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Lokpaal Movie Review
- 2/2/2013 11:25:46 AM
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Cast: Mohanlal, Biju Menon, Indrajith, Kavya Madhavan, K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Direction: Joshiy
Production: Antony Perumbavoor
suspense thrillers, S N Swamy was expected to be a handsome offer for this January. But this thriller movie fails to excite as the material in offer is so much tried and tested, with been-there-seen-that kind of situations that, you lose attention after a point.
Lokpal' has Mohanlal as Nandagopal, with a tainted past , who is currently running a cafe , a hangout for families . But he also is a socially committed fighter of human rights ala 'Kayamkulam Kochunni', who secretly and lonely does some big burglary of huge funds, mostly black money received as bribes by the men walking easily through the corridors of power. Nandagopal masquerades in fancy dresses and uses the best of the techniques to seize the money that is circulating between big names including politicians, businessman and bureaucrats. Add to this single thread is the protagonist's past spent in juvenile home, a lady doctor who was in waiting for him for long and a website and blog that this 'Lokpal' is running to get clues about the wrongdoing around him.
Taking clues from films ranging from 'Four the people', and Kalikkalam, to Shivaji, and Annyan, It's an ordinary screenplay by S NS Swamy relying on the customary masala to make things work, that does the damage. With plenty of pitfalls and much more carelessness and shoddy making,
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