PRAMAANI ---- ' Very Typical '

Two months in exile from broken lenses....days and nights with my eyes hooked up on to the LCD monitor.....hands stuck to the keyboard...after the 7 frustrating months with the deceptively shallow recession period,coorporate life began to take its toll yet again......and hence the abundant silence in broken lenses over the past two months.

So time to break the silence with Paramani and In ghost House Inn.

Pramani....

B Unnikrishnan tries out another Maadambi this time with Malayalams Megastar.Plotted against the Kuttanadan Backdrop , Paramani tells the story of a corrupt Panchayat President - Vishvanatha panikar(Mammooty).The president who wisely involves in all issues in his village only to negotiate the deals to his advantage.Together with a team of corrupt members and the typical 'filmy money crazy relatives' panikkar reigns abolishing the feeble oppositions that arise in his village.The opposition though weak is strenthened by the neighbouring village panchayath president(Janardhanan) ,Vishwanatha panikers panchayath secretary(Sneha) and the young blood of Shanu's character ,who happens to be the son of Panikkers late friend(Prabhus role).Prabhus character and Panikker were close friends since thier childhood and had similar political ideas.Both were equal in the eyes of Prabhu's character's Mother (Lekshmi)as well.
In an effort to pocket a large slump of money, panikker's panchayat comes to a deal with an IT company that agrees to convert the paddy lands in his village to an IT park.With an increasing number of his sincere relations going to the opposition side,panikkers mind tends to under go the cinematic change of the negative hero to the ideal one.As expected ,this makes his his previous well wishers go against him while the previous oppositions go ahead with him.How Panikker sorts out his enimies and the Land Mafia issues is what the rest of the movie is all about.

B Unnikrishnan deserves some credit for the fact that whatever presented is neat though there is nothing much to boast about.Most of the characters seems to be picked directly from his previous flick Maadambi.The veteran Mammootty has a cakewalk role in the shoes of Vishvanatha panikker with very little scenes to perform.Unnikrishnan should take the blame for not having shot the confrontation scenes with the required punch to elate the fans/crowd.With the story being old as malyalam cinema, Unnikrishnan should also have shown some sense to go for sequences/scenes that were out of the routinte stuff.Some of the dialogues and scenes tends to promise to deliver but falls short lacking the energy.This issue was really obivious in Maadambi too but there it was much well packed.Songs are worth litsening and well picturised.Comedy plot by Suraj is stupid and irritating.Lakshmi and Sneha puts in decent performances while KPAC lalitha had a great time lying in the bed with a single dialouge over the entire movie.Janardhanan role as the rebel president is well characterised.Siddique repeats his villainic act for the n+1th time.Other characters like baiju,'Slim' kumar,Shanu etc does not have much to do.

PRAMANI could have been better with a more energy filled treatment,it is still a decent family movie Nevertheless.