Avarude Ravukal Malayalam Movie
The package of motivational sermons in "Avarude Raavukal" is a throwback to director Shanil Muhammed's debut film "Philips and the Monkey Pen," which he co-directed with Rojin Thomas. While his debut movie was tinged with inspirational elements in an endearing story, "Avarude Raavukal" falls well short of becoming a feel-good movie.
The usual tale of youngsters moving to Kochi with the hope of finding better prospect shrinks itself owing to apparent lack of imagination by the writer. Thus the purpose of the plot appears to be airing some encouraging (sometimes philosophical) speech that might change the fate of characters.
Ashiq (Asif Ali), Vijay (Vinay Forrt) and Siddharth (Unni Mukundan) reach Kochi with a plan in their mind. Coming from different social milieu, they have their own problems. But it is mainly related to their perspective to life. Only Vijay faces a sort of mental conflict that has stemmed from a tragedy in his life. Ashiq, a wannabe actor, struggles as he lacks self-confidence and Siddharth badly needs guidance to save him from his carefree attitude to life. In the company of Scobo Johns (Nedumudi Venu), you witness the flip-flop of events in their life.
When you assess the reasons for their personal problems, Shanil's script, co-written with Manu, is unable to provide a vivid justification. Instead, he devotes the scenes for characters like Manoj Kuruvila (Mukesh) and Scobo, who have been assigned the purpose of pepping up the lead characters.
The character Scobo has been conceived as a person with a tad mystery in him. He can be a game changer, but the lukewarm script gums up our expectations and the film's superficial narration, obviously, hardly provides any kind of entertainment.
A clumsy screenplay spells dooms for the movie as it leans towards the 'motivational angle.' The one-liner is riveting, but it bites the dust when the description goes wrong.
Meghna (Milana Pournami) and Shivani (Honey Rose) have little significance in the story, except being themselves in their respective scenes.
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