Balyakalasakhi, the end-to-end pure classical love story.
STORY
Balyakalasakhi is a
pure love story revolving around Majeed (Mammootty) and Suhra (Isha Talwar)
which begins from their childhood. The movie begins with Majeed searching a job
in Kolkata. He loses his money and bag on the way, but is helped by Selvi
(Seema Biswas) , who introduces him to Ameen Sahib (Sasikumar). Ameen Sahib
gives Majeed a job in his press. Majeed meets Shabnam (Thanusree Ghosh) ,
daughter of Ameen Sahib and Praful (Preim Sheikh), a rebel and a writer. Rest
of the story deals with the flashback of the love story between Majeed and
Suhra and how and where life takes them.
PERFORMACE-WISE
Mammootty, in his
double role of Majeed and his father is the pick among many. He has enacted the
character of Majeed to near perfection. Isha Talwar as Suhra has improved much
from her earlier films and has come out good. Rest of the cast including Seema
Biswas, Sasikumar, Thanusree Ghosh, Meena (Majeed's mother), Preim Sheikh,
Sunil Sukhada (Avaraan), Kavitha Nair (Suhra's mom), Mamukkoya (Narayana Pilla)
have done full justice to their roles. Also special mention goes to Parambrata
Chatterjee and other young and child artists.
TECH-REVIEW
Cinematography by Hari Nair is near flawless.
He has captured the scenic beauty of the village and the streets of Kolkata
with much brilliance.
Music by the late
legend Raghavan Master and Shahabaz Aman is a treat for music lovers. All
songs, especially Thamarapponkavanathil and Kalam Parakkanu are sure to live
long in the mind of music lovers.
NEGATIVES
For the cinematic
version, Pramod Payyannur have done a lot of compromise, Some of them are worst
scenes.
The first half which
leaves us spellbound doesn't have that charm in the second half.
Though the movie was
said to be for 120 minutes, it has further been cut short. Editing also seems
bit faltered as many sequences have been unexpectedly cut short.
BOXOFFICE
As a kind of classical
movie, it could not expecting to make any worth collection in boxoffice. But
surely as story wise its will become a superhit. But the presence of ‘Drishyam’,
‘1983’, ‘Om Shanti Osana’ will affect badly its BO collection.
BOTTOM-TAG
As classical movie, its
worth to watch and also it is one of the must watch movie from Mammootty
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