A film full of awesome ideas and great intentions. But so poorly executed. And mostly poorly cast except for Lalettan.
LJP's static camera "trick" does not work here. Often the camera is placed at such a long distance from the actors. During a song sequence in which Sonalee Kulkarni dances her heart out, the camera is just static like a bored lover. The audience performance during the song was also uninspired.
Then there is the usual LJP rubbish (like in Amen) where large crowds of people are simple acting like they are cheering for god knows what.
Danish Sait was an interesting casting choice. His dialog delivery was decent. But he lacked the frame to really make an impact. Sait had no screen presence whatsoever man. He looked menacing on occasions.
The second half was quite ridiculous. Who were those foreign husband-wife duo? Such poor character development. And the two actors sucked too. They made no impact whatsoever.
Action scenes were poorly choreographed and edited. You just wished they would end. The action scenes inside the fort were a joke. Even the actors looked like they did not know what to do on some occasions.
Lalettan acted really well. He performed well in the action scenes too. He looked grand like a man of experience.
The script by Razzaq had some powerful lines. But it is the ordinary scenes - like the camaraderie between the trio (Laltettan, Manoj and Harish) where the writing does not work at all. The attempts at humor are quite pathetic. The background score is pretty good. One melancholic tune reminded me of the tune by Morricone for the Morton character in Once Upon a Time in the West.
One reviewer on Youtube said that the whole film looked like it had been shot on some random ground or something. He is right. Sure there are many pretty frames. But LJP and Madhu Neelakandan fails to give us a real sense of place. Many of the sets looked like ..... well sets.
Sonalee Kulkarni looked really nice and acted well too. But there was something wrong with her make up.
LJP's static camera "trick" does not work here. Often the camera is placed at such a long distance from the actors. During a song sequence in which Sonalee Kulkarni dances her heart out, the camera is just static like a bored lover. The audience performance during the song was also uninspired.
Then there is the usual LJP rubbish (like in Amen) where large crowds of people are simple acting like they are cheering for god knows what.
Danish Sait was an interesting casting choice. His dialog delivery was decent. But he lacked the frame to really make an impact. Sait had no screen presence whatsoever man. He looked menacing on occasions.
The second half was quite ridiculous. Who were those foreign husband-wife duo? Such poor character development. And the two actors sucked too. They made no impact whatsoever.
Action scenes were poorly choreographed and edited. You just wished they would end. The action scenes inside the fort were a joke. Even the actors looked like they did not know what to do on some occasions.
Lalettan acted really well. He performed well in the action scenes too. He looked grand like a man of experience.
The script by Razzaq had some powerful lines. But it is the ordinary scenes - like the camaraderie between the trio (Laltettan, Manoj and Harish) where the writing does not work at all. The attempts at humor are quite pathetic. The background score is pretty good. One melancholic tune reminded me of the tune by Morricone for the Morton character in Once Upon a Time in the West.
One reviewer on Youtube said that the whole film looked like it had been shot on some random ground or something. He is right. Sure there are many pretty frames. But LJP and Madhu Neelakandan fails to give us a real sense of place. Many of the sets looked like ..... well sets.
Sonalee Kulkarni looked really nice and acted well too. But there was something wrong with her make up.