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Movie: Thaanthonni
Language: Malayalam
Date 19, March, 2010

Review
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Imagine a movie in which the script writer is hell bound at telling all
the stories in the world within that one single movie combined with a
director who has no control where the movie is heading to. Looks like a
Combustible Combination in over drive. Right? This is exactly what T.A
Shahid and George Varghese do in the latest Prithviraj movie
'Thaanthonni'. There are not one but three 'Thaanthonnis' (Disobidient
ones) in the movie. T.A Shahid, George Varghese and Prithviraj. And what
results is ‘movie mayhem’!

The Story - Over Written
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TA Shahid believes in over writing this story to the point that no one
cares beyond a point. The first one hour is the saving grace in the
movie. Its watchable.The antics of Prithviraj as 'Kochukunju' are kind
of bearable and the first flash back arrives. You still feel that though
everything happening is formulaic, its all as expected. But soon the
interval scene arrives and what is clearly inspired from 'Puthiya
Mugham' goes all sour in a poorly written and executed scene.After the
interval, all hell breaks loose and its a downward spiral from then on.
To a point, when it becomes a torture chamber where you are forced to
watch the second flashback story, Prithviraj's Sagar Alias Jackey act,
tear-jerker family scenes and reunion of the old couples. Oh my God,
they can use this one for the Guantanamo Torture Chambers, if they still
have them open.

Directon - Lack of One
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George Varghese has no clue where the movie is going for once. He
completely has given the reigns over to TA Shahid's story and script
which keeps on over running. Most of the scenes are so poorly executed
that from the word go you get the idea that this new director lacks
vision of his kind of cinema. A story has to be told in its sincerity
and trueness. Everything of that sort is missing here. It seems director
thinks that too many flashbacks means a great story or at least the
scriptwriter has impressed that point on him. We surely do not need poor
clones of Joshy. The original one is still alive and kicking. Scene
after scene you understand that not even chopping off 30-45 minutes of
the movie can save it. Its was never destined to be a sane movie. At a
running time of 2 hours and 30 minutes, 'Thaanthooni' is torture.

The Rebel Hero
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No Mincing words here. Prithviraj is below par in 'Thaanthooni'. He has
charm in many portions, agreed but it cannot be called even as a good
performance in a bad movie.
His scenes in the first half as a drunkard poorly ape Mohanlal. Its
almost as if you can see Lal performing in all his drunakrd mannerisms.
And he commits criminal
mistakes in the kind of scenes that he has agreed to do. He is over
stylish and loads of reels are wasted to show him as some 'super power'.
Horrendous! Finally all the good will which Puthiya Mugham and
Robinhood to certain extent had created have been vanished. No longer
one can believe that the young star has a sane head on his shoulders.
The script selection , the director everything is shoddy. Puthiya Mugham
was sincere, precise, to the point and a performance well delivered in a
commercial set up. 'Thaanthonni' takes him a few years backwards. He
delivers 4-5 minutes long dialogues trying to be like Mammotty and Lal
in One man hero movies, but haven't we seen that all with them. This is
not the change that we are looking for. We thought the new generation
star would think like the new generation and have better sensibilities.
This is like back to square one.

Rest of the Bits and Pieces
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Ambika in a tear jerker mother role is filling up the screen space -
literally. Loads and loads of characters but none leaves an impression.
Poor old Suraj cracks some
one liners and scores. Jagathy is funny in a short role. Heroine is
wasted for a song and few scenes. Cinematography is amateurish. Gopi
Sundar does a decent job and
is one of the positive points of this movie. Tej Mervin's poor tunes
remind us of Deepav Dev's valuable contribution in the success of
Puthiya Mugham.

Finally, 'Thaanthonni' has neither soul or sincerity nor purpose. Its
like those B grade movies wrapped in to a family tearjerker. No one
expected a master piece. Frankly
even an average movie would have been a positive surprise. But even with
such low expectations, 'Thaanthonni' fails miserably. Sorry, to say the
young super star, you have a long way to go in choosing scripts and
getting them executed.

Verdict - 1.5 / 5 as Rating
'Torture' as Opinion

'Thaanthonni' - Get ready to be Tortured.

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