About a week prior to the release of Priyan's "Marakkar", Nitin Renji Panicker released his "Kaaval" which was publicized as the return of the Superstar Suresh Gopi. Since I was kind of held up with professional commitments, I didn't quite find the time to pen my opinion about it at that point of time. However, y'day when I saw that the movie was still being beamed after three weeks of its release; I was wondering as to what would have been the reason why many would have warmed to it. Anyway glad to see a movie do well & hope other producers also get back their investments.
Antony (Renji Panicker) & Thampan (Suresh Gopi) were business partners who also looked out for the people in the region whenever the latter were denied justice. This in turn meant that there were no dearth in enemies for the dynamic duo. However, times have changed & Antony was a pale shadow of his former self not to mention that certain incidents in the past forced the friends to part way. This gave the enemies & their subsequent generation, the confidence to pick on him and his children. As matters started to get worse, he decided to reach out to his friend to help him out from the crisis.
When "Kaaval" was announced as the second directorial venture of Nithin, I would have to admit that it didn't quite excite me as I felt that his debut project "Kasaba" was mediocre. There is no doubt that he has improved as a director in his latest outing but the script was far from engaging. It was just a rehash of the typical movies of this genre with no effort taken to at least provide it with an air of freshness as it was a predictable sequence of events pretty much right through. Even the sequences which was supposed to evoke memories of yester year action movies of Suresh Gopi wasnt as impactful. On the technical side, Ranjin Raj's music was fine while the other aspects were ok.
Even after being away from the movies for quite a while, Suresh Gopi has still given a decent performance with the role that was offered to him. If more attention was paid to the screenplay, then he would have rocked for sure. Renji Panicker felt more impressive when he essayed the part of the present day while the younger version was average. As for the rest of the cast, Rachel David & Padmaraj Ratheesh did their parts aptly.
Verdict: Didnt quite have the impact as expected which is primarily coz of a lazy screenplay. If you ask me "Varane Avashyamunde" was indeed the comeback of Suresh Gopi rather than this one. In short, give it a try without much expectations!!!
Rating: 2.25/5
Regards...Ben
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