Chanthupottu (2005) : A Controversy

                            Chanthupottu is a Malayalam movie directed by Lal Jose and released in 2005 . It tells the story of Radhakrishn...

Feb 8, 2015

AADU Malayalam Movie Review

Production group Friday Film House these days are behind creatures and animals. That's what the title of their last three films give an indication. MONKEY pen was followed by PERUCHAZHI (Rat) and now we have AADU or a GOAT occupying a pivotal place in the title of their latest movie in tinsel town. With a curious and catchy title Aadu Oru Bheegara Jeevi Aanu grabs your attention with the very first look. Whether the film grab your attention and makes a happy viewing is the next big question. The answer is a BIG NO. Tried its best to be a film with lots of fun where comedy plays a very important part but the reality is that the movie falls flat.

Set in Idukki high range where Shaji Pappan is the manager of a local tug-of-war team Winners Pothumukku. When the team wins, they get a she-goat Pinkie as a bonus prize from the tournament and Pinkie the goat is sharing screen space with none other than our hero Jayasurya in the movie. But from here nothing happens and with scenes that have no connection with the overall plot acts as a big spoiler putting everything out of place.

People these days say anyone can make a film when you have a cash rich producer by your side. But in reality it is not that true. The thing is Aadu Oru Beegara Jeevi and movies like these are prime examples justifying the belief of some that movie making has become easy now. No storyline and no script is the case here. Director Mithun Manuel Thomas is a newcomer. Accepting that fact but how he went ahead with this script puts a big question mark. Read that this movie was initially planned as a short film and later they decided to make it into a full fledged film. It seems things went wrong from here as the content that can be told in twenty minutes is stretched and written too badly forcing people to go in a sleeping mode or leave the cinema halls midway through in a disappointing fashion.

Jayasurya is a reliable actor these days and sad to see him in this film with nothing to do. Either he did not read the script or after hearing a one liner of the film he went ahead to do it getting it wrong. Anyways his looks and introduction scene was a cool one. Saiju Kurup, Dharmajan, Vinayakan, Chemban Vinod, Indrans, Vijay Babu , Renji Panicker are all there in the film but what can they do in a poorly written work. Sandra Thomas appear in a character that was totally irritating. Aju Varghese, Srindha Ashab and Swathi Reddy have cameo roles.

Disappointing is too less a word to describe this film that fails on all counts testing the patience at the highest level. Don't deserve a rating too but cannot ignore the efforts of the technicians behind a film and hence I go with a very generous one mark out of five for Aadu Oru Beegara Jeeviyanu.

Rating 1 / 5

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