![]() ![]() The period when the industry was flooded with films set in conservative middle-class households. Tension escalates further when the girl puts her foot down and declares that she won’t stay in the marriage unless the furniture is carried all the way from Kerala to the Bangalore apartment where she has just moved in with her husband.Īlamaara is an unintentional tribute to a slice of bygone era in Malayalam cinema. The groom’s family, already miffed with their new relatives, refuse to accommodate the furniture in their family residence. In Midhun Manuel Thomas’s Alamaara (Wardrobe), a newly-wed couple’s life turns into a mess, thanks to a huge wooden wardrobe that the bride’s parents gift them for their wedding. However, their performances do not matter as this is a film that deserves to be forgotten at the earliest as a bad dream. There are actors like Ranji Panikker and Chemban Vinod Jose who sincerely try to hold their own in this chaos. She plays a young, soon-to-be-nun whom George romances forcefully. That Rejisha Vijayan, a State Award-winning actress, chose to act in this film is unfortunate. There is a cringe-worthy scene in which he looks at Malavika Nair, a 17-year-old actress in amazement and declares that she is ‘great work’. Where are the young girls you had promised to bring?” he asks a driving school tutor whose students are older women.ĭespite everything he does, Dileep’s act falls through, and he appears the way he is – as a middle-aged man desperately trying to shed years off his age. ![]() Moreover, he body shames women who are past their youth. Dileep, who is 48, tries his best to behave like a thirty-year-old man – he dances at temple fests, acts like a naughty little boy in front of his mother, and tries to woo Rejisha who is in her early twenties. They are just unemployable loafers with no distinct qualities.ĭileep, Sharafuddeen and Vinay Fort, plainly, don’t look like peers. But it’s hard to take the portion seriously as George and his friends do not come across as innocuous men who would shed their laziness and insensitivity for any reason. In the second half, the film tries to become a sports drama, with the men taking up the game of Kabaddi to reclaim their favourite hangout spot – ironically – from its rightful legal owner. In all fairness though, Georgettan’s Pooram has no rape jokes. These films, oddly enough, had managed to collect a good amount from the box-office. In Mayamohini again, a family-entertainer, a comedy scene involves two guys trying to rape Dileep who is in a female get-up. One of Dileep’s earlier blockbusters, a ‘family-drama’ titled Mr Marumakan, had a supposed comic scene in which the protagonist, played by Dileep, hires a conman to rape a woman. What is creepier than the film’s sense of humour is the fact that the censor board has passed the film with a U certificate. To the girl who looks bewildered and terrified, George announces that her ‘ugly’ parents’ have, after all, “manufactured” an ”interesting product”. In one instance, the men barge into the bedroom of a girl they haven’t even met before, after tackling her parents. Jobless and wild as ever, the guys’ favorite pastimes include boozing, stalking women and other things that are generally considered serious crimes. Fast forward to present day, we see the guys who seem to be in their thirties, with no hint of maturity. Their friendship is forged over this common ‘hobby’ of peeping into bathrooms and bedrooms. At first, the guys pass him for a bible geek, which is proven wrong when they catch him peeping into their lady teacher’s bathroom. The film opens to a flashback sequence in which George is introduced to the three guys who would later be his friends. This tasteless line comes as no surprise. When the film’s lead man, George (Dileep) bumps into a girl, Merlin (Rejisha Vijayan) at a funeral ceremony, he stares at her with glee and says aloud, “Shall I make her a mother… to my kids?” And those who brave this ordeal get to watch a slightly better second half which makes some degree of sense.Įvery joke and comical situation in this supposed ‘family entertainer’ is rooted in blatant sleaze. It has a wayward and elongated first half which confidently passes sleaze and sexism for comedy. ![]() Originally published in March, April 2017 on Silverscreen.inĭirector Biju’s Georgettan’s Pooram is a movie that puts you through a test of fire. ![]()
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