The latest Aashiq Abu offering is a pretty good film. Sort of a noble failure. A thriller that's also about life in the Malayalam film industry. There are lots of good moments (like the part where the director says "let the malayalm film industry get destroyed" when a Muslim actress makes him chop off a sexy scene in the film fearing backlash from her conservative brother) but there are too many ordinary moments as well.
The makers tried to make the film too subtle. Some of the acting by the two leads was crap. Aishwarya Lakshmi, the female lead, has an interesting dour screen presence. But her acting in some scenes should have been chopped off on the editing room table. Tovino Thomas didn't nail the character either, he phoned it in. The actors who played the three encounter cops could walk into an Anurag Kashyap movie.
I recommend it.
The makers tried to make the film too subtle. Some of the acting by the two leads was crap. Aishwarya Lakshmi, the female lead, has an interesting dour screen presence. But her acting in some scenes should have been chopped off on the editing room table. Tovino Thomas didn't nail the character either, he phoned it in. The actors who played the three encounter cops could walk into an Anurag Kashyap movie.
I recommend it.