Christian Brothers

Much-hyped and much-expected Malayalam movie Christian Brothers has released this weekend. The film has everything like family sentiments, fights, music, dance and twists and turns. But there is no much gist in the story selected by director Joshiy. The screenplay has been made as to attract the fans of superstars like Mohanlal, Dileep, Suresh Gopi and Sharath Kumar.

Christian Brothers is a mass entertainer movie with all the commercial elements. Mohanlal, Dileep, Suresh Gopi's acting is the main attraction of the film. Deepak Dev's music, Anil Nair's cinematography and fights sequences are the other highlights of the film. But all these entertainment elements are made in such a way that fans of each actor should be impressed. There is more of artificiality than natural flow.

The duration of the film is 2.55 hours because it is multi-starrer film and each lead actor has been given equal focus in it. In fact, it is not easy to handle the subject of multi-starrer flick. But script writers Sibi K Thomas and Udayakrishna have done it very well. They have maintained equal focus to all the lead characters, which help the film to hold the attention of audience. The movie is all about a retired army officer and his two sons. It also throws light on issue like land grabbing.

Palamattathu Varghese Mappila (Saikumar) is a retired and well-to-do army officer, His sons Christy (Mohanlal) works as an informer in Mumbai and Joby (Dileep) is sent abroad to study theology. Situations make them fall out of their respective responsibilities, which irk their father and make him loose interest in them. What happens next will form the interesting part of the film.

Mohanlal has larger scope in the film when compared to other lead stars. The comic scenes between Suresh Gopi are Dileep are really good. Sharath Kumar has just guest appearance role. Leading ladies Kavya Madhavan, Kaniha and Lakshmi Rai do not have much scope in the film.Saikumar, Biju Menon, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Vijaya Raghavan, Suresh Krishna, Salim Kumar and others have done justice to their respective roles.

Deepak Dev has composed music for four songs like 'Karthaave...', 'Kannum...', 'Mizhikalil Naanam...' and 'Sayyaave...' and all of them are melodious and good to listen. Anil Nair's camera work, Ranjan Ebraham's editing are also commendable. In a nutshell, Christian Brothers is a good entertainer for this weekend masti

Producer: AV Anoop and Maha Subair

Director: Joshiy

Cast: Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Sarath Kumar, Kavya Madhavan, Lakshmi Rai, Kanika, Saikumar, Biju Menon, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Vijaya Raghavan, Suresh Krishna, Salim Kumar, Suraaj Venjaramoodu, Jagathy Sreekumar and Kavya Madhavan

Music: Deepak

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Watch Online Malyalam Movie August 15 (2011)

Director: Shaji Kailas
Producer: M. Mani
Writer: S. N. Swami
Cast: Mammootty,Nedumudi Venu,Siddique,Sai Kumar,Lalu Alex,Meghana Raj,Shwetha Menon
Music: Rajamani
Cinematographer: Pradeep Nair
Editor: Boominathan
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‘August 15’ has Mammootty playing Perumal once again. The Crime Branch officer who had embarked on a mission to save the Chief Minister in ‘August 1’, is once again on a similar mission. The State Chief Minister (played by Nedumudi Venu) is targeted by a professional killer (played by Siddique). Perumal is out to save the Chief Minister. How he does it forms the plot of ‘August 15’.
The plot is not bad. But scenarist S.N.Swamy and director Shaji Kailas should have shown more care towards developing the plot, in a comprehensive manner. It should be remembered that ‘August 1’ still has its appeal not just because of the character of Perumal. Of course Perumal was simply dashing. But the film owes its success and popularity to the presence of Sukumaran and the way his character, that of the Chief Minister, was moulded. The professional killer, played by Captain Raju, too was a highlight of the movie. But in ‘August 15’, the chief minister doesn’t make that kind of an impact and the character of the professional killer too deserved more attention. The only supporting character that gets noted is Jagathy Sreekumar’s, but the character simply vanishes at some point. There seems to be lots of things lacking as regards ‘August 15’ and hence, for those who expected a slicker version of ‘August 1’ and for those who love Shaji Kailas films, ‘August 15’ is a disappointment. It’s just tolerable stuff, scenes being created in the most clichéd of manners and characterization aspect being neglected to a great degree.
Performances
Mammootty is smart as Perumal, but his performance seems to lack something. The fire that characterized the Perumal of ‘August 1’ is missing. Siddique as the unnamed professional killer is also good, but he could have been better, had the script been better. Jagathy Sreekumar, as long as he is there in the film, is good. The others are all good, but there’s no outstanding performance from anyone.
Technical aspects
The cinematography, editing and art-work of course suit the theme, but to be frank I had expected a higher level of technical brilliance and better frames, especially since the film is directed by Shaji Kailas. Editing could have been much better.
Music
Rajamani’s background score jells with the theme and the mood.
Script
S.N.Swamy has done an OK kind of work with the script. In fact the script could have been better, much much better. It’s the characterization aspect that seems to have been affected. The professional killer, played by Siddique, which should have been the highlight of the film, could have been worked out in a better way. Jagathy Sreekumar’s character and some other characters simply vanish once the film is on action mode.
Direction
Shaji Kailas is good as director, just about good. But the pace, the element of thrill and the slick editing and technical brilliance that characterize Shaji Kailas films seems to be missing. He could have done more justice to the subject.