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    MUMBAI POLICE

    Investigative genre of movies are hard to make since you have to keep the audienece guessing till the climax to reveal the suspense. For us, the malayali audiences, investigation movie means Mammooty's CBI series and we have been accustomed to the cliches's associated with such movies, like interoggating the suspects, finding some overlooked clues, showing some random person as the culprit to confuse the audience's etc etc since all such movies that have been made after CBI Dairy Kurup has been like this. Roshan Andrew's latest offering Mumbai Police is an exception to this.

    Mumbai Police has been in the news for a long time for all the wrong reasons and also Roshan-Bobby-Sanjay trio is coming after a debacle called 'Casanova'. Mumbai Police tell the story of 3 police officers, Farhan(Rahman), Antoney(Prithviraj) and Aryan (Jayasurya) often called as the 'Mumbai Police' by the media. During a felicitation ceremony Aryan gets shot and he dies and Antoney is assigned to investigate the case. He finds the culprit and before he could reveal the name, he meets with an accident and his memory is lost. Now Anotney has to not only find the culprit again but also to find who he was?

    Mumbai Police has all that regular ingredients of a Investigation movie, but it doesnt have the cliches associated with such a genre. The story is more focused on the emotions of Anotney as he struggles to find himself.Due to this unconventional narrative the movie takes it time to unveal especially in the first half. The 2nd half is comparatively breezy before you are given a 'shocking climax'. I wont call it as Shocking but its more about the acceptance factor and also is unconvincing as the story stresses the important of friendship every now and then.

    Prithviraj has been doing some good roles of late and MP is yet another one to the list. He has been a talking subject in the online media's for sometime and his character of Antoney Mossess is sure to receive brickbats and some unwanted comments. Rahaman and Jayasurya does their role neatly even though Jayan has lesser screen time compared to the others. Other characters are just for the sake of it as the story revolves around this trio.

    On the tech side camera work is nothing much to rave about and BGM by Gopi Sundar is fine in parts. The editing could have been little sharp in the first half where the movie tends to slow down.

    On the whole MP is not your regular run of the mill investigation movie, it has a pattern of its own. But the acceptance factor still remains...??


    Rating : 3/5

    Kazhakuttam Krishna | 3.5.2013 | Second Show | HF + Extra Chairs


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    HOTEL CALIFORNIA

    HC is the latest offering from Anoop Menon's stable of new gen movies. He continues with his best friend Jayasurya yet again and almost all the characters from TVM Lodge are also there. As like Anoops previous movies there is no much story and the movie is all about the life of various characters and the confusion that occurs at an airport. The first thing that comes to your mind on hearing this storyline is some old comedy movies by Priyadarshan. Even though there are numerous characters in the movies, story mainly focusses on 'Airport Jimmy' played by Jayasurya.

    Director Aji John seems to be a wannabe Amal Neerad as he tries to hard to make a stylish movie(a Babu Namboothiri in a yo yo style) and succeeds in parts. The script has numerous referecnes to the current social scenarios and taking a dig at them including Anoop Menon himself. There are some hilarious one liners but the script doesnt have a proper flow and also some episode sticks out like a sore thumb. For eg, the initial scenes of Maria wanting a baby through artificial inseminaton looks boring and Nandu's terrorist epsiodes seems like a skit of comedy stars.

    Camera work is sleek eventhough it seems to be somewhat forced. The BGM by Shan Rahman is a big disappoinmnet as he irritates the viewers with his loud drum beats and crazy english raps.

    On the whole HC works only in parts, watch if if you have the time for that parts

    Rating : 1.5/5

    Kadinamkulam V Tracks | 5.5.2013 | Matinee | About 30-40%

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    Mumbai Police
    Kazhakuttam Krishna | 3.5.2013 | Second Show | HF + Extra Chairs



    thanks macha.....
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    Hf with extra chairs

    thanx macha

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    Good reviews..
    Mammootty proves yet again that he was, is and will always be the MASS ka BAAP & also CLASS Ka BAAP
    The Mega Star & The Best Actor!

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    Quote Originally Posted by vishnugk88 View Post
    Hf with extra chairs

    thanx macha
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    thanks macha.....
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    Good reviews..
    Welcome All..

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    Thanks bhai....

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    Nice review(s)


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    thanks singham....


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    Thnx SIngam.....................

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