This Shaji Kailas directed film is meant for hardcore Mammootty fans. The hero, who plays double role, looks glamorous in his first avatar, has three youngsters for company, fights dozens at one go and has a defiant attitude. Sometime later, he comes in a second role, in a sanyasi look with coloured kurtas, shawl and three clean-shaven men chanting mantras, for company. If your idea of entertainment is within this territory, well, you may find this film an Okay one at best!

Pretty well begun and going nowhere from then on! That is precisely what one feels while coming out of the theatres after watching director Siddique’s Bodyguard.

S P Mahesh who rechristened himself as Mahesh P Sreenivasan for his second movie ‘My Big Father’ has managed to create one film that may called as just an OK endeavor. Much better than his debut film ‘Changathy Poocha’, this Jayaram movie is typically built around every hit prototypes of the star.

After an array of flop movies in 2009 like Red Chillies, Sagar alias Jacky Reloaded, Bhagavan and Angel John, Mollywood’s superstar has finally come up with a movie that can definitely bring him some relief for the year end. His Ividam Swargamanu, directed by veteran Roshan Andrews, is a typical village story, completely different from the early movies of Mohanlal.

For this Christmas, once again you have a movie plotted at a remote Tamil Nadu border, with all that colorful camera friendly costume worn dumb village people, two strong families at war for more than two decades, the entry of the hero to settle the war with some mysterious personal interests, the loud mouthed villain with that big moustache and another hundreds of regular features that you come across in almost all the hits of decade. Yes, this is an overall idea of ‘Chattambinaadu’- the new Mammootty movie in theatres, strictly made on the formula stuff with that very old wine story in another new bottle. What really makes a difference is the megastar adorning another sharply different look and slang for his protagonist character, who amuse, confuse and impress the viewers with dialogues that are more Kannada than Malayalam.