Boot Review

Shaji Kailas’ latest directional venture “Sound of Boot” is a change of approach from his usual political masalas. The film starts with the retirement function of three police officers, played by Risa Bava, Bheeman Raghu and Rajan P Dev.  After the function all three disperses and Risa Bava’s character gets killed in his journey to home. Suresh Gopi comes in for the investigation, but on the next day second officer also gets killed and his only daughter getting kidnapped. Bala plays the role of a suspect.

Form there on, the movie starts an innovative journey that is some what unfamiliar to malayalam cinema. But the script writer Rajesh Jayaraman fails to avoid the predictability in the story line. The mystery becomes complete in the first half and the second half reveals the suspense. But it fails to thrill the viewers upto an extent. The whole film is shot in the backdrops of Munnar and Rajarathnam’s camera work is good in capturing the beauty.

One of the major improvements from Shaji Kailas is that, he has used only necessary characters in this film. His usual politicians who controls the investigation and hero’s dialog rains are complety absent in Boot. The story line got more importance than the hero, which is a rare thing in Shaji Kailas films. In performace, Bala and Murali has done a decent job.  Suresh Gopi is good as usual. The two girls are only for some tickling scenes, especially Lakshana.

A major flaw of Boot is that many points are left without explanation in the second half. The script fails in concluding the movie by closing all the dangling links. Boot is shot in a different colour tone, and the audience will feel some freshness in the visuals. Shaji and Rajesh Jayaram could have made the script more gripping and the movie would have been a good

suspense thriller.

Rating: 5.5/10