Raavan

My Rating : 1/5

Raavan was a movie that was anxiously awaited by the movie lovers in India. A movie by Maniratnam, Vikram playing the hero in tamil version and the villain in the hindi version, needless to say that A R Rahman has given tunes to the songs. The odds were in favour of Raavan but it turned out to be a big disappointment.
Except for the mind-blowing picturisation by Santhosh Sivan, the wonderful sets by Sabu Cyril there was nothing much to enjoy in the film.
Nevertheless, I liked certain philosophical aspects of Raavan. The question that Sita asks Ram "Did you come in search of me or you came to defeat Raavan?", it was something that has to be given a thought.
This time round, even A R couldn't give nice songs. The movie was a total disappointment

Ividam Swargam Aanu

My Rating : 1/5

Roshan Andrews was planning 'Casanova' with mohanlal. Due to some problems, the project didn't take off. So they decided to make use of those dates to make a pure commercial 'formula' movie. The movie was titled "Ividam Swargam aanu"

I think the cast was decided by choosing all possible combination of actors which has worked well wiht lal in earlier movies. Like thilakan, kaviyoor ponnamma & Lal, Sreenivasan & Lal, Jagathy & Lal, Shankar & Lal.
James Albert who has written Classmates & Cycle has written the script. (In fact there is no need of a scriptwriter to make movies like this)
Mohan lal runs a 'hypothetical' farm house where he carries out 'textbook' farming (It seems the scriptwriter has watched too many episodes of krishidarsan). There are windmills(that never rotate) to generate electricity for the farm. There are three heroines (Typically mohanlal). There is jagathy, there is shankar, there is sreenivasan. Apart from these, there is nothing.
A villain (Lallu alex) who tries to grab the farm house of the hero for his real estate interests. The fight of the hero against the villain and finally the hero wins the farm house and a consolation price in the form of one of the heroines. Age old cliche.
The only plus point in this movie is Jagathy's performance.
This movie is turning out to be a hit. But it's not surprising as till date all Vinayan movies were boxoffice grossers. Malayalees should be commended for their wonderful taste of movies.