Oru Nuna Katha Malayalam Movie

The premise of Oru Nunakkatha is absurd, and the disaster-prone script is doomed. Maybe we should just pretend that all that we had seen on screen was just a fallacy. Aug 8, 2011 By Veeyen

They say superstitions rule the industry. Probably that's true, since one needs to believe in something absolutely supernatural, if one decides to make a film like 'Oru Nunakkatha', that ironically talks of the ways of showbiz.

It's a tough task delving into the story of the film as such. Perhaps it would suffice to say that its all about a struggling actress Aswathy who has to make a tough choice between a career and love. On second thoughts however, the film looks like its more about a struggling director who would go to any extent to see to it that his third film is not a flop.

Let me make things a bit more clear. We have this director consulting a fortune teller to find out what he should do to ensure that his new film is a hit. And the idea that the quack comes up with is funny. He instructs the director to offer a human to the angry gods, and the director casts his eyes on the budding actress.

Isn't that hilarious? Well, the girl obviously has a bit of a history back at college. She was just about to fall in love with someone there, when she had got the offer to act in serials. She had never looked back hence, but there seems to be a problem. She years for that college mate day and night, and when he finally lands up on her shooting location, everything turns out to be perfect.

The script of Oru Nunakkatha sounds and feels like a tattered rag, with bits and pieces tied up unevenly. It's just a succession of dialogues that makes no sense whatsoever. The film starts off on a campus, and when the girl disappears moves out of the campus. It then goes on to tell the sob story of the girl herself who is a struggler. The spotlight soon falls on the director himself and the story all on a sudden swerves in a new direction.

They had Tamil comedian Vivek splashed all over the posters, and this was expected to be mark his grand entry into Malayalam films. To be fair to the actor, he is the only one who makes Oru Nunakkatha bearable. The only one dialogue that is worth remembering in the film is uttered by the actor as well. Playing a cop who aspires to be an actor, Vivek requests the director to give him a sober role in the film. The reason is that, however much he has the audience in splits, and however much people laugh their guts out at his performance; he wouldn't be considered for the National Award for Best Actor, if it's a comic role.

There are a host of other actors as well in the film; known and unknown ones, who go about doing their jobs as the script demands. The technical department is just about fine as well.

The premise of Oru Nunakkatha is absurd, and the disaster-prone script is doomed. Maybe we should just pretend that all that we had seen on screen was just a fallacy.