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Our film industry has many crooked people who go to any extent for their personal gains. One such nasty activity is the pre planned booing or howling in theaters for expelling films. From one of the assistant directors in Malayalam, I came to know about an incident which happened a couple of years ago.

In the year 2006,  Speed Track was under production and in the final stage. Theaters had charted the film. But due to many technical reasons, the film’s release got delayed. By that time the same theaters sheduled “Notebook” and released it for 2006 Christmas, eventhough Speed got completed by that time.  Inspector Garud was sheduled for 2007 Jan 26th. For avoiding clash with Garud, either Speed had to be postponed for some months, or released during Christmas itself. But it was not possible to release in December since the pre sheduled theaters have released Notebook.

It was not favorable for the makers or the hero to postpone Speed Track, as it was postponed many times earlier. Then came the third rate underplay. Pre planned booing happened in theatres playing Notebook, for creating bad word of mouth for the film. The people behind this nasty play calculated it would be an easy task as the film had new faces. There were hired guys who stood infront of Calicut Apsara theatre to spread bad opinion about Notebook to people who were arriving for the matinee show. This forced Notebook’s director Roshan Andrews to appear in the media for criticizing these anti-social elements and defending his film. Grihalakshmi films had sought police protection and two police men were appointed in 2 or 3 major centres. This rented degrading was a major factor in denying Notebook its deserved success at the box office.

During 2006 Onam, something similar had happened against Classmates during its opening days(at Ernakulam), but the powerful producer Lal’s intervention had forced the “The Don” to withdraw from the booing activity. It had led to a split between Lal and “favorite hero” who had worked together for many hit films like Kalyanaraman, Chanthupottu etc.

Now the latest victim is Lollipop which had to face this pre planned booing starting from when the titles appear on screen. Some magazines also reported indirectly about the unhealthy interests of “Crazy Gopalan” to bash Lollipop by intentional booing. But Lollipop did not have the quality to survive such degrading like in the case of Classmates. Though Lollipop didn’t deserve a success, this rented howling made the film’s case even worse.

Earlier, Kamal had casted Prithviraj for the role of “Akbar” in Perumazhakkalam. But later “the janapriyan” had ended up doing the role of Akbar. Its a known factor that he was Kamal’s assistant earlier. In the same year 2005, when Joshi announced a film with Prithviraj, there came up Lion as a Joshi project. In 2007, Fazil announced a film with Prithviraj & Mamtha Mohandas as a Vishu 2008 release with the lead character name as Mosses. Now, Mosses D Samuel is “priyanayakan”’s 2009 release. Kavya was forced to withdraw from Priyanandanan’s “Athu Mandarapoovalla” announced with Prithviraj in lead.

Majority of such behind-the-scene plays and back-stabbing never come out in media. People have to recognize the evil behind some smiling faces.

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