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Cycle is the second film of writer James Albert after his hilarious work Classmates. Cycle tells the story of two youngsters Roy(Vineeth Sreenivasan) and Sanju(Vinu Mohan) who represent todays youth. Both of them have enough financial problems. Roy works as a cashier in a private finance company and Sanju works in an electronic show room. Roy is having a crush on Annie(Bhama) who is working in a travel agency in the neighbourhood of his firm. Sandhya plays Meenakshi who falls for Sanju.

The movie starts with a scene happening in Mumbai in the past. There happens a small crime and the story starts revolving in the present that is 20 years later. James Albert’s brilliant script connects each and every lead character to the main plot in a very cunning way. He portrays the “cycle” effect of small incidents in human life and as a whole there happens a big cycle in the story line. Johny Antony directs a sensible film for the first time in his career. He has a future, if he selects the script carefully.

In performance, Vineeth Sreenivasan has the minor faults of a newcomer but his charater suits him like tailor made. Vinu Mohan and Bhama have improved from Nivedyam, and Sandhya has also done justice to her role. Jagathy Sreekumar excels as the greedy financier and Saikumar and team handles the negative roles. Mejo Joseph’s music is apt for the needful songs and “puthiyoreenam” shines among the rest.

The real hero of Cycle is its script itself. James has succeeded in developing the thread carefully with needful links and connecting the links brilliantly to form the final plot. The only negative point is the slap stick comedy brought in for a scene in the final thrills. Johny Antony’s only fault was that scene, but he handles the new actors with immense care. In short Cycle is a must watch film which has loads of freshness and immense energy level.

Rating 7.5/10

Roudram is a typical police-politics formula film from Ranji Panicker. The movie tells the story of an assistant commissioner Narendran(Mammoootty) and his investigation in a murder case. A local drug supplier gets killed by the villains in front of the audience and Narendran starts the investigation to “find” the murderer. In his investigation, Narendran goes through all the current political issues happening today. There is not any story line in Roudram more than this.

The major draw back of Roudram is that Ranji Panicker still sticks on to his ten year old formula of making a political/police movie. For starting the movie, he creates a muder and  what follows is strictly predictable. Investigation officer comes in, getting introduced when a bad police officer is making an assualt to a common man, and hero starts the dialog rain there.  A senior officer is there to protect the hero and enough villains.

Ranji Panicker has created enough sparkling dialogs for Roudram. But his direction fails miserably, so as the script. Hero spits the dialogs, turns back, put his sun glasses on and walks in slow motion. Ranji is still living in the last century. His old movies like Commisioner, King etc were directed by Shaji Kailas. Ranji Panicker fails to make the film visuallly appealing. An experienced cameraman and an editor can shoot this film easily if they are having the script.

In performance, Mammooty is good in dialog delivery and there is nothing more to perform with emotion. His screen presence is the biggest plus point of Roudram. Sai Kumar plays the villain named Sethu and Vijaya Raghavan supports him well. New heroine Manju does not have anyhitng to do in this movie. As compared to Ranji’s previous directional venture BharathChandran IPS, Roudram is only its shadow.

Verdict: Avoidable
Rating: 4/10

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