Lucky Jokers - The jokers and the viewers are not so lucky

Banner: Oscar Films

Cast: Indrans, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Jagadeesh, Vadivelu

Production: Ravichandran

Music: M. Jayachandran



The movie set in the mammoth Vishnupuram palace, is all about a travel of a few after a previous diamond, that is owned by the Nepalese royal family and is send centuries ago to Vishnupuram to be kept in their interestingly built security locker, involving a lot of Vasthu concepts. The fist line of the film itself is about the centuries old relation between Nepalese and Kerala kings (?)

Few years ago, the present patriarch of the family (Madhu) was laid to coma after an attack by his nephew, whose family was scheming things to somehow get hold of this diamond which cost more than thousand crores. In fact one of the family members (Saikumar) is shown even planning another IPL team for Kerala, with the money that he may gather by selling this costly diamond.

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Lucky Jokers - The jokers and the viewers are not so lucky

Lucky Jokers, can be your movie if you are the type who  throw your thinking caps out of the window  for managing a few laughs. In fact, those rib tickling wits are also few and far in between the narratives, though the makers seems to have  taken the movie, too lightly that it could be.

Mohabbath - ‘Mohabbath' is half baked and out- of-date

Banner: East Coast Communications

Cast: Nedumudi Venu, Jagathy, Devan, Meera Jasmine, Asokan, Suraj Venjramood, Suresh Krishna, Saari, Lakshmi Priya, Munna, Siman, Anand Michael

Direction: East Coast Vijayan

Production: Ease Coast Vijayan

Music: S. Balakrishnan

The movie follows the life and woes of of a Muslim girl, Sajna(Meera Jasmine) from an influential family named 'Chandhanathope'.She is the bold elder daughter of the eldest heir(Devan) of the big family and is betrothed to  Anwar(Anand Micheal), her cousin who is currently studying to become a doctor. Sajna now plans to complete her degree course in the meantime. And when in college she meets Amir(Munna), with whom she had a love -hate relationship. After the obligatory fights which is followed by intense friendship, Amir opens his heart out and tells Sajna that he is in deep love with her. But Sajna immediately ridicules him for his petty scheming and desire to marry a girl from a rich family. Within days everything goes upside down as Sajna's father dies in an accident and grand father (Nedumudi Venu) also follows due to the shock of his favourite son’s untimely demise. In comes the villain in the form of Nizar (Ashokan) who throws Sajna and her family out of the home. As Sajna’s family is left in dire streets, Amir who has already dropped his studies, effortlessly becomes a big player in real estate business. What follows is how Amir, Anwar and Sajna travails with their love for each other.

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Mohabbath - ‘Mohabbath' is half baked and out- of-date

Mohabbath is an average show, all the way .Perhaps, this may have struck a chord a few years ago, but not certainly, today.

City Of God - This ‘City of God’ belongs to a different genre

Cast: Prithviraj, Indrajith, Rima Kallingal, Swetha Menon, Priyanka


Direction: Lijo Jose Pellissery


Production: Anil Mathew


Music: Prasanth Pillai



'City of God' is presented in a non-linear narrative style, telling different but interlinked  incidents in the lives of Tamil workers in the state and wars between real estate mafia and business groups, based at Kochy.  The movie opens with a crash scene where a speeding Sumo, which is followed by a mini bus of quotation gang, hits a couple travelling on a motorbike and then into an electric post .The movie then rewinds on to the incidents that led to the crash scene. And we are introduced to a small time Tamil labourer, Swarnavel(Indrajith), who is in love with Marathakam, a Tamil woman who flees her village to escape from her ever disturbing married life and husband.


A wily business man and builder in the city, Sony Vadayattil, had a love bitten heart where in the past he had to throw out a girl from his life, due to persuasion from his parents.Now that girl has grown up to become the famous filmstar,Sooryaprabha(Reema Kallingal). Sony, with the aid of his best friend Jyothilal (Prithviraj), is out there to get the lady back into his life though she had been married for four years. And amidst their nefarious activities to accumulate wealth, Jyothilal, who is more like a bodyguard to his friend Sony, kills Poonoose, a wealthy businessman, while operating in a land deal.This leaves his wife Viji Punnose(Shwetha Menon) who witnesses the murder of her husband, go to any extent to take revenge.


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City Of God - This ‘City of God’ belongs to a different genre


‘City of God’ is a movie with feelings and appeal for the proponents of differently made experimental cinema. Director Lijo, Anil Mathew and their crew needs to be applauded for the efforts in keeping away cliches and commercial thrusts on the narrative structure, though they may find it a little difficult to cruise in the box-office( which is already ruled by such ‘Christian brothers’ and ‘China towns’). May be, our viewers may take a little more time to befriend such varied attempts.

