Celluloid - Exclusive Malayalam Movie Review

Directed by Kamal

Produced by Kamal, Ubaid

Written by Vinu Abraham

Music by M. Jayachandran

Cinematography Venu

Studio Prime Time Cinema

Release date(s) 15 February 2013

Country India

Language Malayalam

'Celluloid' is the biopic on Jivanayakam Cyril Daniel Nadar (1893 - 1975) aka J.C.Daniel the Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer & hero of Malayalam's first film ever 'Vigathakumaran'. It also discusses the troubles women had to face during that time, especially those from the lower caste, through P.K.Rossie, Mollywood's first heroine. The film based on the book written by Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan who did extensice research on Daniel, fought even with Kerala Govt. who at that time refused to acknowledge or honour Daniel.

Prithviraj - J.C. Daniel

Mamta Mohandas - Jenet

Sreenivasan - Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan

Chandini - P.K.Rosie

First thing first, Celluloid is a fitting tribute to the 'Father of Malayalam Cinema' from master craftsmen Kamal.

Kamal is a director known for making both commercial entertainers and serious real life subjects. Celluloid belongs to the second category and once again he hasing colors. Celluloid is a 'GEM' of a movie that no lover of Malayalam Cinema or just Cinema itself, shouldn't miss. Biopics are rare in Indian cinemas, well this one gives courage to all the makers out there to try out the genre. 

Prithviraj has given his career best perfomance in Celluloid. Won't be a surprise if he wins both State & National awards for his brilliant portrayal of J C Daniel [He also appears as Harris Daniel, JCDaniels youngest son] 

New comer Chandini is outstanding as PK Rosie

Mamta, Sreejith Ravi and all the other supporting cast has done superb job.

The 2 Songs in the film are already a super hit.

Kudos to the cameraman, Music Director, Cinematographer, Art Director, Editor and the entire crew for making a wonderful movie

This one doesn't belong to the typical art house movies, its short, sweet and entertaining. 

I don't think anybody who loeves Malayalam cinema can leave the movie house without a  shed of tear in their eyes.
 Special care ahs been taken by the makers to get the feel of 30's and 60-70's .


Celluloid is a Brilliant, must watch for all Malayalam Cinema lovers -  4/5

'Three' - My 'KOlaveri' Movie Review - Why I Fell in Love With It

Theatre: Perinthalmanna - Preethi Chithralaya 

Status : 80% [First Show]

For me the kolaveri had literally died down , plus the sudden unpublicized release of movie made me not much interested in watching the film FDFS like i usally do for good, hyped movies. But ever since the reviews started coming in eventhough mixed i wanted to watch the movie, and at the end of it all i think it was a good decision

'3' refers to the the three stages in the lives of Ram [Dhanush] and Janani [Shruthi Hassan] - School, College & Post marriage]

The Movie begins itself with a complete shocker, Ram in a casket ! Bang on target with the very first visual.

Then comes the light hear-ted breezy romantic tale of Ram & Janani, the part every one unanimously liked in the movie. Most of those scenes were screamer, performed exceedingly well by Dhanush and Shruthi and not to forget Ram's side kick  Kumaran [Sivakarthikeyan]. The second stage deals with the two getting married and starting to get a life. The 3rd part coming in the second half deals with life after marriage and the turn of events which leads to Dhanush Committing suicide.

Positives

 

1. Direction - Excellent Debut, know what she was making, did'nt try to infuse the usual masala ingredients, also didn't try to spoon feed the audience [which is what i liked the most]

2. Perfomances of Dhanush [who proves that the national award wasn't a fluke or a one time wonder] & Shruthi Hassan [impoved a lot, excelled in most of the scenes except 'emotional outbursts]

3. Music - 'Kolaveri' took away all the lime light from the album which comprises of few of the best tracks of 2011-12

4. BG - Excellent

5. Camera & Editing

6. The 2nd half was very well written and convincing

7.The social message it conveys

8. The way they used the success of 'Kolaveri' song for Brand placements & Promotions without providing a hindrance to the viewers.

 

Negatives

1. Few scenes in which diff characters emotionally bursts out where over performed i guess, esp shruthi hassan who failed miserably in such scenes, its high time she learned the act of underplaying such scenes from her DAD who is a master in that

2. Similarities with 'Mayakkam Ena' [the story, senthil character and even the horrible way the heroines perform during emotional scenes]

All in all a wonderful film, a film one should never miss watching in theaters, preferably watch it alone or with your better half.

Its Emotional, its heart breaking, its ligh hearted, it conveys a message - What more do u want !!!

Rating: 7.5/10

Verdict: Just Go and watch it

Box Office: Should be a Super Hit

Ps. Please forgive all the typos and grammatical errors ....Thank you very much for Reading