Monday, August 24, 2009

Puthiya Mukham, puthiya bore

Phew! Saw Puthiya Mukham. Got a headache watching the terrible angles of the camera. Wide angle shots for every frame almost does not exactly calm you. Wonder why this love for wide angle shots. It looked like a camera was placed at the disposal of this chap and he went berserk! And then I thought whether it was the Malayalam version of Crouching Tiger Hidden Lion.
The story is strange, stranger still its execution. Prithviraj has had to deal with a bad script, but he has tried to redeem the movie, but in vain. Meera Nandan is quite plumpy and therefore has lost the lovely shape of her face.
Priyamony has oomph and despite the bad role, brought some freshness to the movie, though she cannot dance to save her life.
Bala looks merely like a thug and does not rise above that. Two songs are good, the one by KK and the title song, okay.
What stands out like a sore thumb is the camerawork. Diphan, the director needs to apprentice with a good director for some more time. Hard earned money gone down the drain, and worse luck, all that time, my God!