Law Point - Malayalam Movie Review - Kunchako Boban, Namitha Pramod

Crew

 Director: Lijin Jose Producer: David Kachappally Music: Mejo Joseph Lyrics: Rafeeq Ahmed Cinematography: Neil D.Cuhna Editing: Manoj Art Direction: Jothish Shankar Story/Writer: Devidasan 

Cast

Kunchacko Boban (Satya), Namitha Pramod (Maya), Nedumudi Venu, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Devan, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Joy Mathew, P Balachandran, Riya Saira

 Satya is a tough nut and a cunning, conniving, shifty, sneaky, scheming and down right sly of a lawyer, who goes ato any lengths or do anything to win cases. One day Sathya gets to appear for the accused in a Suicide case. Since the case hasn't been registered, he tries to convince the girl 'Maya' for an out of court settlement. Will he manage to convince her, if yes how, is everything as we see, who is playing whom, forms the rest of the story.

The title and the tag line, 'Law Point - Law gets pointless' could mislead you as there is just one court scene in the movie, that to just to establish the character of Kunchako Boban. Its basically mind games between few individuals, but by the time you get to know it, its too late. The film takes too much time to get into the track. If not for 'Maya' and superb portrayal by Namitha Pramod the first half would  have been damp squib. The second half, about 40 mins long , rushes through proceedings. The film gets exciting only at the final reels where the 'twists' are revealed, and there are quite a few of them, thrown at you one after the other. These multiple twists keep the movie from being said 'predictable' but if the scenes leading to it aren't exciting, the mission is a failure. Also the audience is not given the actual picture itself to call those twists to be jaw dropping or surprising. Still could have worked to an extent, with good direction, recent example being 7th day.

Kunchako Boban looked uncomfortable and unconvincing as the tough nut lawyer and appeared forced in the initial scenes. Namitha Pramod was, as said before, very good, in the portrayal of smart young no-nonsense girl doesn't easily give into Sathya's charms. Krishna Shankar was good and rest of the cast were okay.

Direction could have been better, the script didn't help the case too. Cinematography was good, Editing wasn't bad either. 'Oru mozhi' song has been used very well. Back ground score was okay.

In all, Law Point is Half baked mystery/thriller.

Rating: 2.5/5

Verdict: Average

Mammootty's Silence - Exclusive Movie Review

 Silence - Exclusive Movie Review

Crew

Director: V. K. Prakash
Producer: Afseena Saleem

Story/Writer: YV Rajesh
Production House: Aysha Films
Music: Ratheesh Vegha
Lyrics: Rajeev Alunkal
Editing: Mahesh Narayanan
Art Direction: M Bawa
Costume Design: Liji Preman
Makeup : Roshan.G
Release Date-December 6

Cast

Mammootty - Aravind Chandrashekhar

Pallavi Chandran 

Anoop Menon - P. Balachandran
Joy Mathew
Prakash Bare
Basil
Aparna Nair

'Silence' is a whodunnit murder mystery investigation thriller. The film was first titled 'Judgement' which was then changed to 'Ithu Veroral' before finalizing with 'Silence'

Aravind Chandrashekhar, a lawyer by profession, has been living a happy life with his wife & children. As soon as he gets appointed as a Judge in Karnataka High Court, begins to get  anonymous calls & stalkers following him affecting his peaceful life. All this leads to him re-opening an old murder case and investigating it with the help of his Police friend (Anoop Menon). Whats the link between the stalkers, the murder, who was the real culprit etc gets answered in the film.

 From the moments trailer was released people were taking about resemblances with Mohanlal's Grandmaster. But apart from 'lead character getting drawn into an investigation' there are no other similarities. 

The first half which flushes Aravind out of his comfort zone and his encounters and interactions with the mystery stalkers are pretty interesting. At about 50 mins, the first half is racy and thrilling and raises the expectation bar quite a bit which unfortunately the writer couldn't manage in the later half. The 2nd half is under whelming comparing to the promise the former one gave. It looked half baked, predictable and simple as the story gets unfold. Too many cooks spoils the brath, should have tried to rell a decent 'whodunnit' thriller rather going through many. It was a real golden opportunity which ended up as above average thanks to average 2nd half. 

Also the film raises many questions which are left unanswered thanks to a not so fool proof writing.


Mammooty was Very Good as Arvind was looking damn good to, which comes easy for him. Pallavi gets decent enough screen time and she did a good job. Rest of the cast are also good. 
VKP's direction is top notch, especially in the first half. Camera work is very good especially in the chase and Under water sequences. BG was good in the first half, but that too felt a bit over board in the second. Songs (or bit songs) forms a part of the narration, which are passable. Editing is efficient, helping to keep the raciness necessary for a thriller. Writing is good in the first half, the film has got quite a few nice dialogues too.

Silence is a decent watch thanks to the good first half. Its a decent thriller, but not comparable to Grandmaster or Mumbai Police or Memories the recent critical as well as box office hits from Mollywood that falls in the same genre. 

A nice weekend/evening time pass movie which you can watch with your entire family

Rating 2.75/5

Above Average