Twenty 20

Cast: Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Jayaram, Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indrajith, Boban Kunchakko, Nayantara

Direction: Joshy


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The story starts with the retired supreme court Justice Viswanatha Menon (Madhu) who lands at his ancestral home to have his vishu celebrations with his children (Siddhique, Vijayaraghavan, Sindhumenon) and grandchildren.
The big joint family is all set to celebrate the weekend, assembling from many places, but the family’s weekend plans gets pale with Menon’s grandson ''Arun'' (Indrajith), a medico in Bangalore, is arrested for murder by the tough upright city police commissioner Antony Punnakkadan (Suresh Gopi). Menon hires one of his favorite student and fierce lawyer Ramesh Nambiar (Mammootty) to bail him out. Arun is safely taken care off from the court by Ramesh, but is killed in a few days.

Antony now arrests Devan (Mohanlal), a poor trader who was on an outing to Kochi. Devan's mother (Sukumari) and sister (Kavya Madhavan) pleads for help before Remesh. And here too the ace criminal lawyer finds points to get Devan out of the jail, unscathed. But here starts the tale of twists, which continues form reel to reel for the next two hours.

What works heavily for ‘Twenty: 20’ is that it lives up to its name-just like a 20:20 match, you can't predict what will happen in the next reels. Just when you fix this as the last twist in the tale, will arrive the next that will keep you in tight seats

Mayabazar

Banner: Akhil Cinema
Cast: Mammootty, Tisca Chopra, Kalabhavan Mani, Rajan P. Dev. T.G. Ravi, Suraj Venjarammoodu , Salimkumar, Sabitha Anand, Saikumar, Bijukuttan, Master Akhil, Lalu Alex, Yamini Sharma
Direction: Thomas Sebastian
Production: Saji
Music: Rahulraj
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The movie is set at ‘Mayabazaar', a market at mayanoor where scrap or parts of worn out vehicles are sold. Mammootty dons the role of Rameshan, a leading man of the bazaar and local do-gooder who buys old vehicles, dismantles them and sells the parts. Rameshan is the son of Akri Damodharan (Rajan P Dev) who migrated to Mayabazaar from Cherpulassery. Akri Damadharan is a typical character who occasionally steals money from his son and sets on for pilgrimages.

Rameshan, who values living for the downtrodden, is also the main organizer of lunch packets to the ailing patients of the nearby hospital. A lovable and fearless guy, he often has to deal with a rival gang lead by Bhadran (Kalabhavan Mani) who causes him problems, all based on his relation with Maya, who is madly after him.

Parthan Kanda Paralokam

Banner: Screen Entertainment Company
Cast: Mukesh, Jayaram, Sreedevika, Jagathy Sreekumar, Kalabhavan Mani, Salim Kumar, Shobha Mohan, Kottayam Naseer
Direction: Anil

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The movie has Jayaram as Partha Sarathy, a social activist who is always living for the welfare of his fellow people of the Krishanapuram village. He has a group of young men like Suleiman and Poonkodi around him, who are with him for anything and everything. A staunch atheist after the untimely death of his father who was returning after a pilgrimage, Parthan is always in clashes with Phalgunan Thampy, his uncle who is also the corrupt president of the local panchayath.Parthan’s do-gooder image and his popular support irks Thampi who uses every chance to get rid of his nephew.

For a long time, the village temple has been closed due to court cases initiated by Parthan against his uncle, who was after the temple assets. Thampy's daughter Sathyabhama who returns from town with the first rank in LLM pretends to be in love with Parthan, but ditches him in court, thus helping her father to gain possession of temple properties. Parthan who stands agitated is sent to jail for a month's imprisonment for contempt of court.

