Ee adutha kalathu-My thought
Ee adutha kalathu-Brilliant execution
Cast-Indrajith Sukumaran,Tanushri Ghosh,Murali Gopy,Anoop Menon,Lena,Mythili,Jagathi Sreekumar,Nishan.
Script - Murali Gopy
Direction-Arun Kumar Aravind
Cast-Indrajith Sukumaran,Tanushri Ghosh,Murali Gopy,Anoop Menon,Lena,Mythili,Jagathi Sreekumar,Nishan.
Script - Murali Gopy
Direction-Arun Kumar Aravind
Looks like Malayalam new 'trend' is multiple story lines with connections each other.Ee adutha kalathu has multiple story lines connected each other in some manner(not as convincing as 'Traffic'. The makers(using Jagathi's voice) specifies that the story happens in 1500 years old Thiruvananthapuram. We have an young man Vishnu.Vishnu is many things rolled into one. He is a rag-picker, an errand runner, a contract pinch hitter for amateur cricket clubs, a doting father, and an obedient husband. But above all he is a family man at heart. Ramani, his fiery better half, considers him an incorrigible bum, and maybe rightly so. He has an ailing mother and two adorable daughters.As you can expect,they live in fear, in a world infested by loan sharks.
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Madhuri was a starlet in her late teens growing up in Mumbai, having dabbled briefly in a couple of Bollywood duds. She is now a home maker and a mother of an eleven-year-old boy, Ayur (a cricket crazy kid, a Rubik's cube addict). But yet, years have been easy on her and she remains a head turner. Madhuri is married to Ajay Kurien, the street smart CEO of an up market hospital in the city. He is a self made man, who climbed the ladder years ago in corporate Mumbai, as he proudly likes to recall,without trying to learn a single word of Hindi. There is a serial killer out on the prowl in the city.
These three,Vishnu,Madhuri,Ajay Kurien are the main(?) characters.There are some other wandering characters like Rustam (a North Indian bloke on some short term contract in the city),Tom Cherian(the City Commissioner of Police),Roopa(an investigative journelist).
Though I felt there is nothing, the movie never bored me.So I should say, a good script.But same cannot be said about the direction.Sometimes I felt a lack of genuineness or realism in some scenes.Or are the actors simply over acting?.But there are some genuine comedy.Cinematography and editing was good.For the song 'department', I really don't remember the lines and tune of the two songs they showed.
This is a movie which has rich 'tooooo' sound.Yes , I mean you can here so many 'toooo' beap sound in between many dialogs.Yep,there were trying to make it maximum realistic!. If you have watched the recent Malayalam films,you must be knowing that this is not a new idea!
Among the actors,Indrajith as Vishnu,has done a very good job.With his never exaggerated Thiruvananthapuram slang dialogs, in my openion he steals the show!. Tanushri Ghosh, as Madhuri was also impressive.Murali Gopy, as Ajay Kurien was natural in most of the time ,but there were scenes.where he showed what is this 'old fashioned' psychic type acting.
Anoop Menon,as Tom Cherian has nothing much for a performance.But it was a surprise ,something like I've seen in the movie 'Mars attack'. Lena ,as Rupa disappointed. Here acting as a 'investigative journalist' was not convincing, at least for me,especially in the 'live reporting' scenes.As most of the actors in the movie,she dubbed herself, and same for the dubbing also.Not fit.I just don't know why most of the Malayalam movies have their 'feminist','bold' female characters having a bob haircut.A pity wig.No idea!
Nishan, tried something different.He dubbed for the film! His broken Malayalam saves him from further acting attempts as a bad guy.Convincing.
Among other characters, Mythili, as Ramani was OK. Jagathi Sreekumar, as usual, impressive. Baiju as a gangster , has the credit for using too many 'tooooo' beeps in the dialogs.He is a gangster,remember!!.After all, all the supporting characters should perform well,remember it's a Malayalam film.
Though it earned some minus points, the movie 'Ee adutha kalathu' is worth watching( with more plus points) as the makers really tried something which was not common in Malayalam.
