To meet my expectations of this movie, it was always going to be a challenge. Thanks to all those hype created after the unanimous positive reviews from all quarters … But fairly enough, it managed to pass the test with a first class!
STORY: About Anjali’s story and script, I rate it good but not great. It has a descent enough positive flow, but at times goes in some predictable lines and many parts inspired from Gowrikar’s ‘Swades’. What I liked about the story line is the way in which the Muslim background is used for the movie. We have seen many such ones in the past, but most of them are overdone. Here it’s used in a controlled manner and surely adds to the overall taste.
MUSIC: I am NOT a huge fan of ‘Appengal embaadum ..”, but I just love the way Music and Background score is used in this movie. May be it’s the best effort I saw in Malayalam where Music is used so effectively in sync with the scenes … Just keeps you hooked to the mood of the movie.
CAMERA: The Camera shots are eye pleasing, but surely it’s NOT a rarity in today’s new generation movie trend.
PERFORMANCE: Everyone agrees to one thing that Thilakan’s Karimka was the show stealer. But Dulqar did pretty well to do justice to the role. Siddique, Maamukoya as always kept the standard, Nitya is just improving with every movie.
DIRECTION: Anwar Rasheed surely scores the top marks. He controlled and crafted the movie pretty well and blessed it with some amazing sequences. The Sulaimaani Scene along with Karimka’s flashback will go down as a one of the all time classical sequences in Malayalam. I can see the movie twice again only for that sequence!
ALL IN ALL : Karimka tells to Faisee in the movie … “Any one can fill your stomach, but original ‘Kaypunyam’ is when your mind is also filled along with stomach”… This movie simply does that !
