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Sidarth
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Happy Journey Review|
- 2/24/2014 10:33:05 AM
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'Happy Journey' starts off where the recently released '1983' left off, with a child cricket prodigy named Aaron getting selected to the under-15 state cricket team. The boy and his mom Alice (Lena) dream of a spectacular sports career ahead, when an unexpected accident renders the boy blind.
Boban Samuel's new film tracks the boy's journey into his youth, where he matures into a charming youngster (Jayasurya) who skillfully manages things on his own, despite being visually disabled. And he starts telling his story to a fellow passenger (Aparna Gopinath) in a bus bound for Chennai, and she even ends up writing a book on it!
Some themes do manage to capture our attention when it comes to the distinctive milieu that they are set on. As someone asks in the course of the film, how many of us have in fact heard of the Blind Cricket team of the country? Or for that matter how many of us have actually watched these blind sportsmen play?
Not many of us, I'm sure, and even then, 'Happy Journey' turns out to be a yawn of a film. There is only the script that does not have any specific purpose or aim that has to be blamed for the miserable state of affairs that the film finds itself in.
The last half hour of the film, in particular, is insufferable, with the audience literally taken for a ride. So when a song spurts out all on a sudden, only to be followed by yet another in quick succession, you realize that the journey isn't half as happy as it claims to be.
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