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Varshangalkku Shesham (2024)
Saving grace by Second half.. and Basil Joseph
Honestly the first half of this movie made me question what is going on. Super boring. And sad to say this, mediocre acting by Pranav Mohanlal. I know it's a huge weight to come on screen being Mohalal's son. But if the roles Lalettan can do, that Mammootty could never pull off, it's the classical song acting; and drunken comical kind of acting. Both of this was required in the first half by Pranav. And he failed sadly. Dhyan Sreenivasan was decent throughout. Pranav was better in the second half, but he still has miles to go in acting prowess. The scenes where he is playing violin is so bad, wish he did some practice and homework before doing such a role, like Lalettan would've done to do justice to the role. The second half of the movie especially when Basil Joseph comes is hilarious. He is in fact one consistent high performer in the movie. And Nibin Pauli was hilarious. The scene that made me fall to the floor laughing was when Neeraj Madhav coming as a producer noticed who the director and music director of his movie is, how he goes on about how old they are and maybe they need a health checkup and if the churidhar wearing person was gonna make the songs. Essentially story is of two extremely talented youths, who in the first half show no ambition and is drinking and goofing around while showing they are talented; and then they go to Madras with strong ambitions. And one guy succeeds, while the other for no reason gives his beautiful composition to a struggling music director, who becomes a big hit (that part made no sense whatsoever). This second friend then becomes drunken and goes downhill completely. The first guy who becomes successful realizes the music was his after all. By then it was too late. Then these two friends meet in old age and put their talents together. And of course it's a hit. Pranav Mohanlal, if he really wants to act in movies, should put in more of an effort. In fact I can't think of which young actor can pull off this tough role that Lalettan used to do flawlessly when he was young. Everyone else was good.
Nobody (2021)
Breaking Hutch!
The main reason for this movie released in 2021 and directed by Ilya Naishuller was Bob Odenkirk, his performance in Breakind Bad was so good! He was fantastic in this one as well. He is shown initially as this docile, shy family man having a mundane life. One day two petty crooks break into his house, he tackles them, his son also wakes up and had one in a strong hold. He then tells his son to just leave them. His son seemed grossly unimpressed and ashamed of his dad. But this event triggers something dormant that he was trying to hide. His daughter's kitty bracelet went missing that day and he just decides to go chase the two people. In the tattoo place they show that he had some tattoo on himself that terrorizes one of the guys there and they lock all doors and hide. I do wish they had explained what the tattoo on his hand meant later, but they don't! Anyway he finds the thieves, they are two poor Hispanic ppl with a small baby, so obviously his frustration is not resolved. Thankfully for him on the way back in bus, a bunch of Russian guys were about to rape a girl, and he takes out all his anger at them. One of the Russian guys happened to be the brother of a Russian mafia, and this triggers a whole event of war with the Russians behind him. And himself, and his dad (who was in a nursing home also hating the mundane life) and another African American guy (who is a friend seen as calling frequently with warnings) just goes into gunshot mode with them. Hutch's (Bob the actor) true identity seems to be that he was an FBI agent very much feared, who during an operation decided to become better and have a family. There is a scene where the Russians are searching for him in FBI database and he is in the highly classified danger category.
Good movie, one time thrill watch.