I am pretty sure that most of you would have raised your eye brows seeing the title & assumed that both the movies might have a common theme. Well they don't actually, as both of them belong to different genres & yet both of them on the surface did seem to have an interesting subject. Sohan Seenulal has helmed "Bharatha Circus" & focuses on exploitation of the lower class of the society while Rohit Shetty's "Cirkus" was inspired from Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors'. Unfortunately, both of them failed to do justice to what was expected of them.
Bharatha Circus (Rating: 1.5/5)
Muhad Vembayam has penned the script in which the movie unfolds with Lakshmanan (Binu Pappan) goes to the police station to report the death of his daughter. However, he suspected foul play & wanted CI Jayachandran (MA Nishad) police to unravel the mystery behind it. Incidentally, at the same time the CI & his team were pre-occupied with another issue in which the Naxalites were believed to be involved. Whether the police be able to provide justice to the father forms the basis of this movie.
There is an undeniable effort to reveal the prejudices of the State machinery & the casteist mentality of many people especially those who are in power. The primary flaw in the movie is the amount of time that it takes to come to the main subject (which in itself is an indication that they dont much idea) & even after it does, nothing much worthwhile happens as it proceeds in a rather predictable manner. They try to include other social issues as a side track & in the end, the way it concluded felt rather awkward with regard to what they wanted to convey. In terms of the technical aspects & performances, it was average at best.
Cirkus (Rating: 0.5/5)
Well as I mentioned earlier, it is based on the 'Comedy of Errors' whereby there are two sets of twins & one infant from each set was intentionally interchanged by the scientist / caretaker of the orphanage when they were adopted. Apparently, Dr. Roy (Murali Sharma) wanted to prove his hypothesis on nature vs nuture that rather than the genes it is the manner in which children are raised that determines the type of human beings the become.
The movie is set in the 1960s & Jomon along with the help of the art department has shot more than 95% of it in vibrantly coloured sets that shouts of artificiality. Im pretty sure that Rohit wanted to give that impression to the audience but then the humour that should come along with it barely took off. Most of it falls flat & the story as such failed to evoked any sense of interest. The screenplay by Yunus Sajawal was pathetic while the dialogues by Farhad Samji, Sanchit Bedre & Vidhi Ghodgaonkar works in some places (some segments of Sanjay Mishra). Coming to the cast, despite many featuring in it; none of them quite stood out as the written material itself was mediocre.
Verdict: In short, both of them turns out to be a rather laborious experience!!!
Regards...Ben
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