Ennalum ente aliya movie review

Enkilum Chandrike (Malayalam) Cast: Basil Joseph, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Saiju Kurup, Niranjana Anoop Director: Adithyan Chandrashekar Produced by: Friday Film House Music: Ifthi Run time: 2 hours 8 minutes Rural films have always had an audience in the Malayalam industry, and many have tasted success with subjects related to villages. Movies directed by Satyan Anthikad, Anil Babu, Rajasenan, and many other directors of yore, especially in the 1990s, had a knack for depicting village life. A new entrant to this category is Enkilum Chandrike. The 2008 release Malabar Wedding dealt with a similar plot, but mainly concentrated on activities during the bachelor’s party. How is Enkilum Chandrike different from other movies made in rural settings? Cliched format A still image from the movie Enkilum Chandrike. (Supplied) While the movie isn’t an exemplary one, it has some fine moments of laughter for the audience with its situational comedy. The movie has a decent script, which has elements of comedy, a twist in the tale, good songs, and so on, that are needed for a feel-good comedy entertainer. The director of the movie, Adithyan Chandrashekar, had earlier done a web series for the popular YouTube channel Karikku. He also acted in a movie produced by Vijay Babu under Friday Film House. Love, marriage, and elopement are the cliched elements in any movie. But the director’s brilliance is in turning old wine tastier in a new bottle. For that purpose, the director has a bunch of actors...

Ennalum Ente Aliya Rating: * ½ Not everything that comes from Malayalam cinema is worth our attention. This worthless witless comedy should never have been attempted; Perhaps talented actors like Suraj Venjaramood and Siddiqui need to loosen up once in a while. Suraj has recently been in a lot humourless situations in films that must have been emotionally exhausting. This doesn’t given him the right to inflict this dimwitted vapid comedy on us.It is set in Dubai, though I am not sure how much of it is actually shot in Dubai. Many sequences look fudged or shot in a studio with painted props outside the window suggesting the location rather than actually getting there. Suraj Venjaramood and Gayathri Arun play Balu and Lakshmi ,a childless couple who decide to “try” and conceive over the weekend. But God, and this dumb charade , have other plans for them. So Balu’s brother-in-law shows up. He is neither annoying nor intrusive. So how then is the couple’s conceived plan aborted? There is another couple in the neighbourhood(Dubai seems to be shrinking , what with so many Indians populating and copulating in the Gulf country) Karim and Sulu played by veterans Siddiqui and Leena . They are a Muslim couple with a problematic daughter who listens to her blaring music and dances (while her mother throws a fit) and talks to, gulp, boys when her parents are not around.All hell breaks loose when the Muslim couple’s daughter is suspected of eloping with Balu’s brother-in-law. The plot i...

Bash Mohammed’s Lukka Chuppi is one movie that is a personal favorite for me. And there was genuine excitement around his new project, Ennalum Ente Aliya, as he has blended humor and emotions flawlessly in the past. Ennalum Ente Aliya starts off in a seemingly interesting way, but somewhere around the midway, we can sense the delicate nature of the plot. And it becomes a film that depends too much on the laughter gags to cover up its efforts to look like a standard-length feature film. Balakrishnan, aka Balu, is an insurance agent in Dubai, and he lives with his wife there. The couple has been married for 8 years, and they are yet to have a child. What we see in Ennalum Ente Aliya are the events that happen in their house after the arrival of Balu’s brother-in-law, when a couple, Kabeer and Sulfi, comes to Balu’s house saying his brother-in-law is in a relationship with their daughter. Sidhique is an actor whose style of humor is very subtle, and even the most caricature-like reactions look very natural when he portrays them. I think this ability of actor Sidhique has helped the film Ennalum Ente Aliya enormously in covering up its cluelessness. Good movies will add layers to a core concept, and bad films will stuff tracks around the core concept. The reason why Ennalum Ente Aliya feels stretched out is because of the way it is forcefully squeezing in sequences. There is a sequence in the second half of the movie where Kareem loses it after having a few pegs. As a chopped-...