Malayalees, in the recent times, had been rejecting
all the formula stuffs and 'old wine in the new bottle' movies,
resulting in the downfall of many of the films from the big stars. And
as Prithvi was getting ready to meet the cine goers with his first
film of the year 'Masters', the question often aired was how far
freshness can Prithvi and his crew offer to the Mollywood viewers. The
movie which also highlighted the presence of Tamil actor -director
Sasikumar to Pia Bajpaai and teaming up of Prithvi with Johny Antony, a
director who is specialised in making light hearted moves, clearly
created some high flying expectations. Now after watching the movie, the
final word is that Prithvi and his crew has fairly succeeded in making a
watchable thriller, and the rest of the performance in the B O will now
depend solely on the fanfare of the star and its marketing.
The movie has Prithviraj as Sreeramakrishnan I P S ,
an young upright ACP whose only big friend is Milan Paul ,(Sasikumar) a
apprehensive journalist, who fear of inviting troubles with his juicy
stories . An intense friendship that started at their college days,
Sree regularly takes advices from his journo friend whenever he
alights on an investigative spree.
Sree is now assigned to find clues into the murder of
a prominent businessman, who has been thrice labelled in rape cases.
The murder is reported to have taken place by suicide bombs set by an
young girl named Daksha( Pia Bajpei) who interestingly doesn't have any
relationship with the killed person . Shortly thereafter Sreeramakrishan
is fated to see some more killings in similar fashion where the actual
killers who are unknown to the killed ones are also found dead in the
operation. As dead bodies starts piling up, Sree traces the backgrounds
of each of the victims and finds a curious link between the incidents.
This forms the backbone of the movie which interests with its wise
scheming of the central plot.
It's not the crew or the director but the debutante
scriptwriter Jinu Abraham who must be surely applauded for weaving a
fine suspenseful thriller from a shallow plot. The crew must also be
congratulated for taking up a theme that deals with the trauma and
psyche of innocent victims of rapes and scandals, that has become the
daily talk of the state. Johny Antony, who is for the first time into a
full length action thriller, takes time to engage us in the opening
reels, but offer a intriguing interval and second half, who is devoid of
any big pitfalls. The only problem with the movie is that Sasikumar's
character of Milan Paul, is not in the lines of his powerful roles that
the actor-director has done in his Tamil flicks and his dubbing and
lip-sync fails big time, even to give us an air of a miscast. The lead
duo also shares no camaraderie and the director's attempts to work on
their friendship in the initial sequences falls flat. The climax to the
story is not bad, but considering the pace punch and superb builtup of
the second half, it could have been better to opt for a more
unpredictable finale.
Taking about performances, Prithvi is in a dependable
role that moves in a straight line path. The young actor has done his
best and is appealing in the role. Sasikumar in his debut role is fine,
but could have been of more impact , if the dubbing side managed to
work a little more sharper. The rest of the cast including Salimkumar,
Saikumar , Biju menon, Pia, Mukesh, Sandhya and Ananya does justice to
their roles, though they all have very little screen time.
The technical sides of the movie are also fine with
Ranjan Abraham making some finer cuts, especially in the second half.
Madhu Neelakantan has etched out some good, appropriate visuals and
thrilling chases and fight scenes, while the only song 'Suhurthu' and
its visuals remain average. Gopi Sundar's title track is fine, but the
BG scores in total fails to reach the benchmark set by the composer in
his early films.
All in all, this Masters' is a differently made
thriller that may gratify your expectations for an onetime watch. As the
ruling superstars of Mollywood fails again to keep their films afloat,
it need to be seen how the young star Prithviraj bring in the masses to
the screening venues with this fine thriller.
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