Roudram Review

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