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Jan 26, 2014

Salala Mobiles Review by Chandra Mohan

REVIEW :

Salaala Mobiles, the latest Dulqer Salman flick tried to present a wafer thin love story in a complicated way and in the end the result is not that sweet. A romantic comedy scripted and directed by Sharath A Haridaasan, the movie tells the story of Afsal and his love for Shahana.

The saving grace or the highlight for the movie are some fun filled moments for laughter and also songs tuned by Gopi Sundar. The first half was average and lacked pace to steam up things. Half way through we hope something is going to happen or we hope for a better scheme of things to happen but nothing happen to make things exciting for the viewers.

The story is set in Kozhikode where Afsal, a simple and fun loving youth runs a mobile shop named Salaala Mobiles. Shahana is a regular visitor to the shop who comes there to top up her mobile. The plot focus on Afsal's effort to woe his dream girl.

The director on the making side has tried his best to make each frame looked colourful and visually appealing but with a half baked script and story, the romantic angle does not work out in the film's favor.

On the acting side, Dulquer as Afsal was ok but he looked tired and the spark we saw in his earlier films like Usthaad Hotel and ABCD was missing. Nazriya portraying the character of Shahana looked good. Performance wise, she has bettered from her previous works.

Jacob Gregory as Binoy ( Afsal's friend) handled the comedy side well with his one liners and his combination scenes with Dulquer was good to watch. Tamil actor Santhanam appeared as Alakarswamy a techie freak. A brief role for him without much to perform. To be honest, he did his best to irritate the viewers.

Quite a lot of supporting casts form part of the film and among them, Geetha, Tiny Tom, Siddhique and Anwar (Role of Manaf) are the ones who impressed. Kunjan reprised his role from the movie Aye Auto and it was entertaining.

The main highlight of the film are songs and background score by Gopi Sundar. There are four songs, a soft melody, a quawwali song, a rap song and another song that appear towards the fag end of the film. All are good and complimented well by excellent picturing.

Satheeesh Kurup's camera works and Xian's editing were on the positive side.

On the whole, the film is a disappointing product and for some of you it might end up as an average time pass film. I am going with a generous 2.25 / 5

AUTHOR DETAILS :

Chandra Mohan

I watch almost all movies released. So it will be a busy Friday for me every week. I would like to write reviews in a small way and you can connect with me through my page The Cinema Company @ https://www.facebook.com/theci nemacompany2

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