Four Friends --- Lost chance

The latest flick from the successful duo saji surendran -krishna poojappura tells the story of four friends Roy(Jayaram),Surya (chackochan),Aamir(Jaysurya)and Meera's character.They all hail from different background,life styles etc but are destined to meet together in life due to a common factor- that they are all down ridden by cancer.Together they decide to enjoy the last few days of their life trying to fullfill their dreams with the help of the multi millionaire in them -Roy.Till here the plot seems to be fine.One could have expected to be a part of their fun filled moments from here on but on the contrary Saji-Krishna chooses the overdose of sentiments that unfortunately kills the whole purpose of the movie.

Having promoted the movie as a colourful -fun filled entertainer one would feel it to be disappointing with the overdoing of negative emotions.Coming to the performances Jayasurya steals the show yet again with a sparkling performance as ameer,The effort he puts behind the minute details of his characters is sure to give the added mileage to this guy.Deserves the kudos for having managed his career the way he has.Jayaram,Kunchakko and meera doesnt have something too different to do but did help in creating some moving moments.Salimkumar was irritating at times but won the cheers of the audience and suraaj soon followed with his typical stuffs.The crowd response for the comedies were more out of some relief from the senti stuff rather than it being too hilarious.Rest of the cast lalu alex,seema,ganesh,siddique etc did well enough.Kamals cameo at interval does help to create some waves among the viewers. Songs are well tuned and colourfully shot.Screenplay by krishna poojappura and the direction by Saji de tours to their tele-soap path often .It is definitely here that the movie falls flat.

Happy husbands(from the same team) with its slapstick illogical comedies became a super hit here because it delivered what it had promised.Four friends is definitely a lost chance for saji-krishna to make it their best movie to date.I would rate it to a 5/10 for the message,the theme and some touching moments. Thumbs down four friends ... :-( .