Bhramaram

Somehow I felt the film was a great letdown. If somebody is to consider this as the movie where Lal has proved his acting then I don't think so. Lal has done it time and again in the past and this movie just again shows that Lal can do it. But let us look at it in a whole. Don't we have scenes in this movie created for Lal to just emote whithout an organic connection to the overall movie? I think yes. And that also may have killed the movie. That is also why characters do not seem to have grown through the movie and etched a permanant place in the viewer's mind.

Of course, needless to say the script was incomplete and lacking cohesion. As a one liner the plot somehow seems good enough; interesting enough and intuiging enough. But what was needed was some sensible developement - tell what needs to be told and dont tell anything extra(which is a big complaint I have with Blessy scripts after kazhca and probably Thanmathra) That acute sense of appropriateness that we used to see in Padmarajan, Lohi and MT scripts are seriously missing in Blessy scripts.

Another note that I want to mention is the casting - the whole casting of Mohanlal's family and his flashback is pathetic to say the least. Bhumika Chawla and the kid casted as Mohanlal's daughter irritates and takes all the life out of the most critical sequences in the movie. That was another really sad part of this movie.

As a post note, as a simple film viewer Bhramaram disappoints much more than an average movie (like Bagyadevatha which delivered what it promised), by overpromising and underdelivering.