JANAPRIYAN

JANAPRIYAN

When I entered the theatre, status was just 27 people. When the show started, it got increased to around 70. Thanks to SENIORS for its housefull shows & heavy returns.

Theatre : TVM Kripa
Showtime & Date : 6.15pm, 21-05-2011
Status : Balcony No idea, FC around 70 people

Another TV serial director Boban Samuel is making his debut in bigscreen with Krishna Poojappura's script who delivered 3 hits(Ivar Vivahitharaayaal, Happy Husbands, Sakudumbam Shyamala) & a disaster(Four Friends). 

Story
Priyadarsan aka Priyan(Jayasurya) is a villageman fron Thonnakkal, Thodupuzha who does almost all jobs to meet his family needs. He gets a temparory job in Thaluk Office on the post of Vysakhan(Manoj K Jayan) who was forced to take 5 years leave from service as he's an aspiring film director who is always film producers without doing office works. Priyan meets Bhama, who introduces herself as maid in the house nearby his lodge & falls in love. Problem starts when Vysakhan decides to cancel his leave & be back in service.

Performances
Jayasurya as Priyan could not make any impact on audience except a few oneliners on script. Though his looks & gestures were okay, his Thonnakkal slang seems to be a forced one as it seems unconvincing in many scenes. His innocence seems to be forced & inconsistent in the movie. Watch Mammootty's LOUDSPEAKER movie to see how well he handled that slang. Manoj K Jayan had a set of scenes in script to score but failed at many scenes though 1-2 situational ones makes us laugh. Bhama was usual only in songs & around 10 scenes. Sarayu was just OK. Jagathy had nothing much to do. Devan repeats his role in movie Priyam. Lalu Alex was usual only. Suresh as Manoj K Jayan's assistant tried to imitate Suraj in the beginning scenes, later it was OK. Anoop Chandran, Geetha Vijayan... were ok only.

Bheeman Raghu was wasted in not so well developed comic character. His gestures & mimicry in opening scene & other scenes failed to evoke laughter. Bheeman Raghu has got the best intro scene in the movie.

The real show stealer was SALIMKUMAR in his limited role. He simply steals the scenes in which he appear with smart dialogues & gestures. SUPERB!!!


Songs
Songs by debutant R.Gowtham were OK as audio only but works well with movie scenes. Remix of hindi version of Maadapraave from Madanolsavam was bad. BGM by BijiBal was usual only as for these kind of movies.

Technical
Cinematography by Pradeep Nair was good with some good frames in songs & Thonnakkal episode. Editing could have been much more better. Art direction was ok. Sound recording & mixing by R.Rajakrishnan(4 Frames) did a good job in the beginning, later it ended as a routine work.

Script & Direction
After the disaster Four Friends, Krishna Poojappura seems to be handling the script with safer department for him - the happenings in goverment offices. To an extent he tried to present the storyline in somewhat new package at parts of the movie. Character Priyan looks inconsistent as he was presented as too innocent at parts who has zero knowledge about cinema, who was given an intro song showing him he has got some info about everything. Script was just average only as it offers nothing new & less comedy compared to Krishna Poojappura's previous hits. Direction by Boban Samuel should be blamed for making this movie as what it is now. Direction was not at all racy. He handled many scenes carelessly. If some more experienced directors handled those scenes it would have been a jokebox. He was simply copying the script to screen with camera I think. The story telling episode clearly shows his lack of experience. But director handled song sequences very well. Most of the story happenings are in songs. After the hero meets heroine, immediatly comes a song in which hero & heroine hardly looks each other & after that a scene in which heroine says like I had fallen in love with the hero. Such a jetspeed love development was not seen even in Tamil Cinema. A movie which could have been a good entertainer with lots of laughs ended up as a strictly average movie with a very few laughs at parts.

Verdict : Striclty Average, recommended for a DVD watch
BO Verdict : May enter the safe side if production cost is low, otherwise flop as the word of mouth is not that encouraging.

Better invest your money for SENIORS or KO eventhough its a second time watch.

A fans association flex for Suresh was there in the theatre.

This one seems to be the first script of Krishna Poojappura which does not have SURAJ VENJARAMMOOD.