When Parthan is in jail, Thampi with his crude friend, a local MLA creates religious riots to divide Parthan's followers, which kills many a people .When Parthan is released, he and his friends drink illicitly brewed arrack in a friend's marriage party and is confirmed dead. Though some of his friends die in the incident, Parthan mysteriously gets back to his life which is now filled with day mares and surrealistic imagery’s. Adding to this pandemonium is the arrival of Madhavan, who appears from nowhere and claims to be the one who studied with Pathan years ago. Madhavan doesn't go back but keep a close watch of Parthan guiding him to wisdom and helping him in every situation .The movie goes on to tell how Parthan gets cleared of all the problems of his life and how he manages it is the rest of the movie.

Kurukshethra

Banner: Damor Films
Cast: Mohanlal
Direction: Major Ravi


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The bulk of the movie is concerned with Colonal Mahadevan's (Mohanlal) Battalion's strategic operandi that led to the recapture of the hilly Kargil terrain. Though a portion of the movie is used to explore the feelings, fears and hopes of the soldiers involved, thereby recreating the manoeuvres and comment on the futility of war. Granted, I would liked to have had an explanation about how the war got started and the gruesome details on what really got everyone to the point of arms, and how the Indians strategically retorted, but it wasn't necessarily told in the film.

Adayalangal

Cast: Govidpadma Suriya,Jyothirmayi,T.G Ravi, V.K Sriraman, Manikandan, director T.V Chandran

Direction: M. G.Sasi

Music: Vidyadharan

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The movie takes a close look at the life of Gopi and his reasons which forced him to join the army. Gopi who lived with his mother and two siblings was suffering from ridicule and extreme poverty, due to the particular social sphere that existed during the war period. His only step brother Ravunni, who was already in the army, took little care in keeping the hunger of the inmates of his tharavadu, at bay. Moreover he was ego tic and cruel in more ways than one. Gopi who didn't have the luck for better education tries in his own humble ways for a living, but fails in all attempts to raise a better household and support his siblings. His only solace was Meenakshi kutty who relinquish his hunger of body and mind. She inspires him to fight the odds and try for something new, away from his native land and ever mocking relatives.

Laptop

Cast:Suresh Gopi, Padmapriya, Urmila Unni, Madhuben, Harikrishnan
Direction:Rupesh Paul
Music:Sreevalsan J. Menon

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'My Mother's Laptop' has Suresh Gopi as Ravi, a famous theatre artist who returns home after thirty long years, to find that his mother slipped into a coma state following some terminal illness. Enmeshed in an array of guilt and deep regrets of having deserted her, Ravi tries to complement by being with her all the days in hospital, rejecting his career and passions. He even can't accommodate his girlfriend Payal, who arrives back from Calcutta to console him and persuade him to return to his profession.
The film has several concealed layers of complexity about a man who is virtually lost in the memoirs of his mother and the love for her. The film explores how love can drift into obsession and how desire kindles uncontrollable emotions. The suggestions of Oedipus and of bedsores in the unmovable beautiful body, to the specimen taken after a total abdominal hysterectomy suggest so many manifestations of meanings as never before.

Veruthe Oru Bharya

Cast: Gopika, Jayaram
Direction: Akku Akbar
Music: Shyam Dharman

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The film focuses on the lives of a very few characters - Sugunan (Jayaram), an overseer with the electricity board, his wife Bindu (Gopika) and their teenage daughter Anju (Nivedita), Sugunan's colleagues and Bindu's family, comprising of her parents and her brother Ramesh (Madhu Warrier). Sugunan is a typical egoistic and ever complaining husband, who has his core of stipulations to his ever submissive wife. Sugunan considers Bindhu just as a person who is obliged to meet all the pressures in managing homely affairs. Neither he acknowledges his wife's efforts in maintaining the peaceful atmosphere at home nor does he help her in any of the related matters. He is more a hypocrite who never allows his talkative wife to engage with her friends or relatives or attend public functions. Never do Sugunan takes his wife for leisure to have a break from her routine pressures.
Having lost the ardor of a love they once knew together, the growing discord between Sugunan and Bindu leads to a point for Bindu, to break the cycle. She decides to take a break from their strain of their disagreements and return to her father (Innocent) leaving her husband to take care of her daughter. Sugunan takes it as another chance for a fight and tries to manage things, but in vain.