The movie deals with the familiar theme of human trafficking featuring Rohini (Shobhana) & Naveen (Dhyaan Sreenivasan)
Script & Direction - The storyline is extremely simple just like the other two films from Vineeth Sreenivasan. Eventhough the film have slight resemblance of Trade & Taken (preferably Trade), Vineeth has came up with his creativity as a writer and a director. Now we have seen how the same subject was poorly handled by Major Ravi when he commercialized the subject in his "Karmayodha". Now as far as the scripting is concerned, its not impressive. The main issue is the way incidents are developed and how it reaches the endpoint. You feel like the film lacked the "thrilling mood" on a consistent basis. Vineeth mostly concentrates on typical connecting from one person to another based on their words. You do feel the it was lackluster as far as scripting is concerned and since its credited to Rakesh Mantodi, I believe he displayed the signs of a novice writer. Its evident that Rakesh has done detailed research on this issue by coming up with various angles of this issue and how the victims are treated in such conditions etc etc etc. But if you see it in the angle of a screenplay, I wouldn't say it was good. Since the makers are planning a trilogy, I am not sure how the whole picture comes out since the other two films are yet to be made/released.
But Vineeth the director has to be applauded for a taking quite a "hatke" subject when you consider his previous outings. While his first two films were extremely, filmy, this was provided a realistic treatment. The mood was monotonous and the focus was sharp on the subject. But I can't understand why did he opt for those shaky frames was tedious to watch especially during chase and fight scenes. But during the experience, its quite evident that Vineeth knows how to keep his audience engaged. During many occasions we feel Vineeth is about to lose grip or simply lost his grip. He then comes up with a scene or a one-liner that rejuvenates the audience and bring them back to the film. But if I have to point out the highlight, it will be the manner at which Vineeth handled the last 15 minutes of the movie. If he failed, the film would have been an utter failure. He handled the emotional quotient smartly and that did help the film a lot to end up on an interesting note as the first of the trilogy.
Cast & Performance - It was Shobhana's show and if I am not wrong, this is the first Malayalam film she dubbed with her voice. The veteran actress displayed her brilliance and often lifted the movie on her shoulders like a leading actor with those one-liners. But Dhyaan lacked screen presence and was simply average with his performance. He just looked too small in scenes featuring Shobhana. Deepak Parambol was fine in his role. Then rest of the cast comprises of unknown faces where some looked wooden and some were decent.
Songs & Original Score - Shaan Rahman scored this department. I felt the songs might affect the flow of the movie but the tunes and the manner the songs were placed in bits and pieces added to the overall narration. Be it "Thazhvaaram..." (which was featured during the hunt) or "Thaazhe Nee Tharame..." (during the climax), the songs never stood apart from the film. The background score was equally terrific.
Technical Expertise - Jomon T John's work wasn't impressive. I can't understand why they had to use those shaky shots in most realistic movies. It was hard to watch in my opinion. But during the climax, he did a great job with various color tones during the night scenes. Ranjan Abraham was quite competent with his cuts and the art direction shown their prowess in the climax scenes.
Bottomline - This is the best effort from Vineeth Sreenivasan (without any doubt). But still it isn't a great effort mainly because of the weak script which didn't elevate at various points. As mentioned before, Vineeth's presentation and Shobhana's acting along with last 15 minutes played a vital role ending this film on a fine note.
6.5/10
Script & Direction - The storyline is extremely simple just like the other two films from Vineeth Sreenivasan. Eventhough the film have slight resemblance of Trade & Taken (preferably Trade), Vineeth has came up with his creativity as a writer and a director. Now we have seen how the same subject was poorly handled by Major Ravi when he commercialized the subject in his "Karmayodha". Now as far as the scripting is concerned, its not impressive. The main issue is the way incidents are developed and how it reaches the endpoint. You feel like the film lacked the "thrilling mood" on a consistent basis. Vineeth mostly concentrates on typical connecting from one person to another based on their words. You do feel the it was lackluster as far as scripting is concerned and since its credited to Rakesh Mantodi, I believe he displayed the signs of a novice writer. Its evident that Rakesh has done detailed research on this issue by coming up with various angles of this issue and how the victims are treated in such conditions etc etc etc. But if you see it in the angle of a screenplay, I wouldn't say it was good. Since the makers are planning a trilogy, I am not sure how the whole picture comes out since the other two films are yet to be made/released.
But Vineeth the director has to be applauded for a taking quite a "hatke" subject when you consider his previous outings. While his first two films were extremely, filmy, this was provided a realistic treatment. The mood was monotonous and the focus was sharp on the subject. But I can't understand why did he opt for those shaky frames was tedious to watch especially during chase and fight scenes. But during the experience, its quite evident that Vineeth knows how to keep his audience engaged. During many occasions we feel Vineeth is about to lose grip or simply lost his grip. He then comes up with a scene or a one-liner that rejuvenates the audience and bring them back to the film. But if I have to point out the highlight, it will be the manner at which Vineeth handled the last 15 minutes of the movie. If he failed, the film would have been an utter failure. He handled the emotional quotient smartly and that did help the film a lot to end up on an interesting note as the first of the trilogy.
Cast & Performance - It was Shobhana's show and if I am not wrong, this is the first Malayalam film she dubbed with her voice. The veteran actress displayed her brilliance and often lifted the movie on her shoulders like a leading actor with those one-liners. But Dhyaan lacked screen presence and was simply average with his performance. He just looked too small in scenes featuring Shobhana. Deepak Parambol was fine in his role. Then rest of the cast comprises of unknown faces where some looked wooden and some were decent.
Songs & Original Score - Shaan Rahman scored this department. I felt the songs might affect the flow of the movie but the tunes and the manner the songs were placed in bits and pieces added to the overall narration. Be it "Thazhvaaram..." (which was featured during the hunt) or "Thaazhe Nee Tharame..." (during the climax), the songs never stood apart from the film. The background score was equally terrific.
Technical Expertise - Jomon T John's work wasn't impressive. I can't understand why they had to use those shaky shots in most realistic movies. It was hard to watch in my opinion. But during the climax, he did a great job with various color tones during the night scenes. Ranjan Abraham was quite competent with his cuts and the art direction shown their prowess in the climax scenes.
Bottomline - This is the best effort from Vineeth Sreenivasan (without any doubt). But still it isn't a great effort mainly because of the weak script which didn't elevate at various points. As mentioned before, Vineeth's presentation and Shobhana's acting along with last 15 minutes played a vital role ending this film on a fine note.
6.5/10
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