Alamaara

Alamaara sounds a lot better at a conceptual level. But it's John Manthrickal's writing which make it a very average movie. Arun(Sunny Wayne) and Swathi(Adithi Ravi) has no personality in this movie. Arun has majority of dialogues but there's nothing which defines him as a person. Sunny Wayne is a good actor but his performance looked terrible. Especially when he gets angry. Adithi Ravi's acting looked decent but she has almost nothing to do in this movie. She doesn't even have much lines. Most of the characters are stereotypes. The married couples reminds me of the couple we get to see in Indian TV serials. Manipulative wives and innocent husbands. Husbands doing household works are treated as a joke at several instances. Most of the jokes falls flat and it felt like they were trying too hard. Like the phone call with the photographer. It had no purpose and it wasn't even funny. The villian's characterization was so inconsistent. It worked in Aadu but here it fails terribly. The characters had no reason to act the way they were acting. Despite all these flaws, it somehow manages to be watchable. Just once.