Kerala Box Office : Top 5 Movies in Dec - Jan

Kerala Box Office : Top 5 Movies in Dec - Jan

Here's the Box Office update of films that did well during the months of December (2013) & January (2014) @ Kerala Box Office

1. Drishyam

Enough has been said about the film already. With about 30 crores gross, from Kerala, in 46 days the film is the biggest Malayalam hit ever. It also becomes the first Malayalam film to earn more than 40 crore [including all kinds of revenues]

 All Time Blockbuster - Industry Hit

2. Oru Indian Pranayakadha

The only Malayalam film to survive the 'Drishyam onslaught'. The film has a mega hit run @ most of its centers. Sathyan Anthikkadu factor, Perfomances of Fahad-Amala and Drishyam returns helped the film to reach success levels. 

Super Hit

3. Jilla

The film took the biggest ever opening in Kerala, but then fell due to average WOM. Life time gross expected to be around 9 crores.

Above Average - Safe for distributor [If Distribution rights were 'sold' for 3.5cr, Super Hit if its instead of Mohanlal's revenue]

4. Dhoom 3 

According to reports Dhoom 3 is the biggest Bollywood grosser in the state. The film continued at almost all centers in 2nd week and made come backs at few centers 2 weeks later.

All Time Blockbuster

5. Veeram

Even though film got good reports it didn't translate into collection.

Average - Loss for distributor

Fate of Other Notable Releases

Silence - Flop

Salala Mobiles - Disaster

Ezhu Sundara Rathrikal - Disaster considering theatrical revenues, but the producers covered all expenses from non-theatrical avenues even before the release

1983 - Released on Jan 31, took average opening but reports are extremely positive

Oru Indian Pranayakatha - Malayalam Movie Review

  Oru Indian Pranayakatha - Malayalam Movie Review

 Directed by     Sathyan Anthikad
Written by     Ikbal Kuttipuram
Starring     Fahadh Faasil, Amala Paul
Music by     Vidyasagar
Cinematography     Pradeep Nair
Studio     Central Pictures
Release dates  December 20, 2013
Country     India
Language     Malayalam

Cast

    Fahadh Faasil as Ayamanam Sidharth
    Amala Paul as Irene
    Innocent as Uthup Vallikkadan
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy

Muthumani

 

 The favorite director of Family Audience, Sathyan Anthikkad, unites with a screen writer who has rarely gone wrong, Dr. Iqbal Kuttippuram, is the USP of 'Oru Indian Pranayakatha'. Also interesting was the pairing of Fahadh & Amala, for the first time. 

Ayamanam Sidharth, a rising member of the youth wing of RDF party gets his hopes crushed when his request for candidature in the upcoming election is rejected by the high command. That's when Irene a Canada based Malayali comes to his place to make a documentary. So to make some cash and take a break from active politics he decides to join her as a friend, guide and assistant. But the actual purpose of Irene's visit is something else. what happens next forms the rest of the story.

Like all Sathyan families it tries to tell a simple story with enough humor, romance, songs etc. The films has also got a satirical touch to it, mention many recent events that took place in Kerala. The first half is a laugh riot thanks to Fahadh, who reminded us the Good old 'Mohanlal of late 80s & 90s which made his a popular star. Sathyan was able to extract the maximum out of Fahad, a avatar that we haven't seen him before in. In the 2nd half the movie takes a serious tome and moves on like a melodrama.

The expectations that the initial half of the movie couldn't bee kept in the later half. It drags a bit as Fahad's character kinda get sidelined in the proceedings. But its not that boring or bad, its just that the first half was too good and rip roaring fun.

Fahad as said above is the show stealer, once again surprises every one with a superlative performance. Amala Paul got her toughest role since Mynaa and she did reasonable good job. Her combo with Fahadh was superb, But need to work on emotional scenes. Its also commendable that she dubber for her role, but need to improve dialogue delivery as in few sequences felt like she was reading a passage from a book/paper. Innocent also did a great job in whatever sequences he got. Sathyan regulars like Mamukoya, KPAC Lalitha etc were surprisingly not in the film.

No need to rate or review a legend like Sathyan Anthikkad, he knows his craft. Writing by Iqbal is crisp and entertaining in first half, but he loses grip in the later half. Could have given it a better thought. Camera, work was good. Editing could have been crisp. It lags bit in the 2nd half. In Music section Omana thamara & Valedukkanam songs were good, rest were avoidable while the BG was very good. Kudos to Amala Paul's personal costumer & make up man for keeping it simple & not going over the top like in other language films, especially Telugu.

So in all OIPK is worth watch movie for its entertaining first half, Fahadh Faasil & Amala Paul

Verdict: Good, could have been better

Rating: 3/5



Last Word: A better 2nd half could have done wonders for the film....