Super Sharanya: "Not quite as super as expected but it still entertains!!!"

At the turn of the New Year, a trailer that had captured attention was Girish A D's "Super Sharanya" & there were a couple of reasons for that. The first reason was obviously because it was Girish's second venture after the popular "Thanneer Mathan Dinangal" & secondly, the trailer captured the vibe of hostel life quite impressively. More often than not, the life in a boy's hostel is what is captured in movies & hence Girish's idea to capture it from a different perspective certainly made it interesting. However, there was an evident lack of content for a movie that lasted for close to 164 mins. 

Sharanya (Anaswara Rajan) had recently joined the Engg college & found it hard to adjust with the challenges that most freshers face such as ragging, hostel food, home sickness etc. To add onto that, there were quite a few such as her lecturer Arun (Vineeth Vishwam) & senior Ajith (Vineeth Vasudevan) who took an attraction towards her. How she deals with all these problems with the support of her friends forms the crux of the movie.

Just like in his debut venture, Girish was able to create an environment that endears to the audience with humorous sequences from hostel & college life. Most of the light moments does score with the audience including the character Ajith who seemed to have been modeled after 'Arjun Reddy'. But it meanders along at a sluggish pace after she meets up with Deepu (Arjun Ashokan) as it seemed like Girish had ran out of ideas as to how to take it forward. Unfortunately, instead of making it crisp it takes its own sweet time to culminate in a predictable love story that doesn't offer anything worthwhile to engage our attention. On the technical side, Sajith Purushan's visuals as well as Justin Varghese's music were fine especially the track 'Ashubha Mangalakaari'.

Each & every artist that was involved in the project have done justice to their roles with Mamitha Baiju being my personal favourite. She was spot on as the crazy & bindaas Sonare while Anaswara was apt as the meek protagonist. Naslen could have been given a bigger role while both the Vineeth's were equally good. As for Arjun Ashokan, kudos to his choice of movies which has slowly yet steadily enhanced his market value as a reliable artist.

Verdict: Though a sequence in the movie did mention as to why Sharanya was called super, it wasnt quite revealed later on. But certainly from an audience point of view, after a breezy first half it does drag quite a bit in the latter sections and hence 'super' is not a term that we would associate it with. However, it is still worth a watch for the humour!!!

Rating: 2.5/5

Regards...Ben