Bangles Malayalam Movie
Joy Mathew makes a very special appearance in the opening sequence of the film 'Bangles', where we see him as a priest, who ventures out into a dark night, having heard an especially sweet female voice singing in the shadows. He discovers to his horror that it's a ghost all right, and she's wearing white and floating around.
Suvid Wilson's directorial debut 'Bangles' has Ajmal Ameer playing Vivek, a film maker who arrives at his bungalow at Peermade along with his newly wedded wife Avantika (Poonam Kaur). The place is spooky without doubt, and Avantika senses in no time, that not everything is all right with the rumbling mansion.
The script of 'Bangles' lies crushes and broken all over the place, just as the glass bangles that signify the title of the film. It's an age old story in fact, where an innocent girl gets brutally killed, and she refuses to leave the place even after her death.
The only thing that still remains mystifying even in 2013, is where these spirits manage to get these long flowing white gowns from. I can almost imagine them walking into a store nearby and asking for a ball gown; the kind that would fit the dead and gone kind.
Anyway, so here is the girl Angel (Archana Kavi) who looks like an angel without doubt, but who has had a life far from angelic. Trapped in love, and later slain without a second thought, she is out for vengeance, and would stop at nothing, until justice is served.
'Bangles' quite comfortably perches itself on a point somewhere between a romance and a horror tale, and disappoints whichever way you look at it. The love story is quite brittle, and the horror factor has even fewer scary elements in it.
I was actually on the lookout for a few creepy moments at least, since it turns out to be quite obvious that there is nothing more to expected of this film, after the first fifteen minutes. But there isn't a scene it that make you jump in your seats, or even twitch your eyebrows in disbelief.
Ajmal does a decent job of playing Vivek, and is equally convincing as the lover boy, and the man with shades of grey. Archana Kavi is quite good as well, and in a relatively short role, does leave a mark. Poonam Kaur, comes up with some weird expressions that could send any ghost scampering away in no time.
'Bangles' suffers from generic storytelling, and very rarely rises above the frail conception. We have seen it all before, and without doubt, we shall see it all again.
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