saturday, May 16, 2009

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



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.

Bottom Line
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A well executed thriller

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Currency

Banner: Indostar Movie Magic

Cast: Jayasuriya, Mukesh, Kalabhavan Mani, Meera Nandhan

Direction: Swathy Bhaskar

Music: Siddharth Bipin



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.

Bottomline
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Currency - is a different experience

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Bhagyadevatha

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

Direction: Sathyan Anthikkad

Production: Kalasangham

Music: Illayaraja


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 .

Bottom Line : 
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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.