Best Actor

Best Actor

Cast: Mammooty, Sruthi Ramakrishan, Nedumudi Venu, Salimkumar, Lal, KPAC Lalitha, Sukumari

Director: Martin Prakkat
Producer: Noushad
Music: Bijibal

Cinematography: Ajayan Vincent

Script: Bipin Chandran, Martin Prakkat
Review: Khan M. Jahangir

Best Actor - A truckload of freshness

Storyline: Mohan (Mammotty) is a Hindi teacher who is living with his wife and a son in a remote village.  Mohan got a deep passion for acting. It leads him to go to many directors and requesting a role in their movies. His unbridled ambition takes him to one of his old friend who is working on the script for a new movie in Kochi. He meets a new director and his crew in Kochi. They tell him he is not apt for the role because the movie is dealing a violent subject. They advice him to observe goons and gangsters in the streets of Kochi for acting effectively. So Mohan totally changes his appearance and joins a 4 member gang (Lal, Nedumudi Venu, Salim Kumar and Vinayakan) for observe and study them. The second half of the movie is all about Mohan’s life and survival with the gang.

Freshness

The debutant Martin Prakkat did very well, first with a fresh subject and again with peppy narration. Ajayan Vincent, the cinematographer, did an excellent job by showing us the different shades of Kochi. Mammootty did act in more than 300 movies for a span of more than 30 years. But still we can feel his deep passion in his acting. He did very well as Mohan and also as Bombay. The casting of Nedumudi Venu, Lal and Salim Kumar are really appreciable. Their performance is the real bonus and added more mileage for the movie, especially Salim Kumar’s comedy. The heroine Sruthi Ramakrishnan has nothing much to do in the movie but thanks to the director for finding a beautiful fresh face. The script and dialogues written by Martin and Bipin Chandran are really good. Bijibal’s music is peppy especially the song ‘swapnam oru chaakku”.

Verdict

The movie is a clean family entertainer. A total fun-filled movie with all the ingredients audience demanded. It is going to be one of the best movies of 2010.  

Rating: 3.9 out of 5