MAYANADHI..!

AS SIMPLE AS IT IS!

Prologue

When was the last time the storyline, lead characters of a movie has been stuck in your mind, still after you leave the theatres or 2 days after that? Well “Mayanadhi” can be categorized as that kind of a movie which haunts your mind even without any usual stereotypes which the so called new generation movies holds.

I always believed in the talent of Aashiq Abu as a director and what he is capable to produce, if he is molded in a right way. Even in his illogical flops like gangster, idukki gold, rani padmini, a critic can take back something which in some way proves that there is some kind of uniqueness as a filmmaker in him, even though the above mentioned films are very hard to digest for a normal viewer. Here he delivers something which can be termed as his career best one and prior to this Salt n pepper, 22fk, where considered as so.

Experience

Here I would like to introduce a term called “Unpredictability of the predictable”, and I personally feel that this is the term where the whole movie is confined around. Director of the movie thoroughly goes with the notion that they absolutely tend to avoid the unpredictable factor in the movie, yet you as a viewer look for something unpredictable. As you can see the dialogues are cut throat straight through-and there is no way you can see any hint of dramatics anywhere (Special thanks to Shyam Pushkaran). Even in the case of cinematography, the frames are not catchable, but still they hold something that sticks to the movie.

 Focusing on my above notion (“Unpredictability of the predictable”), I can notice that the kissing, sex scenes which is showcased in the movie has taken every viewer to a surprised/amused mindset, but I definitely feel that those scenes were a necessity in the movie in order to be in the flow. Tovino delivering one of his career best performances, and Aishwarya simply stands apart. I was in a really confused mindset after the movie-Why she was so much underutilized in her debut movie (Njandukalude Nattil Oru Idevela)? That was one of the amazingly raw performance by a lead heroine in recent times.

BOTTOM LINE

I once read an article in a newspaper by a serious film critic and it goes like this,

“You know what these so called “new-gen-feel-good” movies lacking? It is the absence of a solid straight through climax. They have a good story line, they indeed start well, they will definitely have those feel good scenes here and there, but when it comes to the climax they tend to add some “unpredictability” element to the movie which will make their so called expected viewers to raise their satisfaction bar to another level –and at last there is no climax at all! I recommend all these film makers to watch some old Malayalam movies and get some inspiration from them”

I must confess that I strictly second to those opinions which are mentioned above, but here climax is the real show stealer. As I said in the beginning, this one is “AS SIMPLE AS IT IS“, you will be in the flow till the end just like a Magical River (Mayanadhi).