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Good editing and graphics for the title scrolls in the beginning. One or two excellent shots by Amal as a camera man. Nice back ground score by Gopi Sunder. Atlast Hummer… There ends the positive parts of the sky hyped Sagar Alias Jacky. Nothing else.

A complete let down by director Amal and writer S N Swamy. and 100% irresponsible approach by Mohanlal. He could have worked atleast for reducing the weight when working for such a big film. He looked better in Red Chillees.

The film starts no where and ends nowhere. The script is a big ZERO. So nothing to mention about the story line. I think the name ” S N Swamy” is just used for titles. dialogs are poorly written. Amal Neerad should understand that taking slow motions and having enough rain and umbrellas didn’t create a cinema. But one shot stands out, a shot in the night while villains chase Bhavana. Brilliant lighting and camera work there. Actor Sampath had done a good job.

Action scenes (just gun shot scenes) were taken without any logic. The shooter who can kill Jacky’s friend from 2 km away cannot shoot straight into Jacky from closer dist. Jacky can shoot villains from open position(without cover) but villains with cover cannot aim atleast single bullet at open Jacky… pathetic direction from a man who learned cinema from RGV.

Then romance… similar situation like “Irupatham Nootandu”, but the makers forgot Lal’s age today. The love song was completely unnecessary. A matured romantic relation is given for Manoj K Jayan (Shobhana) but it was a teenage love for aged Jacky.

As a whole, SAJ is another attempt by today’s malayalam film makers who believe all the viewers are idiots. Our cinema is not going to survive until they change this attitude.

verdict : Stay Away

Rating 3.5 /10 ( for technical work only)

After decent scripting with ChinthaMani & an average Nadiya, A K Sajan fails miserably to write a script for Red Chillees. Just a bad rehash of Chinthamani is portrayed on the screen. Shaji Kailas has the hang over of the recent tamil films he had seen, and nothing goes creative from his side.

Film starts in a vague way, and didn’t etch anything till interval. Below average dialogs given for the girls and the slang and usage stands miles away from reality. The lead character OMR is not a developed one. Only Mohanlal’s screen presence makes the character lively.

The plot didn’t develop even in the second half too and many points go in illogical way. Red Chillees didnt create thrill at any part. The only plus point is the screen presence of Mohanlal. The looks given for him is really good. Everything else, went wrong with this film.

Verdict : Avoidable

Rating 4.5/10

Twenty20 is made only for sharing screen space of stars. Starts with crap comedy scenes of the makers’ favorite actors. Comedy for the sake of comedy, cliched to the max. Siby _Udayan tried to write a script based on three major characters, but fails miserably to form a script and ends up like a screen sharing show. The formula is again the revenge of hero (heroes here), away from the clutches of law.

The writers have tried to include enough punch lines between the three stars(Mammootty, Mohanlal & Suresh Gopi), which aims only the fans’ claps. As the film enters the second half, even the director forgets some events of the first half. Then starts the attempt for a climax which can give space for the three actors, and ends up as a mess.

Its only the screen presence that matters according to Joshy and Siby Udayan. They even try to imitate Tamil stunts (one hilarious jumping scene of Mohanlal is there with pathetic graphics). The two songs are not upto mark. Some positive sparks are there, in the scenes of Mohanlal in court. Nothing else was impressive.
Rating: 5/10