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The Teacher, Malayalam movie Review.

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 'The teacher' is a revenge story of a school teacher who was sexually assaulted by her students. The film starts from few family sequences of Sujith and Devika(Amala paul). Sujith is a staff nurse in a hospital and Devika works as a teacher. As the couples didn't have a baby after four years of marriage, they were expecting it to happen very soon. The character of Devika is shown as disturbed, hiding something, from the starting itself and the film then reveals about an issue that happened few weeks ago when Devika was sexually assaulted by a group of boys in her school. After seeking help from her mother in law,Comrade Kalyani, Devika's revenge against those boys who offended her, is the gist of the film. Positives . The story is socially relevant and cinematically satisfying. Amala paul, Chemban vinod, Hakkim shah, Manju pillai and others have given brilliant performances, though the casts other than Amala paul and Hakkim shah have very less screen- time. End note wi

Four years, Malayalam movie review.

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' Four years' is apparently a marriage between 'Super saranya' and 'Arjun Reddy' in a 'Hrudhayam' format. It tells the story of two youngsters and their conversations in the last days of their college life, who were broken up about six months before. The story is very simple and usual. An academically bright girl falls in love with a talented boy, is a commonest plot for campus romance. 'Four years' also falls in that genre. The film starts with a photoshoot of the outgoing batch in which Vishal refuse to come even after Gayathri, his love interest makes her call. Just before they leave the campus Gayathri and Vishal meet mainly twice, once at night and then in the next morning. The film outstretches its narrative with the recollections of their college memories and keep on romanticising everything in the campus. As vishal have 31 backpapers, he is frustrated with its burden and ill focussed on his carrier goals. Gayathri advices him against his

Avatar, The way of water

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 Avatar, The way of water, is a visually rich family drama, power-packed with amazing action sequences, concepts, and bio-centrism. The story is simple, similar to the first part with the central theme of survival, and Nature worship. From Pandora, jake sully and Neytiri along with their children, including kiri (daughter of Grace Augustine ) travels to another place called as metkayina, to protect his family as the humans takes revenge on jake after he disrupts their supply chain. People of metkayina are swimmers and they evolved with adaptive aquatic features. Metkayina people have close relationship with a giant aquatic species called Tulkuns. Tulkuns are very intelligent and emotional, from their body, humans extract Amrita, that can be used as an elixir for longevity. Quaritch who got killed by Neytiri in the part 1,came back as a Nàvi thats developed from his DNA with memory implants. He takes revenge on jake and his family at Metkayina, by trying to destroy the coral ecosystem.

Saudhi vellakka,(സൗദി വെള്ളക്ക ) Review

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Pendency of cases in indian courts is very serious issue that's  less addressed in films. Sometimes, this issue showed on screen as a passing comedy, or just a part of some argument. Saudhi vellakka marks its difference by treating this hard reality very specifically. Aisha Rawuttar (Devi varma) gets arrested for attacking a minor and charged under non bailable sections of IPC, by the police. Her case keep on pending for the next 15 years due to so many reasons, even the witnesses and the victim hardly recollect what exactly happened. The case was intentionally ignited by a neighbour who has enmity with Aisha after a land dispute. The changes happening to people during this long period of 15 years, and Aisha watching all these, swimming with the flow, expecting a final destination of Justice at her old age, is the story all about. Meanwhile, her emotionally fragile son goes missing, daughter in law leaves home, and loneliness makes her irresponsive to the life. But this is not a le

Kooman (കൂമൻ ) Review

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  Kooman, is a mystery - thriller that have two different sequential trajectory that shooted as two halves of the film. First part mainly tries to establish the investigating skill of the Police officer Giri(Asif ali) and also details his vengefulness toward others if someone challenges his Ego. The second half exposes the crime and core of the film through a bottleneck effect of Giri's character that traps him down to the consequences of his ego. The story then connects the dots from the past and present, to frame the climax with some brainy moves, bravery, twists, mystery, with some effluents of  witchcraft and believe systems. Positives . Performances of almost all the leading and supporting characters were well and good, as they seems to be from the same village in real-life. It positively criticise the police department, politics, superstitions that are of contemporary relevance.  Background scores were gripping ,with clever night shots , it could create what a thriller must l

Chup, the revenge of an artist. Review

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 Chup, the revenge of an artist is a thriller cum romantic drama. It tells about an agonised film maker who take his revenge on film critics, as he is of the opinion that,criticism now a days is killing the film industry. Plot . The story goes parallelly when a young lady named Nila,an aspiring film enthusiast meets a florist(Danny) in the city and on the other side, four film critics were brutally tortured and killed. The dead bodies are found to be rated with stars on their forehead and the police investigate this crime by looking on every piece of information they can collect. Analysing the targets and intention of the killer, Police then make a trap by forcing Nila to write a bad review about a well- acclaimed film. The serial killer chases her to kill her but  caught by the police meanwhile. As the film is basically a straight line narrative, the role of Danny makes it all the difference. He is confused, irritated, and psychotic on one side, with severe childhood trauma and shatte