Praise The Lord,
starring Mammootty, is the cinematic adaptation of Paul Zacharia's novella
which bears the same name. The movie though may not please everyone to the
full, still carries the feel of the novella and can be termed as an enjoyable
family entertainer.
Story Line
The movie revolves
around Joy (Mammooty), a planter hailing from Kottayam district who looks after
his land and properties. Joy is married to Ancy (Reenu Mathews) and have two
children. Joy is a simple, easy-going village man and has no much knowledge
about the hectic metro life. Joy and Ancy share a deep bond of love which Joy
tries to express even in public.
One day Advocate Sunny
(Mukesh), childhood friend of Joy, asks his help to hide Samkutty (Ahmed
Siddique) and Aani (Akanksha Puri) in his house. Being pressured much by Sunny,
Joy agrees to hide them. Samkutty, a firm believer in God, and Aani, a modern age
spoiled girl who wishes to have an unmarried adventurous family life, fell in
love with each other at a retreat center in Delhi, and later when their love
life is threatened by Samkutty's father Kunjutty (Joy Mathew), they had to flee
from there. Rest of the story deals with the struggle of Joy and others to hide
the lovers and help them to live together.
Performance Analysis
80 % of the movie is covered by the character of Joy
portrayed by Mammootty. His mannerisms, dialogues and expressions are just
superb.
Reenu Mathews as Ancy
is good, she have lots of screen space but nothing to do in those much scenes.
Ahmed Siddique as
Samkutty does entertain with his preachy dialect. Aakansha as Aani is just
okay. Rest of the characters including Mukesh, Suresh Krishna, Joy mathew, Noby
(Kulappuram Vakkan), Kalabhavan Shajon (Fr Antony), Indrans (Chacko) have done
justice to their roles.
Technical Analysis
Music by Shaan Rehman
is good. Two songs of the movie, 'Innaleyolam' and 'Sharon Vaniyil' are just hummable.
But BGM of the movie is average.
Cinematography by
Pradeep Nair is no wonder, but has its charm of the beautiful locations of
Kottayam.
Black-Dots
Weakness of converting
such a best story of Paul Zacharia's novel into a screenplay.
Beginning scenes post
interval lacked a grip, but later on went well.
Comedy scenes are not
much good, some of them are copying from some other movies.
Background score was
poor.
The editing was pathetic and it really looked
like those films were the censor board did some cuts.
Hasty ideas were
used for introducing the characters and the change in attitude of characters
towards the conclusion wasn’t explained clearly. The dialogues are partially
cliched.
The movie’s success
relied upon the treatment rather than the fairly predictable climax (the twist
wasn’t a real surprise) and the lack of juice in the making makes the movie an
unimpressive one.
Overall Rating
7/10 , Beginning scenes
post interval lacked a grip, but later on went well. On the whole, Praise The
Lord can be enjoyed well if approached with less expectations