Doubles - A poor show in ‘Doubles'

Banner: Dreams on Wheels


Cast: Mammootty, Nadhia, Bhavana, Tapasee, Atul Kulkarni, Biju Menon, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Salim Kumar


Direction: Sohan Seenu Lal


Production: KK. Narayanadas


Music: James Vasanthan


The movie is all about twin siblings Giri (Mammootty) and Gouri (Nadiya Moithu), whose parents were killed in their childhood, in a road accident. They now runs an Accident Rescue Service at Pondicherry to make it sure that no one else dies on road due to lack of timely care and needed help.The siblings are told to be  absolutely inseparable, and  remains unmarried, though we don’t get the intensity of their relationship in any of the scenes portrayed on screen.Things takes a different path as a new girl, Saira bhanu rescued from an accident start to live in their house as she has got no where to go. Add to that is the subplot of Gouri’s liking for Michel(Suresh), their foster father Pieere’s son,  as well as Giri's rejection of such a relation due to reputation of  Michel as a spoiled brat.


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Doubles - A poor show in ‘Doubles'


‘Doubles’ is a poor show all the way. The script and the direction disappoints to such a level that it may not even sound   a good looking  film for the hard core fans of the megastar.

China Town - 'Chinatown' is just for time pass

Banner: Aashirwad Films


Cast: Mohanlal, Jayaram, Dileep, Kavya Madhavan


Direction: Rafi and Mecartin


Production: Antony Perumbavoor


Music: Jassie Gift


The movie opens with a flashback of 1986, planted in Goa where four friends- Xavier, David, Jayakrishnan, Gomez and their family are leading a happy life, running a casino. But a drug dealer turned politician, Gowda plays foul and kills three of the friends while their children lead by Gomez somehow manages to escape from the land. Twenty five Years later, Gomez (Captain Raju) is now back to Goa to teach Gowda a lesson and to gift the children of his friends with the ownership a new casino. For that he manages to bring together Xavier's son Mathukutty,(Mohanlal) who is now  a known goonda at Idukki, and Jayakrishanan's son Binoy , a hyper romantic drunkard with David's son Zakharaia who is ready to do anything for money. More over, Gomez also secretly informs the police about the drugs stock in the casinos owned by Gowda, leading to continuous raids in later’s warehouses and loss of around hundred crores of stuff. The movie takes a different route as Gowda who is contesting the elections accidentally identities the three youngsters as his former enemy's sons.


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China Town - 'Chinatown' is just for time pass


'Chinatown' has a thoroughly entertaining first hour, but the weak writing in its post-interval portions asking you to leave-your-brains-at-home prevents the movie from becoming an altogether  appreciable work.At the Box Office, the movie will have a very good first week,  but the subsequent weeks will need heavy promotions to sail through.  Anyhow, ‘China Town’ is prescribable for a one time watch, much to enjoy the comic timing of its lead cast.

Urumi - This ‘Urumi’ Is Beautiful, A Must See

Banner: August Cinema


Cast: Genelia D'Souza, Prithviraj, Tabu, Prabhu Deva, Arya, Nithya Menon, Vidya Balan


Direction: Santhosh Sivan


Production: Prithviraj, Santosh Sivan, Shaji Natesan.


Music: Deepak Dev


The movie opens in the present century where a carefree youth named Krishna Das gets an irresistible offer to sell his ancestor land. While he embarks to Kerala to sign the related records, he realizes the stories about his ancestors and about the fiery feats they had taken to keep their homeland free of invaders. And in the flashback we are introduced to the courageous fighter ( Arya) who is killed for his plans to eliminate the viceroy, Vasco Da Gama, of Portuguese empire. His son Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar now gets ready for revenge, making an 'Urumi' with the ornaments of innocents who was burnt alive when going to Mecca. The massacre was executed according to the order from Vasco da Gama. Kelu Naynar with his close Muslim friend from childhood Vavvali (Prabhu Deva) also get the support of princess Ayesha (Genelia) who is also plotting to fight the foreign invaders led by Vasco Da Gama. The film goes on to tell whether they succeed in their mission to eliminate the threat from Indian soil.


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Urumi - This ‘Urumi’ Is Beautiful, A Must See


’Urumi’ is a must watch for all those who love quality cinema. Redefining the traditional qualities of period dramas, ‘Urumi’ is sure to become a movie that will be  respected and adored by Mollywood for its creative panache, tremendous performances and great technical wizardry.

August 15 - 'August 15' is not up to mark

Cast: Mammootty, Meghna Naidu, Madhu


Direction: Shaji Kailas


Production: M Mani


The movie has Mammootty again in the role of Perumal, a senior officer with the Crime branch. He is now entrusted with the mission of finding the culprits behind the poisoning of the State Chief Minister Vasudevan,(Nedumudi Venu) who is now in a critical condition in hospital. The C M is in logger heads with the party secretary (Saikumar as a Pinarayi look alike) and also with the lottery and sand mafia. As with the original, there arrives the professional killer (this time, it is Siddhique) and the rest is predictable.


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August 15 - 'August 15' is not up to mark


'August 15' may fare a little better than ' Drona 2010' but may not help Shaji Kailas or S N Swamy to bounce back with a hit.Prescribed only for the big fans of the megastar who still likes him walking handsome in slow motions and doing routine investigative stuffs.