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Maniyarayile Ashokan (2020)
Maniyarayile Ashokan is a half baked movie confused between Drama and Slice of life
The movie is about ashokan's search for a suitable bride. He gets rejected a lot due to his skin tone and physical appearances. The story which the movie seeks to convey is important but the movie is not sure how it wants to deal with it. Thus, It is often tonally jarring due to this. It's attempt to explore the more darker water turns our shallow as the movie refuse to go all in. There is also a lot of uncessary song sequences. The movie is also not tightly edited. It feels overlong and tiring, many plot points doesn't have any pay off at the end. Overall it was a disappointing watch in an Onam Morning.
Ee. Ma. Yau (2018)
A lasting taste of Dark humor
In Ee. Ma. Yau lijo has once again built a place and a set of great characters, who feel grounded to the setting they are placed .With an ensemble cast , lijo has made a film which is rich in atmospherics and dark humor. Strong performances across the board and Shyju Khalid's beautiful night frames has elevated this films to be one of the best films to come out of the Malayalam film industry recently.
Angamaly Diaries (2017)
Stylish , Raw and well paced
Angamalie Diaries , is one of the few realistic gangster genre films from India. Though we have seen numerous gangster films . The local flavor and black comedy of angamaly diaries , makes it different. The Director has wonderfully captured , the soul of Angamaly . And some Malayalam directors he has not shied away from showing raw violence.The actor who played the character Appani Ravi has delivered a mature performance . The underlying violence in a seemingly normal city is portrayed beautifully. I need to appreciate the courage of the director to cast 76 new faces and also his courage of taking up such a theme which is not familiar to the Malayalam film industry.
Bãhubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)
A clichéd Telugu film with a bigger budget
Bahubali 2 tells the story after the war with Kalakeyas , Kattapa continues his narration of what led him to kill bahubali. The first half is simply a bigger budget Telugu film with conspicuous CGI . There is all the clichéd elements like the beautiful heroine , the hero in his all power and glory saving the heroine , the reveal scene(the hero reveal who he truly is , everyone around him will be just wonder- struck by the magnanimity of the person standing before them) , the sleazy comedy(Kattapa does the part of the foolish friend) and praising of the hero( the one thing which is refreshingly missing from the film is patriarchy) . All this mixed with bad CGI makes the first half of the movie . Now just before you start accusing me of comparing it with a higher budget English movies , let me get one thing straight I am not doing that. In Bahubali CGI was overused , by venturing into such romantic interludes in the first half the film uses CGI in places where it was not needed . Moreover the film Ex-Machina was created on a budget of 15 million while Bahubali is done on a budget of 2.5 billion. So budget alone is not an excuse for lazy CGI effects .The sets in this film also looks lavish , but all those had CGI written all over it, buildings without a speck of dirt or a crack and the statute of Bhalla Deva seemed too cartoon like . The first half also spends too much time on the romance of Amarendra Bahubali and Devasena . A tighter 2 hr film would have made a much more compelling watch.In the second half the films gets into the meat of the plot . There are some hair rising scenes in the 2nd half which fits an epic. The interesting thing is all these scenes were not of war or brawls. It was mostly the dialogues and dramas .The scene where Amarendra Bahubali dies was brilliantly acted ,shot and had a great background score to it . If the makers had realized this they could have gone for a more compelling drama with much more drawn out characters .But instead of that too much time is invested in unnecessary scenes which couldn't contribute much to the plot or to the character development .There is no time spent on the character development of Mahendra Bahubali and all that we get from the first part of the film is that he is virtuous , noble and a stalker .The climax fight scenes didn't leave an impact on me like the fights in the first part. All the fight scenes in this film requires a leap of faith in our logic . This is an epic and to a point a leap in logic is allowed , but in the last scenes Bahubali 2 took it to too far.Prabhas as Bahubali looked convincing for the most part , Satyaraj's jokes in the first half came as annoying but he did justice to his role in the second half . Nasser's acting was over the top(the villainous laugh ,so typical of villains for at least half a century was also used here) , the strongest performances in the film was given by Anushka as Deva Sena , Remya Krishnan as Sivagami and Rana Daggubati as Bhallal Deva.For me Anushka gave the best performance in the film, Anushka carried the role with grace and power and it was a believable portrayal of a strong independent women . Bahubali 2 will break all the collection record and will surely breach the 1000 crore ceiling and I will not be surprised if it hits 1500 crore mark. But is this the film we are presenting in a silver platter to world cinema? Does huge budget make up for the lack of a strong plot?. There is a general conception that Indian film don't garner much respect in the foreign film world due to our limitations in budget and grandiose like Bahubali could change this perception . This is far from the truth , Indian film don't garner the global appeal in par with the Iranian ,Japanese or South Korean films because we don't produce good content and good content doesn't need a huge budget. Salesman(The Oscar winner 2016 on the Foreign film category) is an Iranian film which is made with a small budget , but this film had a global appeal because we felt connected to its characters' and their stories .After all we are humans and stories with human emotions can transcend boundaries. India should develop a parallel space in our cinematic culture for the growth of Art Cinema so that we could give as much attention to movies like Lunchbox and Gangs of Wasseypur as to Bahubali. Anyway Bahubali is an ambitious leap by India Cinema (especially South Indian cinema) and with a 1000 crore movie in the pipeline , Bahubali seems to have given the courage to producers to make films in a grander scale with a view of Pan Indian audiences