Thamaasha

Thamaasha was brilliant. What more can you expect from this team of producers. This movie is one of the few movies in Mollywood which completely defies star power and cultural biases and deliver a pure and good cinematic moments. Thamaasha is filled with so many great moments which will stay with us even long after leaving theater. Debutant Ashraf Hamza did a very good job with a good script. The story is small but tells important things happening around. Sameer Thahir's cinematography was good as always. The two songs of the movie are also very good. Vinay Forrt did an excellent job as the main lead and so did every other characters. Overall, Thamaasha is a must watch movie which everyone likes. Kudos to Happy Hour Entertainments after another brilliant movie, Sudani From Nigeria.

Sreeni, a bald 31-year-old college faculty, finds it hard to get a girl to love or marry him. All his attempts at finding love always leave him in despair. Will he ever find his match?

The film deals with a subject that isn't the least funny - body shaming. Sreeni's bald head and simple looks have always made an impact on his love life. His problem is solved comically through the first half of the movie. In the second half, you stop laughing and realise the consequences of body shaming someone in a public space.

Thamasha breaks the cliche of the world against body factors such a "being too fat" or "being bald". Unlike in a lot of movies where the actors give long and unrealistic motivational speeches to uplift the movie, Thamaasha manages to say a lot without raising its voice. Its strength comes from its actors, whose quirks and subtle facial expressions do most of the talking. The film also raises questions against the unwanted and mindless body shaming that is happening in the social media on our lives. Director Ashraf, who also wrote the script, has done an excellent job. The way little reactions are at first written funnily and the way the film shifts focus to a serious issue in the second act is really beautiful. Songs by Rex and Shahabaz Aman are also beautiful.

Vinay fort's marvellous performance as Sreenivasan with the thinning hairline and his innocent expressions are the backbone of the film. Chinnu Nair, who comes in the second half of the film, excels as Chinnu. She played the character like a natural. Someone else may have made it over dramatic. Grace Antony, Navas Vallikkunnu and Divyaprabha are all quite touching and effortless that you feel with them.

Compared to many other films in Malayalam that have explored body shaming, Thamaasha drives home its message in a much more loud and clear manner. All in all, it is a one simple, perfect and eye-opening take on body shamming.

This malayalam movie is an official remake of a Kannada film "Ondu Motteya Kathe" It is a story of the existential crisis most of the millennium generation (boys and girls- youth) face of being a STANDARD - Perfect - What happens to those - who are diverse - different - in size shape, age, and many other STANDARD features that are continuously projected and bombarded through all media by 99% of corporates? This is the story of a bald and slightly over-age Srinivasan - who is a faculty in a college. He has not been able to find a partner. He covers up his bald head with a wig toppee. His family and friends try to fix up his alliance with girls - which all end up in rejecting him On the other side there is this fat young girl Chinnu - who is outgoing, smart, outspoken - but she too is not able to find a partner because - she does not fit into the STANDARD brainwashed by society By chance through social media - they are introduced by a matrimonial agency. Both see their photo and find each other quite normal to go ahead and meet each other in a public garden. During the meeting - both face the same societal prejudices of STANDARDS Srini did not expect a fat girl and Chinnu did not expect an elderly man. By accident - a child at the bus stop pulls off Srini's wig and gives it to Chinnu and that is a double blow for Srini - a bit elderly and bald. He runs away embarrassed. . Both Srini and Chinnu ponder on their disastrous meeting. But Chinnu feels guilty and calls Srini to hand over his wig. They meet and while leaving Chinnu's scooty hits a pedestrian and Sriniv takes Chinnu to the hospital. There starts their cute little relationship - they grow close to each other and accept each other as friends. On their first small date - day-out - they visit the Biennale art festival being held in Cochin for the whole day - and Chinnu post their joint photos on social media. At the end of the day - both are very happy. But the next day - the trolls - make fun of the ODD couple - an old man and elephant. Srini is humiliated and laughed at by his student and co-faculty in college, and he gets angry at Chinnu for posting their photos on social media and ends the relationship and prospect of meeting Chinnu every again. But Chinnu is much matured and brave. Instead of removing the photo from social media - she gives back to the trolls by posting a video and replying back to the trolls for shaming them just because they do not fit to SOCIETAL STANDARDS. Seeing this video of Chinnu tens of thousands of people on social media like the couple and their joint photo.. and people come forward to Srini and congratulate him for being brave and having such a wonderful girl in his life. Things are going on fine between Srini and Chinnu. But one day - Chinnu asks Srini to come to a Cancer hospital. Expecting the worst - Srini rushes to the Cancer ward and finds Chinnu cut her hair just like a cancer patient.

Srini breaks down and feels that his life which was coming back on track by finding this wonderful girl - Chinnu. The fate is snatching her again from him. But on going near Chinnu - he realizes that Chinnu just donated her hair for cancer patients. Thus the couple hold hands and walk out of the hospital - smiling. There the movie ends. This is a wonderful movie. Much like the movies Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee used to make in the seventies. Short, sweet simple - relatable story of common people. Vinay Font as Srinivas and Chinnu Chadni as Chinnu has acted excellently. The director Ashraf Hamza did not have much to do - as this movie is just a scene to scene remake of a Kannada movie. Yet all the credit to the Director Ashraf for maintaining the character, theme, flavor and message of the movie intact. The cinematography and music of the movie is also nice. It is a 120 minute movie - without a single dull moment. It is such an eye-opener and feel good movie of accidental LOVE happening between two individuals. I would surely recommend you to watch this movie I will give 7.5 out of 10 stars for this simple marvellous and powerful movie.

A beautiful movie. Can't think of a better line to describe this movie.

A man who's worried about his baldness searching for a suitable women for his life. Would he found? Let's watch it and find it.

Malayalam cinema always give importance to the stories than the star value and so on and this film proves that. This film moves with a slow pace but doesn't bore the audience due to the realistic screenplay as like we see in Malayalam films.

The perfect cast was chosen for this film and each of them did well in their performance.

Vinay was the perfect fit to his character and gave his settled performance for his character.

Mainly, the essence of this story didn't fade away at any point and was so brilliantly worked out. The main story to be shared and it did. Life is not always perfect. A must watch film and a beautiful film from Malayalam cinema.