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Naku Penta Naku Taka, A mallu movie having an African title, directed by Vayalar
Madhavan Kutty, Written by Jeyamohan, the Tamil-Malayalam writer who has been
very prolific in churning out scripts for Malayalam films in the recent times.
Critics
The film begins the story interestingly by showing a naive
young girl Shubha (Bhama) who is fooled into marrying someone who is working in
Africa saying that the groom is working in the USA.
Her husband Vinay (Indrajith) is an engineer working in Kenya
for a company based in America. And, this fact is revealed to her only after
she lands in Kenya believing that she and her husband will catch the next
flight to USA after a brief stopover. Next, she witnesses gruesome act of
domestic violence among her Malayali neigbours.
All
these things make us believe that the story will progress to show us the
various pros and cons of marital life. The just married couple consumate their
relationship in a jiffy. And in no time, they are shown to be deeply in
love.
Then
the tale comes when the new bride tries to stop her abusive neighbour(Sudheer
Karamana) from hurting his sweet looking wife( Anusree). From here begins a
spate of murders, abductions, horrific tribal rituals combined with corrupt
cops, deceitful well-wishers and to top it all, a stylish looking hit-man,
Murali Gopy pops up in the second half.
The
story then moves to a situation where our couple has to escape from the country
(bringing the memories of Escape
from Uganda, which was released late last year) by the end of the first
half.
This film turns out to be a disappointment as it does not
break away from the myths and misconception about the place as promised in the
initial stages of the story.
This
film was marketed as a comedy telling the story of a new bride experiencing
shock of living in Africa instead of her dream destination USA. But, the humour
vanishes after the first few minutes when Shubha says that she will return to
India next Sunday (why or how she chooses this day remains a mystery) and
immediately files for a divorce. But everything between the couple becomes okay
the next morning.
This
is the third film written by Jeyamohan releasing in less than a year after Kaanchi and 1
by two having the
same fate of disappointing the viewer and making one wonder, is this the same
person who wrote Ozhimuri?
Performances
The
actors here cannot do anything substantial to lift the lackadaisical script and
direction. Indrajith and Bhama try to be bubbly and vivacious in the initial
phase and tensed and worked up in the latter half as the story changes colour.
Murali
Gopy who appear in the late second half with Kohl lined eyes and exaggerated
mannerisms as a cruel killer .
Naku Penta Naku Taka is an average flick with the excellence of camera and editing.
Rating : 6 / 10
