ManjadiKuru

Manjadikuru is a 'Malayalam' movie in all aspects. The movie portrays the real village parts and the life of people there perfectly. Hats off to Anjali Menon, the Writer-Director

About The Story:

       A 10 year old boy Vikki is coming back to his hometown from Dubai along with his parents to participate in the funeral ceremony of his Grand Father. There are a lot of people in the home including his  uncles, aunties and heir children. Vikki got 3 friends there. His cousins Kannan, his sister and the servant girl Roja. The movie tells the story of that house and the people there in the view of Vikki.

About The Movie:

      We can't just say this is movie is good. Its amazingly beautiful. The movie gave us a nostalgic feelings of the memories of our childhood and the villages which we can't see anywhere nowadays. Sure, this is after a long gap, a film like this, is releasing in Malayalam.

       The film shows us the Talent of Anjali Menon. The way they narrated the movie was simply superb. Hats off to her for showing perfect control, which is easy to loss in any stage of the story like this. Excellent Anjali and thanks for this beautiful movie.


Performances:

      Another main thing to be noted is the casting of this movie. Perfect casting for each and every character.      The four children who played the characters Vikki,Kannan,Kannan's sister and Roja were simply superb. They were capable enough to make all the viewers to be a part of their innocence, happiness, sadness etc.
Felt sad while saw Murali again on screen. For Jagathy too. Hope he will be ok soon and will be back to the field. Great performance by both. No one can replace these actors.
Another main one to be considered is Urvasi. The character as a Gulf lady was nice and perfect. All other actors Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Rahman, Praveena etc also did their job well.
    Special Mention for Prithviraj(Vikki senior) and Padmapriya(Roja senior) whose screen presence were for just last 4-5 minutes.

Songs were good to hear. But felt as misplaced.

Rating:4.75/5

Arike-So Close To Life

'Arike', as the name indicates,is so close to life. A story written from the surroundings. After the movie Mayamohni,this is really a different character from Dileep. But the main credit for this film goes to the wrier-Director SyamaPrasad. He did a gret job, both as a writer and director. Hats off sir.


About the Story: Shanthunu(Dileep) is a simple and decent gentleman. Kalpana(Samvrita) is his lover. They love each other madly. Anuradha(Mamta) is Kalpana's best friend. For Anuradha, Kalpana and Shanthunu are the last lovers of the world. She thinks the world lost the mind to love. She saw only a sexual interest in all the eyes watching her. And she is suffering by her some experience in past. Arike is the story of these three. It shows what happened to each nd where their life reaches as the time runs.
About The Movie:
As I told above, we can see the talent of Syamaprasad in this movie. Well written and nicely executed dialogues and scenes. he movie flows very naturally without ani signs of artificiality. Each and every dialogues is from the ones we hard around us and the ones we told somewhere in our own life. That makes Arike beautiful.
Performance:
Dileep did justie to his role as Shanthunu. Good performance by him. Samvrita also was good as usual. But Mamta was excellent as Anuradha. Great performance from her. The character I liked most is, the character Guruji (Madambu Kunjukutan). His screen presence is just for 5 or 6 minutes. But each and every dialogue he delivered was perfect.Again a special mention to Syamaprasad for the dialogues. Rest all actors did well except Chitra Iyer. That role can be given to someone else.
Songs were not so great.But surely good to hear.
Rating:3/5