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If Shafi's last film Chocolate was crisp, yummy and delightful, his latest offering Lollypop is rather shoddy and distasteful, and doesn't excite or entertain you. In fact it doesn't even look like a Shafi film.
By Thomas T  1.5 Stars
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1 stars Lollipop goes all pop and has twists and turns galore, but with no intellect in store. Eminently (mis)directed and disastrously scripted, this jawbreaker movie deserves to remain all wrapped up and tossed straight into the trash can. - VN    Mon, 22 Dec 2008
Lollipop goes all pop and has twists and turns galore, but with no intellect in store. Eminently (mis)directed and disastrously scripted, this jawbreaker movie deserves to remain all wrapped up and tossed straight into the trash can.

Franco (Prithviraj) is an automobile mechanic who has lost his bolts, with his twin lady loves constantly at loggerheads with each other. His sister Jennifer (Roma) has dedicated her life to kicking up rows with his sweetheart Rosebella (Bhavana). There almost seems a truce in sight when Jenny gets busy being wooed by a psychiatrist, Dr. Aby (Kunchacko Boban), and waits for her brother's approval. And there's Francis (Jayasurya) too, Franco's assistant who has got the Jenny fever, but who would rather not raise his tongue lest he loses it in the process.

This one is a wizard of a script that crafts up Plan A and links it with Plan B. Seeing that there is not even a remote chance of a story in sight, Plan C is propped up. And D, and then E and F. At the end of it all, we hence have a host of plans having reached a No-further-plans-please end, clogged up and remaining as unplanned as ever.

It's funny that Lollipop suspiciously seems to have drawn its inspiration from the ever-so-forgettable Bolly film 'Josh' (2000), that was in it's turn a loose adaptation of 'West Side Story'. The Mansoor Khan directed flick had at least a visual sleekness to proclaim, if not anything else. Lollipop on the other hand, is laughably mediocre that it could easily qualify for a pure disaster.

If there's someone out there nodding their heads in disapproval, reprimanding me for being unfair since they have had a few decent laughs in the theatre, let me get my armor out in defence. And my words pretty straight. This is a loser of a film that has nothing else to offer than a hilarious Suraj who I'm sure must have cooked up his own incredibly funny pranks. Dissembling it into parts, Suraj should occupy center stage, and the rest of the cast could go on with their inane storytelling or even disappear into oblivion. No one, would really care.

There are a couple of songs that could serve as ads for earplugs. Truly horrendous! The film has a jaded feel throughout, that's absolutely mind-numbing. For the first time, I could sense a total indifference in Azhakappan's cinematography as well. I wouldn't blame him given the kind of films that we usually see him wield the camera for.

The film is a no-life zone of hideous magnitude that deserves nothing more than yawns and groans for the two and a half hours that it runs. There is neither a balance between wit or tension and not even a far-off sense of astuteness to be seen around. There's little consistency between scenes, which doesn't matter ultimately since it gradually proceeds from the familiar to the annoying to the truly maddening stuff.

This is no sugary candy on a stick, let me tell you. Flip your tongue over this Lollipop in all eagerness, and you would wish you had sunk your teeth deep into a raw bitter gourd instead.



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