FRIDAY

                                          FRIDAY MALAYALAM MOVIE REVIEW

     

          Friday is a movie that came out to form a link in the chain of new generation movies in Malayalam. It represented a great theme and idea. But this theme and idea couldn’t be well supported by its script.

          Since ‘Friday’ being only the first movie from its director ‘Lijin Jose’, its failure in living up to the expectations could only be seen as a first timer’s starting trouble. Lijin Jose has done well in his short film ‘Conditions Apply’, but ‘Friday’, as a feature film couldn’t be a fully satisfying venture.

          The movie came out as a new generation venture. But it couldn’t be fully called so. There were instances that made it feel like one, but the screenplay was very weak in establishing the new generation trend.

          The initial phase of building up of the story was too lagging and dragging, as was the end. ‘Najeem Koya’, couldn’t make his screenplay strong enough to make the audience feel the story and the intensity of the situations. There was a kind of dryness in the whole script and the character sketches. It even included unwanted characters. Like a pregnant beggar roaming around and giving birth to her second child and then again walking around with her two children. Apparently, this character never forms a link in any part of the story.

The story was moving forward with great drag and so even the songs couldn’t generate much interest in the movie. The movie represented the great theme of the incidents occurring during a single day around a few people in a town. So, there were a great lot of dramas expected from it. The main failure of the movie was in not realizing the expectation of huge drama from the theme it represented.

Like in all his ventures, ‘Fahad Fazil’ has done absolutely well in ‘Friday’. Only the scenes with him showed the only traces of the new trend. Well, it seems that the moviemakers now think that including Fahad, pregnancy and delivery scenes, and making the whole story roll around within a day would make a new generation hit. But they fail to realize that it needs to be supported with a strong screenplay.

With the first movie from Lijin Jose being an above average venture, the hopes for better movies from him are still on.