New Malayalam Films: Kanyakumari Express

New Malayalam Films: Kanyakumari Express: "Movie : Kanyakumari ExpressDirector : T.S. Suresh BabuMusic : SharrethCast Suresh Gopi, Babu Antony, Sarayu Imagine a hero and villain fight..."

Kanyakumari Express

Movie : Kanyakumari Express

Director : T.S. Suresh Babu

Music : Sharreth

Cast
Suresh Gopi, Babu Antony, Sarayu

Imagine a hero and villain fighting to kill each other with their sunglasses intact! And the hero ducking away so easily from a bullet fired at point blank range!

Well, such unintentionally funny acts happen one after the other in director T S Suresh Babu’s Kanyakumari Express. Irritatingly boisterous, poorly written and pathetically executed, this film is a complete disaster from the word go.
Mohan Sankar Achary (Suresh Gopi) is a daredevil DIG of Police, who is brilliant and efficient, but dumb enough to go for a meeting with the Chief Minister wearing a ‘lungi’. He tries to nab the culprits behind the kidnap of Hema (Sarayu), the daughter of a rich diamond dealer. MO< But she is found dead, even after 26 crores worth diamonds have been handed over to them. In a ridiculous story, where new characters just come out of the blue and senseless twists happen faster than a rollercoaster, it is possible to lose interest in the storyline so easily.
Every clichés that is usually associated with the commercial masala entertainers can be found here aplenty. But the problem is that they haven’t been used intelligently and no one associated with the film seems to have any idea about the way the story was proceeding, while making it. The production values are tacky and less about most technical aspects, the better.
Suresh Gopi tries to mimic some of his own fantastic police-officer roles from the past, but has evidently lost his charm. Babu Antony, who plays the main villain, has to portray a half-baked character and that is evident from his performance. The rest of cast, which includes Jagathy Sreekumar, doesn’t impress either.
Kanyakumari Express, with a title which is not much relevant to the story, is just under two hours long. There is a behind-the-scenes footage that is shown in rather elaborate detail before the end credits start rolling.
If those involved in the making of this silly misadventure had cared to devote even half of those efforts while making the actual film, things would have been different. Why waste time on this one?

College Days

Movie : College Days

Director : G.N. Krishnakumar

Cast :    

Indrajith, Biju Menon, Sandhya, Dhanya Mary

You may like director G N Krishnakumar’s College Days or not, but the inherent sincerity that it has, cannot be denied. Of course, the film suffers from a rather ordinary storyline and script, but the nice visuals, music and performances need to be appreciated.

Athira (Bhama), a first year medical student, is killed by a notorious gang of three boys and two girls in a medical college. But the wrongdoers are left scot free after a few, including the Principal of the college played by Jagathy Sreekumar, testify in support of them. Sometime later, a new student named Rohit Menon (Indrajith) joins the college as a house-surgeon.
He take on the gang on the first day itself and all their efforts to retaliate go in vain. The baddies, led by the powerful Home Minister’s son, decides to take revenge on Rohit at a plush hotel, but things go horribly wrong for them. Rohit is killed and the investigation done by Commissioner Sudheep Hariharan (Biju Menon) unveils some startling facts.
Well, the storyline lacks much novelty but the way it has been executed pep things up. At around two hours and forty five minutes, the film seems like a never ending saga and this could be one of the major let downs here. In the absence of a solid script to bank on, the film struggles to a great extent. However camera by Sujith Vasudev and music by Ronnie Raphael are among the highlights.
Indrajith looks handsome and tough, which suits his character perfectly well. Biju Menon does the role of the brilliant cop quite efficiently. Sandhya and Dhanya Mary do an impressive job as part of the ‘wicked gang’. The rest of the cast too have done their job in a fine way.
College Days could be a classic case of not using the resources well. One gets the feeling that if it was approached with more passion and discipline, it could have been a nicer movie. Still, it won’t be surprising if many find it better when compared to some of those celebrated movies that have come out during recent times.