DA THADIYA

          AASHIQ ABU had repeated his magic of youthful success through 'DA-THADIYA'. A fully youth-oriented movie, that is what 'DA-THADIYA' is. The simple style of story-telling that AASHIQ ABU had in 'SALT N PEPPER' as well as '22 FEMALE KOTTAYAM' is also followed in 'DA-THADIYA' which makes the movie beautiful.

          'DA-THADIYA' is the story of 'Luke John'(Played by SEKHAR MENON) who is obese. The complexes and habitat of the obese Luke is discussed beautifully in the movie. SEKHAR MENON had done his role in this debut venture very well. ANN AUGUSTINE, NIVIN PAULY, SREENATH BHASI and senior actors like IDAVELA BABU, MANIYANPILLA RAJU etc had performed well in this AASHIQ ABU movie.

          Along with discussing the problems and conditions of Luke, the movie also sarcastically points finger towards few political and social conditions of Malayalees. A lot of fun and youthfulness in the movie makes it interesting.

          The script is beautifully framed by SHYAM PUSHKARAN, DILEESH NAIR and ABHILASH S KUMAR. It had made the full use of the central character. All the twists and turns that can be created using the central character is beautifully included in the script. Although it makes a lot of fun out of the obese Luke, it never breaks any limit.

          As was in AASHIQ ABU's previous ventures, BIJIBAL had done the music for the movie as well as SHYJU KHALID the camera. Both had done their work beautifully.

          The fight scene prior to the climax was clearly adopted from the Hollywood animation movie 'KUNGFU PANDA'. This creates a feeling that the whole thread of the movie was adopted from 'KUNGFU PANDA'.

            With another beautiful movie, AASHIQ ABU had strengthened his place in Malayalam film industry.

BAVUTTIYUDE NAMATHIL

                                    

          BAVUTTIYUDE NAMATHIL is the film MAMMOOTTY - RENJITH team had done after 'PRANCHIYETTAN & THE SAINT'. Although it was RENJITH who wrote the script, G.S. Vijayan directed it. it was the return of G.S. Vijayan to Malayalam films after 12 years (his previous film was coverstory (2000)).

            Many instances in the movie represents the punches of a typical RENJITH script. The usual criticism to Malayalees appears many a times in the movie. Apt dialogues were also nicely included in the script. The story being based in Northern Kerala, the Malabar slang of its characters was inevitable. None in the movie presented it with sarcasm or exaggeration.

            'Bavutti'(played by MAMMOOTTY), being an orphan is portrayed as a character who values for relationships very much. His attachment to 'Sethus'(played by 'SHANKAR RAMAKRISHNAN') family is nicely discussed in the movie. KAVYA MADHAVAN had played her role of 'Vanaja' very well.

            Although the script by RENJITH was the main attraction of the movie, it can only be rated as just an average venture & nothing more. As ' BAVUTTIYUDE NAMATHIL' succeeds 'MAMMOOTTY - RENJITH' team's 'PRANCHIYETTAN & THE SAINT ', it was awaited with a great lot of expectations. But MAMMOOTTY's performance as 'Baavutti' comes nowhere near the shadows of 'Pranchiyettan'. Even 'Bavutti's' characterization wasn't strong enough to make the audience feel him.

            Though RENJITH's script gave strong backbone to the movie, the direction wasn't good enough to meet the expectations it had created before its release. In fact many scene & styles in the movie made it feel little over and bored.

            Although it wasn't RENJITH who directed the movie, his usual teammates, RAFEEQ AHMED and SHAHBAZ AMAN are also part of this movie. SHAHBAZ AMAN had done the music to lyrics of RAFEEQ AHMED in 'BAVUTTIYUDE NAMATHIL'. The title song was wonderfully done by this team.

            Considering the movie in its whole, it is just an average movie. But it never does any harm to the hopes of good and better movies from RENJITH.