Jayaram seems to be in a deep turmoil where he just can’t hope for a magical movie to give a fresh life to his career. His latest, to add to the list of non starters will be ‘Magic Lamp’, the movie which was waiting in the cans for the last seven years. And as expected, this identical individuals’ tale definitely give that depressing, silly air of the nineties. This logic-defying, light-hearted comedy (intended) movie seems to be caught in a time warp, which never ever will manage to entertain the viewers of the new millennium.

ShakespeareMA Malayalam appears maddeningly disjointed on occasions, but remarkably amusing at others. Its a mixed bag of emotions at play here that will have you hooked most of the time, and you have a delightful comedy that’s brought to life by a fine cast and a creative director duo at its helm.Shakespeare Pavithran (Jayasurya) is an Award winning playwright battling the writer’s block. Off he goes to the rustic locales in search of a story, accompanied by a lunatic gang of actors dying to take the stage by storm. Pavithran gets all set with his pen, and along comes Alli (Roma), the village lass with a truck load of troubles and more in store. As Alli puts up a royal fight against the odds, Pavithran the onlooker, waits anxiously on his toes for the denoument of his new play.

‘Aandavan’is a regular Kalabhavan Mani affair -yet another take which glorify one-man vigilant justice. And as usual with his films, this too remains unsurprising and predictable to the core. In an obvious attempt at making a formulaic masala movie, the creators come up with another that turns out far from satisfactory.

Now it’s a trend in the industry to make films on plots of friendship .Even a lot of other language films like ‘Happy Days’ raked in big profits from Kerala while dealing with such plots. Following this propensity for youthfulness in style and narratives, filmmaker V K Prakash has accomplished another movie made on the tender alliance of friendship and love.

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