Ring Tone - Review

Director

Ajmal

Music

Shaan

Cast

Suresh Gopi, Bala, Megha Nair

Listen to the ridiculous lyrics and music of the song “Pathalle, pathalle nee ennum aapathalle…” and you will know what to expect from director Ajmal'sRing Tone!

Sadly, things turn out to be even worse and in plain words, the film is nothing less than an insult to the viewers. With no worthy script and amateurish direction, the only surprise here is on how those involved managed to convince others to go ahead and make a film like this.

It is actually a painful thing to remember the exact storyline, as none of those behind its making seems to have a clue about that as well. Even the relevance of the title is never explained but no one is going to bother about all these after two hours of excruciating experience, watching this one.

Krishna (Bala) flees from the cops after he inadvertently becomes involved in a bomb blast at a hospital. After certain unbelievable incidents, he finds refuge in the home of the virtuous Thampuran (Rajan P Dev), a rich man living in a sleepy village near Tamil Nadu.

Believe it or not, there is a girl named Meera (Megha Nair) who lands up at the same place and everyone thinks that the two are love birds. Quite obviously this starts the song ‘n’ dance routines as well. If you are interested still, there is a Naxalite angle to the story and a super-cop, Nainan Koshy (Suresh Gopi) makes his entry soon.

It's not just the script or direction that is faulty here, the production quality is tacky as well. The visuals look ordinary and less said about the music, the better. The sets look ordinary and the thrills lack any fizz.

Suresh Gopi tries in vain to look like some of his high voltage characters from the past as a cop and try to mimic some of those styles. Both Bala and Megha Nair seem to have been competing with each other to come up with the worst performance. (Of course, they will share the prize as it is difficult to decide who the winner is). The rest of the cast, including Rajan P Dev, Sai Kumar, Anoop Chandran and Zeenath among others have only limited roles to play.

After watching the film, the first thing that would be in the viewer's mind is on why someone should produce this crap? Other than wasting money and time, films like these serves no particular purpose. Take a walk, have some nice food, watch a nice movie on DVD, just doze off or if you are too particular, go for this movie, but at your own risk only!

Verdict : Average

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Alexander The Great Review

Synopsis - Prathapa Varma (Saikumar) leaves all his property in the name of his stepson Alexander Varma (Mohanlal).Manu (Bala),his other son tries to attain his signature in order to get the legal power over the property.

Script - Inspired from Dustin Hoffman-Tom Cruise starrer "The Rainman",this film deals with a person who has a high IQ level n thus looks abnormal in the eyes of others because of his attitude towards life.This is what the scriptwriter has done to Hoffman's character who suffers from Autism in the original.Almost the first portion reminds you of The Rainman.But the scriptwriter was able to adapt it to Malayalam very well along with the director.If you take this movie as an entertainer or time-pass,then you won't have to blame the screenplay since it provides entertainment throughout.But if you start to be a a bit microscopic,then you might find the development of script is not seen much.But for me,its quite s decent job done by a not so known writer,P Balachandran.What makes this predictable film is the way scenes are ordered,quite unpredictable actually.Plus U mite feel,the makers have glorified Mohanlal's Alexander a bit too much,showing his skills n predictions turning true etc.but nowadays U see worse than these.

Direction - Murali Nagavally has done just a fine job.At times,he seems to be out of touch n amateurish.At times,he got a good grip over the film.I felt like he was waiting Mohanlal to be introduced in this film (which wasn't a great one actually),so that half of the load maybe put onto his head.Because,the movie starts to look different in a positive manner after the entry of Lal.But its quite a relief that he didn't make any attempt to glorify Mohanlal the star.


Cast & Performance - Mohanlal was too good as usual.A person who did Thanmathra won't find this role challenging,But what he was able to convey consistently was the "innocence" required by the character.Bala was OK.He has loads of room to improve,but his best character in Malayalam till now.Sudhachandran was relief n looked fresh while comparing to KPAC,Kavyoor,Sukumari etc.But the person who dubbed for her was a bit irritating.Sidhiqque has to do another HALLO with full hair.Nedumudi,Ganesh etc were good.Jagadeesh was again inconsistent.Meenaxi as Bala's lover didn't have much to do n was below average.


Music & Background Score - Etho Oru Vaakil...stands out.M G Sreekumar has done a great job as a music director n singer.A perfect song to start the film.Rest all were below average.The Background Score was at times a bit loud.

