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Monday, January 14, 2013

movie review trivandrum lodge

warning : Adults only and some spoilers





I want to fornicate with abandon  ... A young divorcee is telling to her married friend on her aspirations after her divorce .  I checked the movie again .  Oh God , its a mainstream movie not a soft porn movie .  And pretty successful too in the theatres .

And if you thought that was the only "adults only " dialogue in the movie trivandrum lodge you are mistaken . Its just the beginning .  The movie is allegedly centred around a delapidated lodge called trivandrum lodge situated in kochi  . It shows the life of the characters staying there(played by Jayasurya , Sukumari , Janardanan etc) and the life of its owner (Anoop Menon )  and his only child .

Soon to add further life into the movie our young divorcee also lands .  I have hardly ever seen "malayalam" movies where the sex life of characters is openly discussed .  And just like the film beautiful  this movie also i feel is a punch aimed at the double standards of contemperory soceity . When the kid of the lodge owner is caught in school with a porn magazine and all classteacher is vehemently asking the principal to expel him , Anoop Menon quietly tells two things ..

Can you please show me the evidence  .... There is a commotion and the magazine is missing . Suddenly it is found sticking out from the classteachers pocket  .  The vanguards who are protecting the morality of the soceity is seen as the truly immoral ones .

Next the boys father explains to the principal that his son whom he is very close to tells him everything and he has no need to smuggle a black and white porn magazine that too in tamil to school when its freely available on the internet . Further scenes show the closeness the father -son shares especially since the boy has lost his mother .

                                                     Inspite of the very good acting by Jayasurya and a satire on the false morality of contemporary kerala soceity i wouldnt say the film is a must watch because the direction is average according to me  . It could have been taken much better . So if you want to see how smaller actors like Jayasurya and Tasneen Khan can act really well given a challenging role see the movie  . If you like how new age cinema is laying bare the hypocricies in soceity  (movies  Diamond necklace , beautiful etc )  see the movie . For the average movie goer  i would not recommend the movie  .



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