MAKEUP MAN

MAKEUPMAN

Theatre : TVM Ajantha
Showtime & Date : 2.05pm, 10-02-2011
Status : Upper Circle Full, FC 90%+

Shafi's MAKEUP MAN which started its shooting long before Marykkundoru Kunjaadu(Shafi's 2010 Christmas release which is a HIT) finally released. Hypes were there as this movie is
Shafi-Jayaram team after Shafi's debut film One Man Show & Shafi-Sachi-Sethu team after hit movie Chocolate. The movie is a clean entertainer & is sure to win at the box office.

Story
Balachandran aka Balu(Jayaram) becomes a loser in business as his event management business ends up in a big loss making him a person with lots of debt to be paid. Surya(Sheela Kaul) is in love with Balu for years. Her parents fixed their marriage once & stopped when Balu loses business. When her marriage got fixed wih other perso n,he elopes with Balu on the day before her marriage. Balu & Surya seeks Kichu's(Suraj Venjarammood) help, who is working as a production controller in film industry.With his help, they gets married. Kichu was then doing director Siddharth's(Siddhique) movie Cinderella starring Kunchacko Boban(as himself) & produced by Paul Kallingal(Janardhanan). Accidently Surya got introduced as the new heroine for the movie. Siddharth got impressed by Surya's performance & renames her as Anamika. To keep Balu always with Surya, Kichu makes Balu as her makeupman & to learn the work, Balu was asked to assist Lawrence(Salimkumar).Things change when she too got impressed by the filmworld & at a stage she was forced to tell that Balu is just her makeupman & not husband. What happens next is the rest of the story.

Performances
Jayaram as Balu was nothing new & not as impressive it has to be, except in few scenes. Janardhanan & Babu Namboothiriwas apt. Jagadeesh did the role of a lawyer with the slang he did in movie Kakkakuyil. T.P.Madhavan, Appa Haja, Shammi Thilakan.... were impressive in limited scenes. Saiju Kurup aka Aniruddh repeats what he did in movie Chocolate.

Sheela Kaul got a role with substance though it reminds Meena's role in movie Udayanaanu Thaaram. He did her part well.

Kunchacko Boban & Prithviraj as themselves were just for songs & very few scenes, mainly to add commercial value for the movie. Kunchacko Boban simply rocked in the first song with fast dance steps. Kamna was surprisingly good in her lip sync.

Jagathy, though he was there in parts, he simply rocked with his style of dialogues.
SalimKumar & Kalpana were wasted.

The real show stealers are Siddhique & Suraj Venjarammood, both got more number of scenes in the movie. Siddhique was fantastic with his style & Suraj tried all the ways he know to make us laugh & majority succeeded.

Songs
Two songs were there in the movie. Aaru Tharum featuring Kunchacko Boban with fast dance steps was SUPERB, while the other one featuring Prithviraj was not that impressive. Vidyasagar's melody worked well in Aaru Tharum song & sure to be in top charts. Alex Paul's BGM was apt.

Technical
Azhagappan's cinematography had only few good shots, we can't blame him as most of the scenes were interior ones. Editing was fine, but needs trimming in both halves at times-mainly because of the screenplay. Art direction was superb.

Script & Direction
Script by Sachi-Sethu is a predictable one with comic moments in proceedings. Script lags at times especially in second half mainly because we know the climax already & they seems to be in a confusion about what can be added in between before that. It is the racy direction by Shafi which makes the movie an entertainer. He was successful in making even the lagging moments to be an engaging one with fast proceedings. First half was a lengthy one & second half drags a bit in the Hyderabad episode. On the whole a clean ENTERTAINER.

Verdict : Fast Comedy Entertainer
BO Verdict : HIT

In the audio CD, there was one more song "Karimukile" a fast number. If that one was there, it would have given the movie a much more reach.

Kooval Festival was there for every frame showing Prithviraj & whenever some other character says like "Prithviraj"

Saiju Kurup/Aniruddh's dialogues were welcomed well with koovals but not as much for Prithviraj.