Vikadakumaran

A comical rip-off of Subhash Kapoor's hugely appealing 2013 courtroom drama 'Jolly LLB', Vikadakumaran hopes to bring comedy inside the courtroom but falls flat because of its crooked proceedings. For an average viewer, this comedy drama is as confusing as an advanced trigonometry problem, because the writer tries to put in multiple angles/twists just to look intelligent. Vishnu Unnikrishnan plays an aspiring advocate who wants to make it big in criminal law. So when a heinous crime is committed by an egoistic character (Jinu Joseph), he takes the opportunity and uses his twisted mind to make things right. The plot is straight out of the 2013 Bollywood film with some minor changes, and for someone who has watched the original, watching Vikadakumaran is totally unappealing. Save for the few laughs that Dharmajan Bolgatty, Raffi, and Unnikrishnan deliver and Joseph giving the best performance in the film, there is not much to talk about here. There are a lot of unnecessary characters (one played by Baiju, for instance) involved here which tells me that director Boban Samuel depended on them rather than a logical plot to make his viewers laugh. With a predictable ending which is simply hyperbole, Vikadakumaran ends like a fairytale. It's one of those films that you can catch with your drunk friends on a Saturday night, but then when things get serious, you switch it off. TN.