Cast : Nivin Pauly,
Nazriya Nazim, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Aju Varghese
Director : Jude Anhthany
Joseph
Music
Director : Shaan Rehman
Date
of Release : 07 February 2014
My
Thoughts
Pooja (Nazriya Nazim) is a teenage girl who is good at both
studies and sports. She is naughty and tomboyish. She, being the single child
of her parents, is showered with loads of parental love. Her parents get her
everything she wants; including a CBZ bike! When she finds out that her
gorgeous cousin sister is married to a bald chap, she realizes that a girl’s
life ends with marriage regardless of how intelligent or good-looking she is!
That is when she vows to herself that she will find the love of her life
herself.
Will she find her perfect match? Will she make the dreams of her
parents come true? Will she make them proud? Will her fate help her in an
arranged marriage? These questions are answered in a funny and humorous way
through this splendid movie directed by Jude Anthany Joseph.
The movie is from the point of view of Pooja. She is the hero of
the film. She chases the man. She takes the initiative and proposes the man of
her choice. She studies and works hard to meet her acadenmic and professional
targets. And she evolves from carefree sixteen years old teenage girl to a
matured doctor!
And it is this idea which makes this refreshing and enables it to
stand out in the crowd. It is not male-dominated and the female is not
portrayed as a whining and crying only-beauty-no-brains-creature.
The movie is untouched by clichés and the screenplay flows like a
stream of water. The dialogs are realistic and most of the times evokes
laughter.
The relationship between father-daughter and mother-son is
wonderfully captured. So is the friendship between girl-girl, boy-boy and
boy-girl.
The movie begins somewhere around 1999 and spans upto the current
time. The director has given attention to minute details of these times. The
salwar-kameez Pooka wears as a teenager is designed to suit that time. There
are little instances to tickle the memories of those times like the
Dhoordharshan which still continued to entertain the families, the stupendous
hit of Kaho Na Pyaar hai and the
emergence of Hrithik Roshan, the baby steps taken by Internet and those Internet
Café which started coming up… That first Nokia phone, long-forgotten Hutch
network and the dream of every teenager – Nokia 6600! I can go on and on! It is
this aspect that attracts the attention of today’s audience whose age varies from
25 to 32. I bet that they will relate to these nuances more than anybody else!
Further, the editing is so crisp that there will not be a boring
moment in the film!
All said, it is Nazriya who steals the show. The innocence,
dilemma, naughtiness and the shyness that first-love gives and the evolution of
the character is well enacted by her. She looks cute and refuses to go away
from our thoughts. And I appreciate Nivin Pauly for delivering subtle
performance. Oh! One smile is enough and that’s it… Nobody can stop oneself
from falling in love at fisrt sight. He lives as the characters and supports Nazriya
throughout.
In short, the movie is a delight – A movie that can be watched
with anyone (Even alone).
Way to go Malayalam cinema…
You again demonstrated why you are best!!!!
Rating
4.5/5
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