Suresh Unnithan's 'Ayaal' has the fragrance of wet mud, damp and moist after the first downpour of the year.Steeped in mystery and intrigue, here is a film that combines a baffling narrative with visual splendor, rendering it one of the better movies of the year.
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Babu Janardhan's 'God for Sale' is a dopey exercise in film making that puts you to sleep in no time. It is both unfocused and diluted, and never really gets to express what it has in mind, (no) thanks to its almost one-dimensional characters.
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Prasanth Murali's driectroial debut 'Paisa Paisa' has a script that tries to blow up a gas balloon to mammoth proportions until it bursts right on one's face.
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The mounting tension, the hilarity, the swinging moods and the melancholy - it's all there in '5 Sundarikal', and the richness and depth retained to the hilt.
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'Money Back Policy' offers you multiple disappointments, and Sreenivasan being a part of this shoddy enterprise is just one of them.
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We do stand up for the National Anthem at the end of it all. We nod our heads at the sight of the activist caught in an embrace with the commissioner. And we simply wish things were as easy as this in this country of ours.
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Wacky at times and dawdling at others, Martin Prakkatt's 'ABCD' has plenty of highs and a few lows. The tidings of good cheer make it humorous and playful, but the tendency to get lost amidst ineffectual distractions hold it back from turning into a perfect entertainer.
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Arun Kumar Aravind's 'Left Right Left' is a daring, warm and thought provoking piece of film making that moves beyond the routine realm of politics. In shaping this hard-hitting and persuasive thriller, the director along with writer Murali Gopy deploys several inventive gambits that send formalistic structures of film making flying away in the winds.
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'Honey Bee' is a film to be savored like those quickie bites that you grab from a fast food restaurant. Its damn fun while it lasts in your mouth and you swallow it without much of a thought, knowing all the while that it never had plans to offer you something to chew on.
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Avira Rebecca's 'Pigman' could have been a precious little gem, had it not given in to the constantly underwhelming execution of a script that fizzles out after an interesting start.
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'Teens' suffers on account of its premise that's a bit too familiar, and when the smoke finally clears off, you are not too excited by the revelations that lie around. There are the flashes of excitement and the energy spurts here and there, but they are simply not enough to win an applause.
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I really have no idea as to what the makers had in mind when they decided on making a film as 'Oru Nerinte Nombaram'. But it remains that films as these will continue to be made, and would serve neither the purpose of an experiment nor of entertainment.
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