Sathyan Anthikkad+Mohanlal+Manju Warrier. What do you expect? Fireworks? But this one was a dampener. Average is the best description for Ennum eppozhum. And that average grade goes largely for the one wonderful classical verging on semi-classical dance performance by Manju Warrier.
A better script by Ranjan Pramod may have helped. The story by Raveendran also has too many sub plots which distract you instead of contributing to the overall good of the movie.Nowhere do you really laugh your heart out. Like Priyadarshan's, has Sathyan Anthikkad's bag of tricks been exhausted? The situations are contrived and coincidences galore, like the hera and heroine accidentally meet at all the right places for the story to proceed. Come on, the audience has grown up! They don't swallow things as they did four decades ago any more.
Renji Panikkar's character was not delineated well enough. A villain who was later turned into a buffoon when two plus hours of the movie got over to avoid a loose end? Every other character was a hangover of old Sathyan movies. Manju Warrier did try hard enough and so did Mohan Lal. Lena came out well, in fact, natural. The songs just did not stay in the mind. That something which the audience longed for and expected just wasn't there. The magic that Aaraam Thamburaan and Kanmadam gave us with these two will always be remembered. You can't club this movie with those. But curiosity will kill the cat and the combo works. An opportunity that has not been exploited.
Prema Manmadhan
A better script by Ranjan Pramod may have helped. The story by Raveendran also has too many sub plots which distract you instead of contributing to the overall good of the movie.Nowhere do you really laugh your heart out. Like Priyadarshan's, has Sathyan Anthikkad's bag of tricks been exhausted? The situations are contrived and coincidences galore, like the hera and heroine accidentally meet at all the right places for the story to proceed. Come on, the audience has grown up! They don't swallow things as they did four decades ago any more.
Renji Panikkar's character was not delineated well enough. A villain who was later turned into a buffoon when two plus hours of the movie got over to avoid a loose end? Every other character was a hangover of old Sathyan movies. Manju Warrier did try hard enough and so did Mohan Lal. Lena came out well, in fact, natural. The songs just did not stay in the mind. That something which the audience longed for and expected just wasn't there. The magic that Aaraam Thamburaan and Kanmadam gave us with these two will always be remembered. You can't club this movie with those. But curiosity will kill the cat and the combo works. An opportunity that has not been exploited.
Prema Manmadhan
