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Amen Movie Review
- 3/23/2013 10:51:32 AM
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Cast: Fahad Fazil, Swathi, Indrajith
Direction: Lijo Jose Pellissery
Production: Fareed Khan
Lijo Jose Pellissery is a director with true conviction. We had seen him sticking to his ideas of ingenious cinema in his first two films, indifferent about the front benchers and their expectations. But here in his third 'Amen', he has paid heed to the popular tastes ably integrating them with the best of the imaginative thinking for a film, truly based on local culture. And what you see on screen is a real 'new age' masterpiece. Though with its share of some 'toilet humour 'and fart wits', which surprisingly gel well and add to the originality of the narratives, 'Amen' is a must watch for all lovers of Mollywood cinema. If you dare to miss it, you are going to miss the best of the creative heights and thoughtful fantasies, Mollywood have ever attempted.
In 'Amen' Lijo endeavours a contrast from his earlier thrillers and takes you to the backwaters of Kumarangari - a land where Church rules supreme with the divine powers of Saint Geevarghese. The senior priest Abraham (Joy Thomas) and his sexton Ousepp(Sunil Sugatha) meets none in the village who dare to challenge the age-old customs. The Geervargheese band troupe, which the church rears was once the prestige of the locales, but now with its players like Estappan (Rajesh Hebbar) having met with untimely death,
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