i was waiting for this movie since i saw the trailer i expected a good movie from the young talent Lijo Jose Palliserry. who had a great debut in the previous year
i loved the movie . the movie is far apart from my expectation. i never thought a movie of this kind will not happen in Malayalam.everything is very natural and the best part the director tried to do everything creative no clichéd scenes are not in this movie.. very original duologue's .very original scenes and everything have a naturalism.
every department of the movie is perfect music,cinematography, Back Ground music, acting, sound editing.
the movie contain three story that parallel to each other.
Lijo introduces the protagonists one by one through a road accident scene where incidentally all the characters are involved. The movie then rolls into flashback
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Swarnavel (Indrajith) is a Tamil immigrant His raw love and affection for a fellow worker Marathakam (Parvathy Menon) and his desire to marry her makes him run into a lot of trouble.
Soorya (Rima Kallingal ) is a film actor She has a troubled marriage and has a history of a love relation that had gone sour with a businessman – one Mr. Sony Vadayaattil (Rajeev Pillai)
Jyothilal (Prithviraj) is a good friend of Sony and does all the dirty work for him. When a business deal with Mr. Punnoose goes sour, Sony seeks Jyothilal's help to 'deal' with Punnoose.
Mrs. Punnoose (Swetha Menon). seeks revenge for the death of her husband and she plays with men of power in the city to ensure her husband is avenged.
The story develops centering around the love story of Swarnavel, Sony's quest for getting Soorya back into his life and Mrs. Punnoose 's revenge. The journey is slow at times, but the action and suspense with an unorthodox way of story telling keeps the audience interested.
Lijo is renowned for his different story telling and this too is not one of the 'characteristic' Malayalam Box Office movie. He has dealt with an above average script by keeping the raw bloody feel of the action intact along with the hand held cinematography of Sujith Vasudev. Sujith's work needs to be lauded as he keeps the movie as realistic to the viewer without letting effects take a toll.
the director is a gift to the Malayalam cinema.
City of God's unconventional approach might find divided opinion among the Malayalee audience, though in my opinion, Hollywood fans will appreciate the effort put in to make this movie.