Production Value - The producer seems to have no probs in spending money.He n Director has chosen Dubai,Mumbai etc to give a slick look to this film.I believe its a good move,or else the film would have looked bad.

Technical Expertise - Cinematography was good.I personally didn't like Mohanlal's getup,even if its meant to show Lal as an innocent guy.Editing was fine.

Overall.....A movie which should have been released during Vishu.A Feel Good Entertainer.U won't see much gimmicks or punchlines in this movie (if tats wat u r expecting in an entertainer)...So 7/10[/]as an entertainer

P:S - The film would surely done better business if released during Vishu.Now with ONV releasing next week n bad pre publicity,it might affect the film.

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T D Dasan Standard VI B Movie Review

For all those film festival buffs who had been the ardent fans of the Iranian films, that narrated simple emotional stories with children, this one is indeed a treat. Debutant director Mohan Raghavan has created an unusual Mollywood movie exactly in the same league of festival winners, with his debut film 'T D Dasan, Standard VI B'.

The movie has debutant Alexander as T D Dasan, who lives with his mother Chandrika (Shwetha Menon) in a sleepy village near Chittur in Palakkad. Chandrika who is deserted by her husband Diwakaran long back, works in a local matchstick factory and is struggling to get both ends meet. One day, while searching for something in his mother's trunk box, Dasan gets an address of his dad who walked out of their house when he was a year old. Dasan immediately writes one letter to this address explaining all his woes and pains for not being with his father. The letter reaches Keystone Villa to where it was addressed and where Dasan's father Diwakaran was working as a driver.

But as of now, the house is inhabited by an ad filmmaker named Nandan (Biju Menon), who lives there with his only daughter Ammu (Teena Rose), a little prodigy and a short story writer. She gets affected by the innocence of Dasan's lines and starts writing replies to Dasan, as if they were written by his dad. The reply to Dasan comes to him as every sort of blessing, an only chance of reconnecting to his father .But very soon the myths, surrounding the village and coincidences were to take his story to a different turn.

The soft social commentary that runs all along, addressing the anti-coal war to the social forestry promotions that never take a preachy tone, is the highlight of the movie. The marvellous direction coupled with sensitive writing makes Mohan Raghavan, the most impressive debut in recent times. The director gloriously continues his experiments with narratives allowing the ad maker Nandhan to think wild around the frame of the letter addressed to a long gone father.

His attempts on finding its possible later half, for a feature film is constructed inside the narratives in a charming way, never dissuading any interests from the original story. The movie upholds the belief on human values and at the same time gives the multi layered diverse viewpoints of village and town, reality, myths and fiction, and that of children and grownups.

The movie which is definitely a brilliant outcome, is supported by everyone from its lead cast of children, who are spontaneous in their acting .Others including Biju Menon, Vatsala Menon and Shwetha menon plays their parts to true extremes.

The only song by Sreevatsan J Menon is another great piece of work, after his songs for ‘Laptop’. Sreevatsan's BG scores are also a treat to hear. The camera work by Arun Varma and editing by Vinod Sukumaran also needs special mention. So is the art work by Sunil Kochanoor and costumes by Rasak Thirur.

At the same time, It is also of great regret to say that the reviewer was only able to watch the movie in his third attempt, the first two becoming unsuccessful due to the need of a minimum audience to run the show in the release centers .If this is the fate of sensible, brilliant Mollywood movies in Box Office, we are damn sure that no kind of producer agitations or financial regulatory measures are going to help the industry from a possible destruction.

The connoisseurs of good cinema, it is high time for you to stand up and parade inside theatres to help such honest sensitive ventures that are going to be the worthy mascots of our industry, everywhere.

Verdict : Good

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Alexander The Great -- Review

അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ് മോഹന്‍ലാലിന്‍റെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച ചിത്രങ്ങളില്‍ ഒന്നല്ല. ഇതിന്‍റെ കഥ ആരും കേട്ടിട്ടില്ലാത്തതുമല്ല. എന്നാല്‍ ഈ സിനിമയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള കേട്ടറിവുകളില്‍ ഉണ്ടായ മുന്‍‌വിധിയെ തകര്‍ത്തുകളഞ്ഞു സിനിമയുടെ ആഖ്യാനം. കാണികളെ എന്‍റര്‍ടെയ്ന്‍ ചെയ്യുക എന്ന മിനിമം കടമ നിര്‍വഹിക്കുന്നതില്‍ അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ വിജയമാണ്. മനസ് ഫ്രീയാക്കി, രസകരമായി കണ്ടിരിക്കാവുന്ന ചിത്രമാണ് അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ്.

