Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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I was awake for another 2 hours after the movie ended even though it was around 1 am. It had surely left a bad taste.

Well, it was neither any of those scary movies having disturbingly long spells of silence, when you know that any moment something can make you scream (remember Psycho series!) nor was it any kind of movie which disturbed you so much with its theme/story line that it keeps coming back in flashes for a few days(reminds me of deshadanam which was hard to get out of mind!)

This was a very very ordinary and fit to be easily nominated as a crap mallu movie which typically qualifies to be aired on one of those volvo/semi sleeper buses to Kerala. Forget the name, cast, even the story-line for that matter, coz they not worth enough to be discussed on a blog, and that too on my blog where I have never discussed movie reviews! But forgetting the story-line would mean my post lost a part of its content and reference, so lets keep it referenced, but brief :)

The movie is all about glorifying the "an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth" principle (like any other mallu movie classified generously as "action movie".duh!). So completely drenched in human blood that the movie overlooks capturing anything remotely real!

The movie has a local tamil leader(obviously a goonda, there has never been a good tamil leader in mallu movies!) who kills people at his whims and fancies. He cuts arms, uses swords,sticks to make people spit buckets of blood from the mouth as if they have 1 litre of blood packet in their mouths ready to be broken the moment villain hits their throat. Our hero's dad also was a victim.

Hero comes back to sell the house bought by his dad which happens to be in the same kingdom of the goonda. Now hero and goonda spit more blood, cut more arms, legs, heads... again buckets of blood..and then one of them dies (no points for guessing who dies in the end!) and movie ends.

So pathetic a movie it was! And I felt so ashamed of myself to have stayed awake and watched till they flashed "The end"!

What are these kind of movies made for! Who are the people who will watch this with interest? Who in the world would like to see so much of blood shed? And what on earth does the director (bang his head please!) mean at the end??? And just where on earth does so much blood shed happen these days???

I mean, are we fools to accept this kind of "action movies"????

The movie and the director not just left a bad taste, it bugged me so much that I was awake till 3 :-S

PS - I believe there are many mallu(or other language) movies of this flavour so there is no point giving a verdict for this particular movie, but in case you are curious to know, its "Panthayakkozhi" (whatever that means! Sigh!)

6 comments:

sandeep said...

you were awake coz the seat was short and there was no leg rest.. rt?? ;-)

anyway, you can't say it was accepted by ppl.. it's probably a flop..

not true with all south indian languages.. this is a common theme there..

vimalgasper said...

This was a movie which I watched in 1hr or less. So can't comment on the quantum of blood shed. But, true it was a flop except for a song or two.
You don't know the meaning of "Panthayakozhi"?Jukuthsavaham, Panthayakozhi is the cock used in Cock Fight...

vimalgasper said...

avasaanam oru blog ezhuthan ee padam thanne kaanandi vannu, alle...

frahar... said...

hi hi hi..... kollam....
iniyum ingane kore 'nalla' films kaanatte ennu aashamsikkunu....

Rat said...

to sleep in knr-blr route is a challenging project in itself. This movie would hav very well aided your cause. njaan bloo skreen bannappo onnu kannadachu. pinne majestic majestic enna vili kettapalaa eneetey :D

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