Aakashaththinte niram

    Nice movie - reminded me of  Kim Ki Duk's 'Spring , Summer , Autumn , Winter' for the cut-off island and the maturing of the protagonist against the masterfulness of old man nedumudi venu.
     The movie was quite involving. It teaches you to drop out of the rat race and work towards service of fellow human beings. Real joy is not in grabbing stuff from others but in being of help to others.
   There is one song - I believe a baul song and it was quite appealing.

Spirit : Malayalam movie

      Saw this an hour after seeing 'Thattaththin Marayaththu'. The difference in maturity was quickly evident as was the striking cinematography.
      Set in high society, Mohanlal plays a successful TV show conductor who is chronically alcoholic.He has been extremely convincing in his performance.
    It was a very ambitious project from Ranjith. Alcoholism is a very wide spread problem in Kerala. There is a lot of potential in the subject.If he can get to some of the root causes and expose the menace in a convincing manner, he can exert influence on the society.But the movie has not lived up to such standards in content but the choice of effort was right.
     The execution is masterful for most part. However, the portion where the TV show peeps into the home of a plumber stood out ugly in the script.The plumber going for de-alcoholising does not excuse this.To make matters even worse,the hidden cam even shows the closet.From then on, the movie failed.
After showing the changed plumber, mohanlal as the show host advices his TV audience and us the cinema audience on de-alcoholism.Very un-subtle.I would be truly surprised if the movie has convinced alcoholics to de-drink - very unlikely.Nobody gets fooled here - somebody deep within you has to be fooled emotionally for you to stop drinking. Lal stopped drinking when his friend dies in his hands. The viewer faces nothing at all.
       The songs of the movie on the other hand are perfect. Excellent poetry . Excellent music. Excellent rendition. Touches you deeply and lingers on.My poet wife had mentioned Rafeeq Ahmed as a great lyricist before the movie and later we realized that the well structured complete lyrics of this movie also came from the same pen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xM_Ww6ukEE&list=PL34hFPMR7wmRVIEisgiLReHcy4wbUfg9r&feature=mh_lolz
        Cinematography is excellent too.The movie is a great watch.The high points are music , cinematography, mohanlal, short but excellent performance by Tilakan and the failure point is that I don't see the movie exerting influence on alcoholics.

Thattaththin marayaththu

   Ideally, one should have no perception of the movie before starting off watching it. But I held one - this movie is made by a very young director Vineeth Sreenivasan and hence the movie would reflect inexperience. Well, that anticipation helped. It was better than the anticipation.
    The best part of the movie was Ayesha and her beauty.  Nivin pauly has acted well and has captured the head-over-heels-in-love endearingly.

   The movie is sprinkled with songs all along and that adds to the general feel-good of the movie.In fact,  movie is all feel-goods and not much of a story.
    There were some good humor scenes too. Abdu as Vinod's friend has done a good job. The audience shared good laughs through out the movie.
   However, I am not sure how to explain such huge success that the movie has claimed. It is a soother and a nice one - good job Vineeth.