One of the kids in 'Lucky Star', shooting a video on a
mobile camera, exasperatedly comments that these
days almost all birdbrains have become film directors.
Deepu Anthikkad, director of 'Lucky Star' however
quite confirmedly ascertains that he doesn't fall into
the above said category. As a director, he shows a lot
of promise, though his debut film is wildly uneven
when it comes to its tone and impact.
'Lucky Star' talks of Ranjith (Jayaram) and Janaki
(Rachna Narayanankutty), a tailor and his wife who
used to work as a junior artiste in films, who are
based in Chennai. The couple dreams of making it big
someday, and has plans of starting a garment store
soon. Meanwhile, Swapna (Pooja Ramachandran) and
her beau, a couple from the US of A, land on the
doorsteps of Dr. John Chittilappally (Mukesh), an
infertility specialist, seeking his services to find them a
surrogate mother who could bear their child.
An idea that best suits a short film of less than half an hour of
running time, gets puffed up into a gas balloon that takes almost a
couple of hours to deflate in 'David and Goliath'. Rajeev Nath's film
fails to rise above the middling script, as the exhausted viewer lets
out one yawn after the other.
David (Jayasurya) is an orphan, brought up by a priest (P Balachandran)
at a church somewhere on the outskirts of Vagamon. He grows up to be a
timid youngster, who has a fear of the crowds. Though a school dropout,
David displays an astounding expertise when it comes to creating
machines. He is discovered by Sunny (Anoop Menon), a local planter, who
reaps a fortune through one of David's remarkable discoveries.
The lethargy that encompasses the entire film is infectious, and it
stars working on you like a sedative. The geyser that is one of David's
initial discoveries takes a while to heat up the water, and when he
discovers yet another gadget that produces electricity, you hope for his
wheel of fortune to turn a bit faster.
I'd like to believe that David is an extraordinary person, but his
characterization borders on the mentally challenged. Sometimes you
wonder, if everything is indeed right with the chap, and if he needs
some real special care and treatment. His bleeding nose and his tremors
add to my skepticism.
No prizes for guessing that Sunny, who is on a desperate bid to prove a
few points to the world, is as self-centered as a man could get. The
writing again gets hazy when it comes to sketching down those precise
details, and he turns out to be no Goliath; he isn't even an apt
adversary to David, for that matter.
The morality tale that the film incorporates within itself is feebly
constructed, and the questions that it poses lack the potency to warrant
a discussion. The gut-punch is missing, and the anticipated tussle
between the two legendary characters immortalized by the Bible, is sadly
missing.
When it comes to the women, Jainamma (Lena), an alcoholic woman who has
given upon her faith, after her kids were run over by a lorry, leads the
pack. There is Deepa (Anumol) as well, who lights up the lamp every now
and then as her husband Sunny gropes around in the dark. Sharon
(Soumya) is more of an embellishment, rather than a woman character of
note.
Jayasurya is fantastic as David, and is especially good in the climactic
scene, when he puts down his catapult at the press conference and
resignedly surrenders before Goliath. Anoop Menon contentedly takes the
back seat, this time around.
Team spirit could well work wonders in cinema, but when you get to see
the very same team repeatedly, film after film, it starts getting to you
especially since cinema is a visual medium. Anoop Menon and Jayasurya,
along with P Balachandran and Dhananjay do make a perfect family
picture, but probably it's time to think of a change in cast.
'David and Goliath' is a film that is built on an appealing premise, but
which follows it for so long that the story telling ends up robotic.
Its inability to elicit genuine emotions in the viewers is hence, an
offshoot of this grave deficit.
Left Right Left movie is not a story narrated with beginning, middle,
and end. It simply sketches certain incidents in the life of selected
characters who represent our society.Movie directed by Arun Kumar
Aranvind and written by Murali Gopi. Their previous movie, Ee Adutha
Kalathu is concidered as pathbreaker.Indrajith, Murali Gopi, Lena, and
Remya Nambeeshan doing the lead roles. The titles signifies the rythem
of once walk. The theme of the film is on the influence of childhood
experiences on moulding the character and midset of a person.
Honey Bee is a 2013 Malayalam chase film written and directed by Lal Jr, son of actor-director Lal. Jean Paul Lal will make his debut as a director with Honey Bee starring Asif Ali, Bhavana, Baburaj, Sreenath Bhasi, Archana Kavi, Balu and Lal.[1]Deepak Dev
tuned music for the lines of Santhosh Varma. Siby Thottupuram and Joby
Mundamattom produced the movie under the banner of SJM Entertainment.
Sebastian, Abu, Ambrose Perera, Fernandez Disilva, Angel, and Sara
are members of a music band based in Fort Kochi. They share a very deep
friendship among them. Sara is the lover of Fernandez Disilva.Angel's
brothers H C Michael, Martin, Father Cochin, and Antony are nicknamed
Punyalanmar by others. Angel is in love with Sebastian. Meanwhile there
is a marriage proposal for Angel with SI George. The events that unfold
as a result of this proposal weave the plot of the story.
ACP Antony Mosses finds the killer of his friend ACP Aryan Jacob and
just before revealing it, he meets with an accident, causing him to
forget everything. Days later, he is forced to investigate the murder
once again.
The movie opens with ACP Antony Moses aka Rascal Moses (Prithviraj)
getting into an accident which causes him, a partial memory loss.
Before the accident , he had solved the murder case of his friend,
Assistant Commissioner Aaryan John Jacob (Jayasurya),
who was killed during a gallantry awards ceremony at police/parade
grounds possibly by a Long range rifle. Antony gets into the accident
while talking to his senior officer and brother-in-law Farhan Ashraf (Rahman),Commissioner of police. He tells him that the case is solved. But, before giving the name of the murderer, accident occurs.
This movie is about A cab driver called Bob (Vincent D'Onofrio)
who picks up women and takes them to his house where he kills them. But
on this one day he picks up a woman and her 9 year old son Tim. Bob
then makes Tim live in the house with him all while he keeps killing
women. Tim grows up there, watching, seeing all that happens. Bob wants
to make him his protégé. Will Tim carry on the legacy?
The senior partner of an investment brokerage Jeffrey has a breakdown
and kills his two associates and his wife. Then he takes his three-year
old daughter Victoria and the one-year old daughter Lilly and drives his
car through a winding snowing road. He has a car accident and fall off a
cliff, but he brings his daughters to an abandoned and isolated cabin
to kill them, but the children are saved by a creepy ghostly creature.
Five years later, Jeffrey's brother Lucas finds the children that were
raised without social relationship and claim that they have been raised
by Mama. Lucas disputes the custody with the children's grandmother but
Dr. Dreyfuss, who is studying the girls, selects Lucas to take care of
the children. Lucas lives with his girlfriend Annabel, who plays in a
rock'n'roll band, and Victoria and Lilly moves to their house. Soon
Lucas and Annabel find that the girls were not delusional and they are
not alone in the house.
Mama
is a 2013 Spanish-Canadian horror film co-written and directed by Andrés
Muschietti and starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
