SPIRIT

      Another good movie from the super director Ranjith. This movie, he decided to do with a great theme, i.e, to convey a great message. Since the release of the movie, it has been receiving great reviews, while politicians, media and people have been talking largely about the movie.
                     Ranjith, like in his two previous ventures, have tried to focus the story to a bad habit of malayalees. Through his film 'Pranchiyettan and the saint', Ranjith showed face of rich malayalees who spends anything for a name. He had also visualized through 'Indian rupee' how the malayalee youth were badly running after the money in the real estate business. Now, through 'Spirit', he have tried to convey a message against the social disaster of the enormous alcoholic consumption of malayalees.
                   The screenplay was wisely written and the dialogues were right and up to its reality and without exaggeration. Ranjith, is a man who knows affect the central characters through the right situations arising around them. This is what makes his screenplays a class apart.
                   The protagonist (Raghunandan, played by Mohanlal) is presented as a shrewd, economically well placed but highly alcoholic. The people and situations around him is visualized as highly alcoholic and how it affects the people of different classes in different ways. There are scenes which reveal how badly alcohol can affect a man as clever as 'Raghunandan'.
                    In the second half of the movie, Raghunandan comes across situations and people which compel him to quit drinking. Hence, he quits drinking. This must have been an end everyone would be hoping for the movie. But Ranjith didn't stop here because he needed to say the people that quitting from drinking is not just enough, but one need to try to make at least another man quit the same.
                   Though this extended message is inevitable, the presentation of it produced some lag in the movie, and caused a sort of boredom to the viewers. One of the last scenes, which shows that Raghunandan accepts a glass of alcohol extended to him by a friend at a party.The friend extended the drink in proposition of a toast to the recent success Raghunandan had achieved in making a man (a plumber 'Mani') quit his drinking. Raghunandan says that he accepted the glass out of polity,though he didn't like what his friend did. Given he be drunk, he would have shouted badly at this friend and spoiled the party. But it didn't happen as he was sober. What Ranjith tries to tell through this is that alcohol created the irritating behavior of the man. Thus he touches every aspect of one’s life affected by alcohol.
                 Ranjith and his crew thus really deserve a clap of appreciation for this great venture.