‘രാജമാണിക്യം’ എന്ന മമ്മൂട്ടിപ്പടത്തിനോട് ചേര്‍ന്നുനില്‍ക്കുന്ന കഥാഗതിയാണ് അലക്സാണ്ടറിന് തുടക്കത്തില്‍. പ്രതാപവര്‍മ എന്ന ദുബായ് ബേസ്ഡ് ബിസിനസ് രാജാവിന്‍റെ മരണമാണ് കഥയുടെ തുടക്കം. വര്‍മ മരിച്ചതോടെ കോടികള്‍ വരുന്ന അയാളുടെ സമ്പത്തിനായി ബന്ധുക്കള്‍ രംഗത്തെത്തുന്നു. വര്‍മയുടെ മകന്‍ മനു(ബാല)വാണ് അന്തമില്ലാത്ത ആ സ്വത്തിനെല്ലാം അവകാശിയെന്ന് കരുതിയിരുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് ഒരു ഷോക്കിംഗ് ന്യൂസാണ് കേള്‍ക്കേണ്ടിവന്നത്. വര്‍മ കോര്‍പറേറ്റ്സ് എന്ന ബിസിനസ് സാമ്രാജ്യവും മറ്റ് സ്വത്തുക്കളും വര്‍മ മറ്റൊരാളുടെ പേരില്‍ എഴുതിവച്ചിരിക്കുകയാണ്. ഏതോ ഒരു അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ വര്‍മ!

അയാള്‍ ആരാണെന്നുള്ള അന്വേഷണം നമ്മുടെ നായകനിലേക്കെത്തുകയാണ്. കുട്ടിത്തമുള്ള, എന്നാല്‍ വലിയകാര്യങ്ങള്‍ ചിന്തിക്കുന്ന, നിഷ്കളങ്കനായ, എന്നാല്‍ ബുദ്ധിമാനായ ആ കഥാപാത്രമായി സാക്ഷാല്‍ മോഹന്‍ലാല്‍ സ്ക്രീനില്‍ നിറയുന്നു(സ്ക്രീനില്‍ നിറയുക തന്നെയാണ് - ഈ സിനിമയിലെ മോഹന്‍ലാലിന് തടി ഇത്തിരി അധികമാണ്).

അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ വര്‍മ പിന്നീട് നടത്തുന്ന നീക്കങ്ങളാണ് ഈ സിനിമയുടെ പ്രമേയം. ശത്രുക്കള്‍ ഏറുമ്പോഴും അയാള്‍ കളിക്കുകയാണ്. അലക്സാണ്ടറുടെ മൈന്‍ഡ് ഗെയിമുകള്‍ മറ്റുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് ചിന്തിക്കാവുന്നതിനും അപ്പുറത്തായിരുന്നു.

രാജമാണിക്യം, ഹലോ, ഫ്ലാഷ് തുടങ്ങിയ മുന്‍‌കാല ചിത്രങ്ങളുടെ ഓര്‍മ്മയുണര്‍ത്തും പലപ്പോഴും അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ്. എങ്കിലും വ്യക്ത്വിത്വമുള്ള ഒരു സിനിമയായി വേറിട്ടുനില്‍ക്കാന്‍ അതിനു കഴിയുന്നുണ്ട്. മനസില്‍ തട്ടുന്ന ചില മുഹൂര്‍ത്തങ്ങള്‍ മോഹന്‍ലാല്‍ അപാരമായ മികവോടെ അവതരിപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.

‘വാണ്ടഡ്’ എന്ന തന്‍റെ ആദ്യചിത്രത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് സംവിധായകന്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ ഏറെ മുന്നേറിയ ഒരു മുരളി നാഗവള്ളിയെയാണ് ഈ സിനിമയില്‍ കാണാനാവുക. എങ്കിലും നല്ല ഒരു തിരക്കഥയുടെ അഭാവം ചില രംഗങ്ങളില്‍ ലാഗ് അനുഭവിപ്പിക്കുന്നു.

