100 Days of Love Malayalam Movie Review

100 Days of Love directed by veteran director Kamal's son Jenuse Mohamed is a feel good romantic comedy mainly targeted at the youth audiences and more towards the urban youth. About the film, it is strictly average for me that runs at a leisurely pace. Though the title says 100 days of love and the songs along with the trailer promised a full length love story, the film has little romance to show on screen as major part of the running duration is focused on the search of the male protagonist for his lady love who he just saw but was beyond his reach after their first meeting or rather the first passing that happened in a night in the rain.

Set in Bangalore where BKN (shortened name of Balan K Nair) and Ummer who are thick friends living together. Balan who is a journalist and is recently dumbed by his girlfriend meet Sheela and cupid strike the very moment. The movie focus on the search of Balan and Ummer for Sheela and once they are able to tracks her, fate has something else in store for them. Whether Balan can walk away holding hands of Sheela just like any other cliched love story we have seen or is there a twist in the tale for the couples. Well you will have to watch it for yourself to know that.

As i said, it is the slowness of the film that drags things and gives a boring feel especially the major portion of the first half. The search for the girl modelled on video games with different levels and lifelines seemed an unconvincing and silly one. At the same time, the punch during the interval was well shown and it had something in store for the audience to cheer up.

Things begin well post intermission but overall slow nature of the movie literally drags the movie. Occasional moments are there that will excite you but that won't be enough to put things in the right place and makes the romance on screen look bright and sweet.

Being a debutant, Jenuse has showed the promise to come back better. Screenplay had its lagness and also the dialogues were artificial at times. The positive factor for me was the on screen chemistry of Dulquer and Nithya. Dulquer playing the character of Balan K Nair was doing a repeat of similar roles he has done before but it was good. Nithya looked beautiful and at the same time as the girl brought up from outside Kerala, she did justice to that character both in emoting as well as dialogue delivery. Shekhar Menon as Ummer and Rahul Madhav are also part of the cast and they were not bad either. Aju Varghese appeared in a cameo as BKN's friend and colleague. Vineeth and Praveena are part of the supporting casts but it was hard to imagine Vineeth as Nithya's father.

Technically cinematography was nice along with not so bad edits. Music is by Govind Menon and the songs with their visuals looked nice on screen. Overall, 100 Days of Love is an average rom-com for me and the rating for this Jenuse Mohamed film is two and a half out of five.

Rating - 2.5 / 5