Nadikar
In one line,a story that could have been made better with a good script but lacked enough strength in the screenplay to keep the audience emotionally connected to the movie.
The story is about an actor who becomes an overnight sensation with his initial movies,gets obsessed to the stardom,fame due to his immature nature and arrogant attitude towards his colleagues losing track in career and his deliberate attempt to regain it back.
The first half of the movie takes us through the stardom, popularity of the cinema fraternity. We can see Tovino getting lost in the world of stardom,booze,drugs,girls and he loses his girlfriend Ann Bhama,played by Bhavana due to his immature attitude. He gets into ego clash with a senior filmmaker and got tagged as a trouble maker in the industry now wants a industry hit somehow. His Personal Secretary/Manager seeing his situation advises him to take help of an acting groomer but he initially opposed due to the stardom factor on his head. Unwillingly he shakes hands with the character played by Soubin Shahir,a theatre actor with accreditation from international circles. His attempt to coach Tovino was a failure due to his arrogance and dominant behaviour towards the groomers ideology of All are actors and there are no superstars.
Second half of the movie shows where David Padikkal reflects on his past and tries to make consensus with the ones he had issues with and takes a determined effort to improve his career rather than sticking on to the stardom. We can see director taking the audience through his broken childhood and trauma he had faced which have led to the formation of an arrogance and carefree attitude in David Padikkal.
All actors have performed their part but there is nothing excited in the story at all. The movie is very well predictable and has cliche dialogues. Bhavana has only few shots in the movie and no avenues to enhance her performance. Tovino and Suresh Krishna's outlook and appearance was interesting.
Rating - 2.75/5.
