Corona Dhavan Malayalam Movie
Covid-19 serves up umpteen possibilities for deriving a tale from the harrowing experiences that everyone had undergone. Directed by C.C, 'Corona Dhavan' has a theme based on one of the hapless situations faced by some people during the unexpected lockdown period -scarcity of liquor. The director harps on the familiar events including those that appeared in media during the lockdown period as fun elements to take forward the tale. Writer Sujai Mohanraj explores how unavailability of alcohol affects a group of people and their frantic efforts to buy it at any cost. Though seemingly a riveting milieu, the creative frontiers of this flick are contrived in a bid to make the plot appealing.
Set in the village Anathadam in Thrissur, the conflict being narrated in 'Corona Dhavan' is in the backdrop of the pandemic by highlighting the problems faced by tipplers. Unavailability of liquor makes them crave for it desperately and they turn to Vinu (Lukman Avaran), who had a stack of liquor bottles bought for the revelry during his elder sister's wedding. As the boozing party on the eve of the wedding unexpectedly bites the dust, the liquor bottles in Vinu's possession become the enticing object for his friends and acquaintances in the village when the Covid-induced lockdown comes to existence the next day.
As an unemployed youth, Vinu makes his own calculations with the liquor bottles, besides planning for his elopement with his girlfriend Swapna (Sruthy Jayan). He even hides everything from his widowed mother, played by Seema G Nair. Meanwhile, Godson (Bitto Davis), an influential man with wicked activities, scouts for alcohol for his wayward brother Gladson (Sreenath Bhasi) and realises that Vinu has liquor bottles.
Moreover, police officer P P Shibu (Irshad Ali) is frantically in search of the man who destroyed the drone during a combing operation by the police. A helpless Shibu is yielding to the incessant pressure by drone operator Manu (Vijilesh) to get his gizmo back. Excise officer Sabu (Balaji Sharma) is also looking for some liquor bottles to replace them in the office stock instead of the bottles he had purloined from the office store. Eventually, Vinu becomes their target albeit the intentions are different.
With the hero's dishevelled appearance and reckless demeanour, Lukman has impressively given life to the protagonist. In fact, the film drums up adequate support from his presence itself to stretch the proceedings to an average climax. It's a dismal character being assigned to Sreenath Bhasi, sidelining him for just making commotion and eccentric expressions at regular intervals. Johny Antony appears as Sathyajith, the superior officer of Sabu, whose antics only add a nauseating effect throughout the movie. The background score by Bibin Ashok lends sheen to certain scenes.
The boozing revelry and lethargy of drunkards in such a glum period have been neatly narrated by the director albeit they are serving the purpose of adorning the peripheral areas of the tale. Apart from plainly spreading the ordinary situations, the writing fails to generate a coherent plot to leverage the underlying humour in such a theme. Here, the major conflict in the backdrop of pandemic is farfetched and insipid as genuine events and humour struggle to emerge due to lack of depth in the script.
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