Ayisha, Malayalam movie review

" Am not a slave of my past, not an owner of my future. Am letting my life just go.." as Ayisha put her life lesson straightly, we all can precisely feel her from the screen. Its all about the actress Manju warrier and her ability to take up all the responsibility onto her shoulders and once again underlined her title as a "Female super star."

The Plot.

The film starts when Ayisha migrates to Riyadh in search of a job as a home maid in a wealthy Elite islamic family. Ayisha and Mama, the supreme women of the family become attached deeply as mama feels very happy and comfortable with the company of Aisha. As Ayisha was a popular theatre artist and a communist leader in kerala, her identity got revealed when she went out for a shopping outside the palace on a friday. Her fans and fellow comrades realised her situation and helps her family in kerala to get ride of her miseries and urge ayisha to come back in theatres.

Aisha comes back from Riyadh leaving mama as mama consider herself wrong if she employs a talented artist like Ayisha in her palace. When mama's health conditions became severe, the royal family calls ayisha back to the palace inorder to make their Mama happy for the rest of her life. Ayisha came back to Riyadh and take care of Mama till her death and come back to kerala leaving the palace.

Positives.

1) Its a decent depiction of the luxurious arab world and their lavish lifestyle with all the royal outfits that makes each frame surprisingly beautiful.

2) The leading performers were Ayisha(Manju varrier and Mama, both have done a great job. Mama, brilliantly explores the authority of a Royal lady and at the same time kicks up the emotional dusts of her palace life and old age. Manju warrier is all about Ayisha, or we can say Ayisha is all about Manju warrier. She symbolises a helpless woman at her late middle age but still managed to keep hopefulness in every horrible situations she goes through. She is brave, bold and skillful at the same time sensitive, calm and cute even at her 40s.

3) Though there are so many underwritten characters in the film, but the writer brings up the narration easily through ayisha through her reactions and life quotes.

4) The film shows the appreciable aspects of arab world unlike some recent propaganda films with political agenda.

Negatives.

1) Well its not a negative point that the film is bilingual in its content. The dailogues are malayalam, arabic and occasionally in Hindi. Some audience may not be able to comprehend this realistic way of bilingual narration.

2) 142 minute running time, may feel so long because there are some scenes either not well-written or cliched style of exaggeration. The film don't have any such unpredictable twists and turns.

Rating.

Am giving 8/10 to Ayisha as i can clearly feel the responsibilities in her shoulders, miseries she had gone through, and the uncertainty she may follow in future. But as Ayisha says," now i wear this. Now i believe this, because i started believing in different things in different places.. "