മോഹന്‍ലാല്‍ തനിക്ക് ലഭിച്ച കഥാപാത്രത്തെ മികവുറ്റതാക്കി. ബാലയും ബാലയുടെ നായികയായി വരുന്ന മീനാക്ഷി ദീക്ഷിതും ഭേദപ്പെട്ട പ്രകടനം കാഴ്ചവയ്ക്കുന്നു. സിദ്ദിഖ്, ഗണേഷ്, നെടുമുടിവേണു എല്ലാം പതിവുപോലെ. എന്നാല്‍ ജഗദീഷിന്‍റെ കോമഡികള്‍ പലപ്പോഴും ചിരിക്കണോ കരയണോ എന്ന സങ്കീര്‍ണതയിലേക്ക് പ്രേക്ഷകനെ എത്തിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് പറയാതെ വയ്യ.

വില്ലനായി ജോണ്‍ കൊക്കെന്‍ നന്നാ‍യി. എടുത്തുപറയേണ്ട ഒരുകാര്യം ബാലയുടെ അമ്മ ഗായത്രി എന്ന കഥാപാത്രമായി വേഷമിട്ട സുധാചന്ദ്രന്‍റെ പ്രകടനമാണ്. ഏറെക്കാലത്തിനു ശേഷമാണ് സുധാചന്ദ്രനെ സ്ക്രീനില്‍ കാണുന്നത്. തനിക്കു ലഭിച്ച വേഷം അനുഗ്രഹീതയായ ആ നടി ഗംഭീരമാക്കി.

ഗിരീഷ് പുത്തഞ്ചേരിയുടെ രചനയില്‍ എം ജി ശ്രീകുമാര്‍ ഈണമിട്ട ഗാനങ്ങളെല്ലാം ശരാശരിയിലും താഴെയാണ്. ചില ഗാനരംഗങ്ങളും കോമഡിരംഗങ്ങളും കുടുംബപ്രേക്ഷകരെ തിയേറ്ററില്‍ നിന്ന് അകറ്റുന്നതിന് കാരണമായേക്കാം. എന്നാല്‍, ഒട്ടേറെ പിഴവുകള്‍ക്കിടയിലും, പ്രേക്ഷകര്‍ക്ക് ബോറടിയില്ലാതെ ആസ്വദിക്കാവുന്ന ചിത്രമാണ് അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ്. മോഹന്‍ലാലിന്‍റെ കുസൃതി നിറഞ്ഞ നേരമ്പോക്കുകള്‍ പ്രേക്ഷകര്‍ കൈയടിയോടെ സ്വീകരിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. എന്നാല്‍ ഇടയ്ക്ക് നായകന്‍ നടത്തുന്ന ചില പ്രവചനങ്ങളൊക്കെ ഒഴിവാക്കാമായിരുനു എന്നു തോന്നി.

പോക്കിരിരാജ, കഥ തുടരുന്നു എന്നീ ചിത്രങ്ങളോടാണ് അലക്സാണ്ടര്‍ ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ് മത്സരിക്കുന്നത്. ബോക്സോഫീസ് വിജയം ഇപ്പോള്‍ പ്രവചിക്കാനാവില്ല.

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Kadha Thudarunnu-- Review

Director
Sathyan Anthikkad

Music
Ilaiyaraja

Cast
Jayaram, Mamta Mohandas, Asif Ali

Director Sathyan Anthikkad treads through his usual path of family saga with a mix of melodrama, clichéd lines and all the ingredients in the formula, yet again.

That's the first thing which comes to your mind as you watch his latest film,Kadha Thudarunnu. Yes, there is an okay storyline here and the film has its moments for sure, but the problem is the old-fashioned way it has been packaged.

Shanavas Ahmad (Asif Ali), a key board player and Vidyalakshmi (Mamta Mohandas) marries against the wishes of their families. They are left on their own and a song later, they have a cute little daughter. Tragedy strikes soon, when some goonda gangs kill Shanavas by mistake and Vidya has virtually no where to go from then on.

Some dramatic turnarounds happens and she meets a virtuous auto-driver Preman (Jayaram), who takes her to his modest colony. Quite a few interesting characters played by KPAC Lalitha, Innocent, Mamukoya, Lakshmipriya, Chembil Asokan and so on takes the story ahead for a while. Now, Vidya soon becomes a part of their lives and they change her life as well.

