Salala Mobiles - Exclusive Malayalam Movie Review
Crew
Directed by Sharath A. Haridaasan
Produced by Anto Joseph
Banner Anto Joseph Film Company
Written by Sharath A. Haridaasan
Music by Gopi Sunder
Cinematography Satheesh M Kurup
Distributed by Aan Mega Media
Release dates 23 January 2014
Country India
Language Malayalam
Cast
Dulquer Salmaan as Afsal
Nazriya Nazim as Shahana
Santhanam as Alakarsami
Jacob Gregory as Benoy
Siddique
Geetha
Narayanankutty
Janardanan
Mamukkoya
Jose
Tini Tom
Raveendran
Salala Mobiles tells the love story of Afsal & Sahaana coming from families who are at the extreme ends, economically. Afsal runs a mobile shop named 'Salala Mobiles' setup with the help of his uncle & Shahana visits the shop regularly to recharge her mobile. At the very first sight of Shahana, Afsal fell head over heels in Love . The story gets a small twist with the entry of Alakarsamy, a tech freak who develops a special kind of app which change the course of their lives.
Salala Mobiles is your usual rich girl poor boy Rom-Com + Family drama. But had it sticked to that genre the film would have atleast been passed as a breezy time pass entertainer. Instead the writer (who is also the director) added plots and sub plots which are not only confusing but irritating at many parts. Even though promoted as Rom-Com the film has very few of both, or at least the viewer feels that way thanks to the inconsistent writing and shoddy narration.
The first half is comparatively watchable, the second half completely goes down the barrel and the movie ends suddenly with an unconvincing climax.
Dulquer Salmaan was okay as Afsal but we have seen quite a few of similar roles from the actor and it is high time that he chose something different, these kind of roles have become sort of cake walk for him. Imagine the horror of heroine getting sidelined in a ROm-Com, thats the fate of Nazriya in Salala. Even in the few scenes got, she just had to look good. Being a Santhanam fan, really felt this houldn't have been his debut film/role in Mollywood, even though he was good. Gregory provided the comic relief, writer tried to cash in on the ABCD duo and it worked, one of the quite few reliefs the film offered. Rest of the 'too many' cast did what they just had to do, nothing significant.
Sharath's debut as a director could gave us only a half baked product, thanks to the script written by himself (His previous script was Jayaraj's 'Rain Rain Come Again', which ended up a disaster)
Except the title song other tracks didn't quite live upto the expectations, Gopi Sundar disappointed in that aspect but did okay job with background score. Cinematography was good, specially the songs. Editing was decent.
Salala Mobiles offers nothing much, except may be for the die hard fans. The combo of Dulquer-Nazriya will help the film to take a huge opening but after that matters looks tough for the film.
Rating: A very generous 2.5/5
Verdict: 'Average'
Last Word: This Number won't be reachable for long, so fans better rush to theaters before it goes out of coverage area.
