The latest offering from film maker Laljose, Neelathamara tells the story of an innocent girl, and her life’s dilemmas. The director has succeeded to remake a film from the 70s without any possible cliches. The movie has the freshness, and Laljose has succeeded in his department.
The major plus point of the film is the characterization, especially that of Kunju Maalu, played by Archana. Every character have their own identity, and ace writer M T’s script is good in that part. But the film doesn’t have an impactful ending or climax. The movie ends like a book.
The film moves forward well without any crap comedies or comic characters. The song “Anuraga Vilochananayi” is really suit & hummable where as another sad song was unnecessary. The newcomers Archana Kavi and Kailash performed well.
As a whole, Neelathamara is like a nice novel. Watch it.
Rating 7/10
Hats Off to Ranjith and team for providing an unsuual gem for malayalam cinema. The film proves that there are many fresh talents here are awaiting chance in our industry.
Island Express.
Sankar Ramakrishnan is a sure bet for malayalam cinema’s future. This film is outstanding with its strong script and direction. Cinematography and nice frames deserves a special mention. Climax was great.
8.5/10
Lalitham Hiranmayam
This short film is a distant relative of the teleserial “Avicharitham” written by Bobby Sanjay. Eventhough Shaji Kailas has portrayed a good theme with brilliance. Jyothirmayi was good. Cinematography and art work was great.
8/10
Happy Journey
Anjali Menon is going to have a permanent seat in malayalam cinema. A current and relevent theme is executed with some humour. Good script and direction in all the way.
8/10
Puramkazhchakal
Laljose excells with his magical touch. The movie reminds us that there always lies something inside every man unlike what is shown outside.The film is directed so well with a shocking climax. Mammootty was good.
8/10
Aviramam
Tells the effect of consumerism and recession on the upper middle class family. The value of relations and its depth is potrayed. Nothing special.
6/10
Makal
The film handled a relevent theme, but the overall execution was no that effective to touch the viewers. Could have been much better.
6/10
Mrithyunjayam
This movie handles a horror subject. But it coundn’t escape from cliches and the total film was not that impressive.
5/10
Off Season
The film shows that some people seems to be millionairs are slum dogs, and some slumdogs are millionairs in terms of humanity. But the film lacked a good script.
5/10
Nostalgia
In on word, the film is cliched. lacked a good script and direction. The theme is tried out one, nothing is innovative there.
4.5/10
I am not judging Bridge, since the projector operator didnt show the entire film on screen. Lost the ending completly.As a whole, Kerala Cafe is a brave attempt in malayalam cinema. The film is a must watch and atleast 4 or 5 films in it are outstanding. We need such experiments a lot, though the common audience is ruined a lot now a days.
The film is made in a typical tamil cinema formula, except glamour. The film starts and moves in a predictable way. The turning point in lead character’s life is not that convincing. After that logicless sequences follow. Two songs were good in the first half. Liked them.
Second half was boring. Felt sympathy for the goondas in climax. The logic of fights and story is made with a lower class tamil audience in mind. Sindhuraj has to learn a lot about script writing.Nothing else was worth mentioning.
Rating 5.5/10