Bhramaram

Bhramaram had given in high hopes when it was announced to be a Suspense Road thriller from Blessy and Mohanlal team. I expected the feel of Thaazhvaaram and Road (Ram Gopal Varma). I don’t know when the caption ‘Brutally Innocent’ came in – (I believe it was added at the very last moment of the film release) but the Hero’s definition goes in flow with this caption rather than the older ones – Suspense Thriller, Road Thriller.. etc
But the high hopes and expectations to see a suspense thriller flick as read from the posters were all put down and the film turned out to be a very lagging dragging long dull and disappointing one.

Story – A person is sent to juvenile home cheated by his friends in schooldays for a crime he never committed comes out from jail and does not go in for any revenge but stays peaceful and calm (does that reminds you of any other Mohanlal film?) He lives changing his identity but suddenly loses his wife and child because his crime is revealed to them by someone else. He goes finding his friends to reveal the truth behind the crime to his daughter and wife to prove his innocence.

The story lacks anything new, unwanted scenes like Bomb blast and rash driving, which I think were used to bring in the feel of a thriller didn’t quite work out. The story had no usual turn points it just went on and the ‘suspense’ as it was to be, could be predicted at a very early stage of the film itself. The scenes which were used to make the audience go into a nail biting reaction were very often used and so did not give in any reaction other than of “oh.. I’ve seen this many times before”. Blessy, a nice realistic story teller was found lacking his sense at many scenes throughout the film. In some scenes Blessy goes to the standards of Vinayan films & malayalam soap serials. Many dialogues seem un-filmy. The ultimate funny element is where you see the villain (so-called as per film) begins to sing a friendship song for you. You can predict the scenes and dialogues before hand and that’s not expected from any Suspense thriller.

It would have been a nice film if the story was told as an action film as there is very little scope for suspense in it.

The Cast - Mohanlal, the exceptionally talented versatile actor has done his role very naturally as in his every movie, but in many scenes he reminds us of thanmatra.

The heroine bhoomika Chawla was good only for the glamour show, may be that will bring in some crowd.
Lakshmi gopalaswamy is good for the role and goes in with the flow as in many other recent mohanlal films (well that’s our lalettans personal life, we needn’t interfere in it: P  ) Sukumari has nothing else but to do the crying mother of the hero.

The villain is also ok. But the second villain guy who played a doctor seems out of pitch in some scenes, but he also goes with the flow.

The child artist who played Heroes daughter was real pathetic, and the dubbing also seemed very down rated. I don’t find fault with the inexperienced innocent child, but with the talented professional experienced Director and his crew.

The only thing that’s good in the lot are the excellent songs and Re-recording (Background music score) by Mohan Sithara and the camera done by Ajay Vincent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTCcDZ77zK0

The theatre atmosphere never looked like first day of Mohanlal release and the crowd that came out of the theatre had a lazy tired and weird look just like coming out from some Adoor’s award movie.