Now, if you are not looking forward to some experiments, love watching those mushy tearjerkers on TV and your concept is somewhere on the lines of those Sooraj Barjatya kind of films where the lead characters all come in an often unbelievable shades of white, chances are that you can find this one fine enough. Perhaps Sathyan too is not there to prove a point and is happy repeating his trademark style as well!

There are some touching situations in the film but then, the storyline itself moves ahead in a rather predictable way. However, it is to the credit of the director that he has narrated a story from the point of view of a woman, which is a rarity during these times.

Mamta Mohandas has a challenging role at her hands and she handles it pretty fine as well. Jayaram has nothing much to do, but the film gets out of its sluggish pace only after his character arrives almost close to the first half.

Asif Ali gets a good platform but his chemistry with Mamta is rather disappointing on screen. Baby Anikha, who plays Vidyalakshmi's daughter, looks cute. The supporting characters look perhaps like those stereotyped ones in any story of this nature. Venu's camera is fine and Ilaiyaraja's tunes are quite good.

It is meant for those easily-moved, over-sentimental sorts who are not at the theatres to bother too much about its script or style. It's not in the league of the director's own Bhagyadevatha, which came out last year, and suffers when he tries a bit too hard to make it unbelievably idealistic at times. Fine, may be, but could have been better!

Verdict: Average

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Pokkiri Raja -- Review

Director

Vysakh

Music

Jassie Gift

Cast
Mammootty, Prithviraj, Shriya Saran

If anyone had doubts about why virtually every movie buff in Malayalam laments about the levels to which the films here have stooped, watch Pokkiri Raja. With no storyline worth mentioning, this one is just meant for the gallery, or more specifically, for the fans of Mammootty and Prithviraj. Their repeated close-ups, heroics, dialogues and the gimmickry remind some of those yesteryear Tamil masala movies at best!

As it is a custom in most of the movies of the genre in Malayalam these days, this film also begins with some flashback sequences, when the heroes were young and gets involved in certain scuffles with a rival gang. The elder one, Raja (Mammootty), moves to Madurai and becomes a don there. He sports a walrus moustache, speaks in broken English meant to evoke laughs and travels in a swanky BMW, religiously followed by more than a dozen Innova cars.

Before Raja makes his entry, almost the entire first half is focused on his younger brother Surya (Prithviraj) and his escapades. Both the men can beat any number of thugs to a pulp, sing, dance or mouth sensational dialogues. Soon, Raja comes on time when Surya is in trouble, the song-dance-dialogues-fight cycle repeats.

It is a rather poor hotchpotch of sequences from Rajamanikyam, Annan Thampi, Puthiya Mugham, Boeing Boeing (Salim Kumar trying to ape Jagathy's funny act with less finesse) and from several other films. Of course, there is no problem in having films which are just meant to entertain the viewers and the kind that ask them to leave their brains back home. But then, such films should have at least a half decent storyline and some nice moments. No such luck here!

What the film succeeds in the end is providing some fantastic visuals while the heroes make their appearance and both have been presented in super style. Mammootty and Prithviraj look handsome in their own way and the scenarist duo of Siby K Thomas and Udayakrishna have succeeded in allotting almost equal footage to them. Vysakh has done his bit to give style to every frame, with the heroes in it. But at around two hours and forty five minutes the film is tad too lengthy, especially for a loud one like this.

Shriya Saran plays Prithviraj's pair in the film and she has nothing much to do other than to look pretty. Siddique and Riyas Khan play the baddies, though they look like mere caricatures, at the hands of the heroes. Suraj Venjarammood and Salim Kumar try their best to tickle the funny bones with their usual buffoonery, but generally fall flat. Shaji's visuals look good and Jassie Gift's compositions suit the mood.

It's true that the viewers look forward just to have some entertaining moments and some spectacular visuals and are prepared to let logic take a backseat. But the question is, why can't its makers try to come up with a genuine script when they have two of Malayalam's highly saleable heroes with them, in a rare casting-coup?

Verdict: Mass Masala

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JANAKAN-REVIEW

Director

N R Sanjeev

Music

M Jayachandran

Cast

Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jyothirmayee

Debutant director N R Sanjeev's film has an inherent appeal mainly because of its genuine theme. But the problem here is that the real issues in the story lose its focus with its overdose of clichéd dialogues and the attempts to glorify the heroes.

