Gulumal

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Cast: Jayasuriya, Kunchakko Boban, Mithra Kurian, Bijukuttan, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Manian Pilai Raju, Salim Kumar, Devan

Direction: V K Prakash

Production: Sajitha Prakash

Music: Manu Rameshan

A cat and mouse game about two conman Ravi Varma (Kunchakko Boban) and Jerry (Jayasuriya), the movie offers surprising twists in regular intervals that are highly engaging. As Ravi Varma needs a few lakhs of money in a short notice, to get his father out of the jail, he befriends Jerry – a bigger criminal and adorns him as his guru. They accidentally get into a big deal about selling a fake copy of the drawings of Raja Ravi Varma, to an immensely rich NRI Emir (Devan), making him believe that it is original. Getting an offer of a three crores for the painting, they are now into anything to push off the deal and thus make easy money. There is a funny parallel track of Suraj Venjaramoodu and Bijukuttan, playing cops from Anti Terrorist Squad, now running stupidly after the pranksters to create some slapstick, which is utilized wisely in between.

Bottom Line

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Gulumal The Escape - V K P has a winner, in ‘Gulumal’

V K Prakash is the one director who with his all technical finesse couldn’t make one big hit in Mollywood, mainly due to the inane scripts that was offered to him. But this time in ‘Gulumal-The Esacape’, he seems to have opted for a safer route. He faithfully remaked the Argentinean movie by Fabian Bielinsky ‘Nueve Reinas’(Nine Queens),a comedy caper, thereby offering a rollercoaster ride in all its richness and quality and even sticking to the original in its acting credentials. And the result is an entertaining stuff, with stylish and crazy entertainment that won’t give you much time to think in its 140 minutes ride.