Actually Malayalam Movie

Feature Film | 2014
Critics:
'Actually' is a film that is muddled up in unimaginable ways. A thumbs down for this one!
Dec 7, 2014 By Veeyen


It's unbelievable that films like 'Actually' make it to the screens, from a shaky idea on paper to discussions and then further on to actual production. It's even more astonishing that never once was there a reservation regarding the prospects of this film, and that all the gaping narrative holes in it were left undiscovered.


The film starts off somewhere and then takes you off on an altogether different tangent, making you wonder where the customary fusion is bound to take place. A man (Sreenivasan) meets with an unfortunate end in the most uncharacteristic of circumstances. There is Deepak (Hemanth Menon) who has been chucked out of a job, and Priya (Sneha Unnikrishnan) who is a naive belle lost in the city woods.


Do not presume that an eventful tale is in the offing, since 'Actually' has plenty of characters moving around as if blind folded, with no destination in sight. They keep bumping into each other, mouthing incoherent whispers, making no sense whatsoever neither to themselves nor their onlookers.


The big problem surfaces, when as a viewer you start demanding that a credible story be told. Forget that its devoid of any bombshells or shockers, it doesn't even have the requisite dramatic interest to keep you occupied.


Half way through the film, you start looking around to see if there are some interesting ideas in sight, and find none. Disinterest gradually gives way to annoyance and at times even anguish, as mediocrity is celebrated to the core.


The sinkhole of twaddle that the film drops you into is beleaguered with tedium and monotony. Here is a forewarning that you need to stay as far away from the film as you can. It could wreak havoc on a much valued weekend, throwing a revolting jumble of cliches and inanities all over your bored-to-death, immobile self.


I wouldn't blame the actors in 'Actually' for being a part of it. One wonders though how Sreenivasan could be coaxed into doing a role that deserved no actor in particular; forget an artiste of his calibre. Hemanth Menon does the very best that he can, in the truly restricting circumstances that he finds himself in, while Sneha Unnikrishnan makes do with an adequate act.


'Actually' is a film that is muddled up in unimaginable ways. A thumbs down for this one!


NB: With barely a couple of people to watch it on the very first day, 'Actually' seems to have done miserably in the promotion department as well. And I'm certainly not surprised that it has made a silent exit from the screens the following day.


Veeyen

   

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