Mannar Mathai Speaking 2
The Mannar Mathai trio is back and this time they are running a travel agency. But their spirit of drama art is still there within them and is getting ready with a new one. A set of new problems still awaits them and how they face and overcome is the rest.
First of all lets put the prequels apart.Here the characters are less focuses, and quiet forced. Still the trio Mukesh-Innocent-Saikumar does their jobs decently. There are few scenes where Innocent’s charterer goes overboard but doesn’t irritate much. Aparna of ABCD does quiet an important role but she doesn’t have the grace which she showed in her debut flick (same as Bicycle thieves). Bijumenon and Vijaraghavan are the surprise packages in this and former steals the show in second half. There are few original characters like Janardhanan, Indhrans getting places in this just for the sake of that.
There’s not much story in the movie and the director just uses the characters and comedy to take the movie forward. The plot involving a diamond or something is what we have seen in 80′s or 90′s and here too they follows the same. Screenplay doesn’t have any emotional depth or complexity which it should have. But there are few doses of comedy which makes the movie passable to an extent. But the last 20 minutes or so is terrible where the director tries to wind up the show with the kind of slapstick comic. He also tries to put some sentiments to Mukesh’s character which doesn’t make any impact rather than bringing the graph down. In short the director puts less efforts and relies more on the characters.
Cinematography of the movie is good with a kind of dark shade all over. Music by Rahul Raj is pretty average and so does the background music. Editing is decent but last few portions should have been trimmed.
First of all, if you take the sequel tag quiet seriously and expect more from it, you are sure to be disappointed big time. But if you watches the movie keeping in the mind the limitations and the caliber of the makers you could enjoy it partly, to an extent. But the last portions are a test of patience. If at all you ask where the director showed some efforts from his part, is the characters of Biju Menon and Vijayaraghavan.
