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.