Worse still, the same storyline was narrated by director M A Nishad in his film Vairam last year and it is sad that no earnest attempts have been made to package this one in a better way than the earlier film.

Viswanathan (Suresh Gopi), Monayi (Biju Menon) and Palani (Harisree Asokan) are fleeing from the cops and after several hurdles, they manage to reach ace lawyer Sooryanarayanan (Mohanlal). He listens to their rather tragic story, according to which Viswanathan's teenage daughter was gang raped and brutally murdered by a dirty trio, consisting of a super-rich businessman, a cop and a young DJ.

Dr. Rani (Jyothirmayee), who had taken care of the girl at the hospital, reveals certain crucial facts to Viswanathan. After their plea for justice falls on deaf ears, Viswanathan, Monayi and Palani kill the three miscreants, one after the other. Now Sooryanarayanan decides to help them, with his smart wit and brilliance.

Director Sanjeev and scenarist S N Swamy has gone for the highly conventional ways to narrate the story. From the hero-is-always-smart type quips and the thrills with well built hunks which he wins hands down, to the excessive melodrama, there are many scenes modeled on the formulaic films of this genre! Mohanlal has a comparatively brief role, but he has almost all the stylish lines in his kitty and the versatile genius is evidently at ease doing it all in a charming way.

Though one of main highlights of the film is the bond between a couple and their darling daughter, that part is almost ignored here. The chemistry shared between Suresh Gopi, his wife played by Kaveri and their daughter is ineffective on screen and that affects the whole mood of the film as well. Of course, Suresh Gopi tries really hard and he succeeds in his attempt to look convincing to a certain extent, but both Kaveri and the young girl fails to impress. Remember, Tamil actor Pasupathi had done a spectacular performance in a similar role in Vairam.

The rest of the cast including Jyothirmayee, Biju Menon, Harisree Asokan, Vijayaraghavan, Sivaji Guruvayur, Vijayakumar and Rajith Menon have limited roles to play. Sanjeev Sankar's camera is just okay while M Jayachandran's music is pretty nice.

There are no real experiments here, true, but the film has its moments and as they say, the heart at the right place. Though the film is just above two hours, it could have been more enjoyable, if it was shorter by some 20 minutes or so.

Verdict: Watchable

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Sufi Paranja Kadha Movie Review

With his new movie ‘Sufi Paranja Katha’, Director Priyanandanan has once again proved that why he is at the helm of award ceremonies in the previous years. Continuing with his characteristic ease in selecting and presenting themes with maturity, the movie is a simple poignant story based on writer K P Ramanunni’s award winning novel.

The movie has Sharbani Mukherji, whom you had seen before in movies like J P Dutta’s Border and Priyadarshan’s Rakkilippaattu. Karthy, a beautiful girl born into the prestigious Meleppullara Tharavadu, she shared a more than curious relationship with her Uncle Shankunni Menon. Later when she gets attracted to a handsome Muslim trader Mammootty, they decide to elope to his place. Karthy converts to Islam and their happy married life often gets into problems as she finds it tough to renounce her original beliefs. With the consent of her husband, she builds a temple near their home. But gradually this became the talk of the area igniting communal issues.

Sharbani Mukhrejee proves that the choice of finding her for the role was extremely a right one, and oozes enough sensuality as the character demands. She is meticulous in playing the complex character. Prakash Bare, the producer of the movie, who is a techie based in Hyderabad plays Mammootty with remarkable ease and performs as if he is a seasoned actor . And together they form a glorious pair often competing to steal the scenes from each other. While actor Babu Antony plays the role of Sufi (a Muslim mystic), his brother Thampi Antony impressively emotes the turmoils of Sanku Mamu. Another special role is of Jagathy sreekumar who plays Avaru musaliar. Vineeth kumar, Samruvatha Sunil and Indrans also play to the demands of their roles.

Director Priyanadanan even while sticking to his conventional ways of film making, proves that he can create the mood and set the balance in narrating even without much experimentation. In the technical front K G Jayan's cinematography and Mohan Sithara's music adds to the quality of the movie

‘Sufi Paranja Katha’ comes at a time when the Kerala society, heavily immersed in discussions of love-jihad and communal segregation, truly demands such a topic. The honesty with which the director and crew handled it definitely makes it a must watch for the connoisseurs of good cinema.

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