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Chinatown (2011) - Malayalam Movie Review

Cast and Crew :

Starring : Mohanlal, Jayaram, Dileep, Pradeep Rawat, Captain Raju, Kavya Madhavan, Poonam Bajwa, Dipasha, Shankar, Shanavas, Jose, Jagathi Sreekumar, Maya Viswanath, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Bindu Asokan, Lakshmi, Deepu Karunakaran
Directed by : Rafi Mecartin
Produced by : Antony Perumbavoor
Written by : Rafi Mecartin
Singers : M. G. Sreekumar, K. S. Chithra, Jassie Gift, Manjari, Rajalakshmi, Afsal, Pradeep Palluruthy, Ranjith, Rijiya, Kavalam Sreekumar
Lyricist : Anil Panachooran
Music by : Jassie Gift
Cinematography : Azhagappan
Editing by : Don Max
Studio : Aashirvad Cinemas
Distributed by : Aashirvad Release through Maaxlab

If you are a great fan of comedy film and don't care much about the logic, Rafi Mecartin's multi-starrer China Town is yours! As a comedy film, it meets the expectations very well till the break, but the second half doesn’t live up to the mark and in the process, it breaks your heart.

China Town largely had great potential to amuse the audience with an overwhelming level of humour as the cast comprised megastar Mohanlal, Dileep, Jayaram and the comedy prince Suraaj Venjaramood, but the film emerged as a dull affair altogether and it seems to have even failed to please Mohanlal fans.

China Town begins with a story of four friends who run a gambling shop in Goa back in the 80s. Quite a sight to see Mohanlal with co-stars of the 80s Shankar, Prem Navas and Captain Raju gamboling in their bell bottoms and prancing in care-free hippy style. The flash back ends with a gross murder that ends their lives. But one of them survives along with their 3 sons. No, no revenge this time when the kids grow up! The survivor brings up the three kids – Lal, Jayaram and Dileep.

Jayaram (Zacharia) in an unusual gluttonous role played very well except for an awkward wig. Dileep (Binoy), a jobless Romeo, gives a good performance. Mohanlal (as Mathukkutti) is a wanna be ‘Don’. Kavya Madhavan plays Rosamma and she does a fair role except in a few scenes. The first half rocks with a lot of interesting scenes and the tempo is excellent. In the second half, Captain Raju (survivor) brings these three sons to Goa - China Town - to give them back their gambling shop. The villain is still around – bigger and meaner. The slide begins somewhere here.

In the second half, we get an impression that the film has some similarities with Hollywood flick Hangover and the inclusion of the Hangover story by the script writer (the director himself) is the biggest flaw in the movie. Introduction of Ranjini and all the reality show contestants probably was a touch unnecessary. Suraaj is okay in the comic role, but what extra comedy can he bring up when the film already has Mohanlal, Jayaram and Dileep?

The film has music by Jassi Gift and he has done some impressive songs. Editing and special effects are quite interestingly done. All in all, an excellent first half, but a disappointing second is all about China Town.

Christian Brothers (2011) - Malayalam Movie Review

Cast and Crew:

Starring: Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Sarath Kumar, Lakshmi Rai, Kanika, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Kavya Madhavan
Directed by: Joshiy
Produced by: A. V. Anoop, Maha Subair
Written by: Udayakrishna, Siby K. Thomas
Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Rimi Tomy, Shweta Mohan, Nikhil, Ranjith,
Lyricist: Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri
Music by: Deepak Dev, Rajamani(Background Score)
Cinematography: Anil Nair
Editing by: Ranjan Abraham
Studio: AVA Productions, Varnachithra Big Screen, Medimix
Distributed by: Varnachithra Big Screen

To be frank, ‘Christian Brothers’ is a film that baffles me when I sit down to write the review. To be honest, I am not impressed with the movie. I don’t even feel like seeing it once again; I am one of those who’d love to see some of the old hits of Joshiy again and again. Personally speaking, I won’t give the film as much rating as I am going to.

But when I ask myself as to what else I expected to see, I am baffled. Indeed ‘Christian Brothers’ is almost exactly what I expected it to be- a smaller version of ‘Twenty-20’. It’s basically a film for Mohanlal fans and is scripted in such a manner as to give space to the co-stars too.

Captain Verghese Mappilai (Saikumar) has two sons and two daughters. The elder son Christie (Mohanlal) is in Mumbai, with lots of underworld connection. The younger one (Joji) is abroad; his father had sent him to become trained for priesthood, but now he has fallen in love with a girl named Meenakshi (Kavya Madhavan) and has left the seminary. It’s when Meenakshi, who reaches Kerala and whose father (Devan) is the Home Minister, is kidnapped and a huge amount demanded as ransom that Christie is called in. Christie is now said to be a high-profile police informer and he is brought in to save Meenakshi. He does that, quite easily, but very soon he himself is arrested, on charges of murder. It’s the very daring and upright police officer Joseph Vadakkan (Suresh Gopi) who is up in arms against him. Then enters Andrews (Sarath Kumar) from Mumbai, who has a purpose behind his arrival.

Into this is woven the story of the villainous Kumaran Thampy (Vijayaraghavan) and his equally villainous sons and son-in-law, who are all against Verghese Mappilai and family for some other reasons. It’s action, drama, sentiments all moving on to a predictable climax.

There’s nothing new or great about ‘Christian Brothers’, except perhaps the coming together of Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep and Sarath Kumar. But on the whole it’s a Mohanlal film and all the other characters have been created to prop him up.

Since ‘Christian Brothers’ is almost the thing that I hoped to see, I was not totally disappointed and I am sure that you too won’t be disappointed. It’s what we want it to be or rather what we expect it to be.

Performances

‘Christian Brothers’ is not much about performances; it’s more about the presence of popular stars. Almost all of them, including Mohanlal, have put in OK kind of performances. There is nothing outstanding. The only actor who rises above the ordinary is perhaps Saikumar, who is sort of overshadowed by the presence of so many stars. The actresses however lack importance. The key roles could have been done by anyone, especially the characters played by Dileep and Sarath Kumar and hence it’s evident that these stars have been brought in just to make it a star-studded affair.

Technical aspects

The cinematography, editing and art-work suit the theme and contribute to making the film a ‘big’ thing.

Music

Songs, penned by Kaithapram and set to tune by Deepak Dev are just about OK.

Script

Sibi.K.Thomas and Udayakrishna once again does what they have been doing all these years- namely mixing up things that are very much familiar and oft-repeated and coming up with a blockbuster. They must be appreciated for the effort they have put in to give each of the four key actors due importance.

Direction

Joshiy is very much in control of things, as he usually is. The film is in essence a Joshiy film, but I won’t say that I liked it as I had liked some of his all-time bests.

Overall Verdict - Strictly for fans, OK for a one-time watch. Nothing great!

Dileep Injured In a Bomb Blast While Shooting

Actor Dileep got injured in a bomb blast while shooting for the movie Orma Mathram. The team for Orma Mathram, was shooting the bomb explosion scene at the Eloor Market. Dileep suffered a minor injury on his hand, but went on with the shooting.

Dileep was shooting the scene with Master Siddharth, who plays his son. The bomb blast part is an important sequence in the film as the rest of the story is about the fathers search for his lost son in the blast.

Priyanka is the heroine.

Directed by Madhu Kaithapram, Orma Mathram is produced by Horizon Films. It is the third directorial venture of Madhu Kaithapram who earlier directed the critically acclaimed and award winning movies Madhya Venal and Ekantham.

Chinatown (2011) - Malayalam Movie Review

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