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Raamu
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Charlie Review
- 1/15/2016 10:10:58 PM
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An intense character, a good concept and storyline, talented actors on board, ‘Charlie’ had scope for a great narration. There was everything in the movie that should have made Charlie (played by Dulquer) a cult character. However a larger than life projection of Charlie, an in your face narration style and romanticised camera angles have all jeopardized that possibility. In spite of this, ‘Charlie’ is very much an engaging movie. Unni R’s script and dialogues have helped in holding the movie together intact.
As ‘Charlie’ begins, there is this uneasy feel that the director is painstakingly trying to establish something. The artistic room which Tessa (Parvathy) rents, the very costumes of Tessa and Charlie, all those gimmicks to lend a mystery to Charlie’s aura as an elusive genie are all over the top. For a character who is like the breeze which goes wherever and however it pleases, Charlie has been portrayed as subtly as a raging storm! Though this anomaly persists, the viewers do get the essence of Charlie in the course of narration through those sequences involving Mary (Kalpana), Kala (Aparna Gopinath), the impromptu robbery, the old age home, Nedumudi Venu’s love story etc.
Charlie is very much lovable. He is one of those rare artistes whose presence people miss when absent, who people remembers even if encountered just once in life, who makes a difference to random people. Tessa’s quest to find this enigmatic person is what the movie is all about. Though we are aware of the glitches in the narration at times, the sequences which unfold erase that unease.
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