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Jawan of Vellimala
- 11/19/2012 10:04:27 AM
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Cast: Mammootty, Mamta MohandasDirection: Anoop KannanGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 30 minutes.
Story: The film moves around the life of Gopi and his villagers who are closely attached to a dam in their village.
Movie Review: Anoop Kannan's Jawan of Vellimala is about a soldier named Gopi (Mammootty) who has returned home after injuring his eye in the Kargil war. In his village called Vellimala, he is an object of mockery. His fellow villagers sneer at him for his cowardice. But what puzzles Gopi is the strangeness about his cowardice. He is not afraid of humans but spirits. They constantly haunt him at night and he can sense them closing in on him, hovering around like blurry creatures.
If there is anything fascinating about Jawan of Vellimala, it is this queer nature of Gopi. After a point of time, even this strange association with spirits loses its lure, proving ineffective in every frame by its extravagant use, further worsened by an uninvited song sequence.
The next prominent character in the film is inanimate; a dam the villagers hold dear. Even the characters' lives are linked to the dam. Gopi works as the operator. His father was shot dead while protesting for the dam years ago. There is an executive engineer Varghese (Sreenivasan) whose father, who worked as an engineer, was murdered for reporting irregularities during the construction of dam.
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