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For a movie that revolves around friendship, it's difficult to understand why Stanley, Sunil, Ajith, and Justin remain friends. Ajith and Justin can't stand eachother for personal reasons, Sunil is such an annoying presence in public (and wrecking his friends' lives on several occasions), and Stanley is portrayed as the well-off, quirky problem-solver. Naveen Bhaskar (who has scripted some funny films in the past) gets the notion of contemporary friendship completely wrong, even if his intentions may be silly and harmless. In real life, if you have friends like these guys, it'd be best to stay away from them.

Stanley's quirkiness is the film's trump card, but it's a total swing-and-a-miss. The mental health and de-addiction aspects are treated as mere excuses to build moments and serve as nothing notable. Not only is the script lacklusture, Rosshan Andrrews is the wrong choice for director. Instead of picking apart the fallacies in the script and making the writer freshen up his thoughts, he makes his (usually excellent) cast work around all the nonsense in it. They can only do so much when the characterization itself is patchy and their supposedly unbreakable bond can hardly be felt in the film.

The only things I liked about the film are the following:

• Stanley's portable tape recorder and his gang's "vibing dance"
• A few lines in the second half that guys in their 30s now can relate to
• The realization that friends you make in your childhood/adolescence are the ones you'll always want around more, yet life always takes them away

There's definitely some potential in the plot. Imagine if the friendship had been established well in the first half (with bits and pieces of their adolescent years shown with a younger cast), the "drifting apart" episode was properly fleshed out, and the unlikely reunion of the foursome making sense to aid Stanley heal from his trauma, alongside some healthy realizations. If Naveen Bhaskar gave me the first draft of his script, I think I could've done wonders with it.

*** Saturday Night Malayalam Movie Review***

Starring Nivin Pauly , Siju Wilson Saiju Kurup Aju. Verghese in lead role...

Directed by Roshan Andrews

Penned by Naveen Bhaskar...

A comedy movie made with excessive ingredients of artificial comedy and hatred kinda performances...

Plot of the Movie..

The lead characters of the movie are school time friends. Among them Stanley alias Nivin Pauly is a person who always 24/7 thinks of his friends. For him without them life is a hell. One Saturday night an incident happens and how this impact their friendship forms the rest part of the story...

Analysis of the Movie

The beginning of the 1st half was going quite ok, few comic moments, made watchable.

The second half was just dragging, it was giving a feeling to the audience a sugarcane being crushed again and again till its last.

Nivin Pauly comic performance at initial level was laughable but after that it was kinda of hatred giving approach to the audience..

Saiju Kurup , Siju Wilson at many situations, their comic performances were artificial.

Unnecessary casting of Sanya Iyaapan.

Grace Anthony in her limited space had given a notable performance.

Overall, the concept of friendship, its loosing importance in recent times was actually good but the screenplay falls a nose div making a disaster movie at the box office.

I thought I'd seen bad movies. I thought nothing could surprise me anymore. But this movie has shocked me. This is possibly the worst movie ever made in the whole world. I'm sure the makers haven't seen the film. This was just torture. Please do not waste your time or your money. The acting was horrible, there was no story or plot and even though the movie tried to portray friendship it made me want to not have friends. Half the people left the theatre during the interval and never came back. The other half sat through. I applaud these people as I'm sure they're very very strong. If you still decide to watch it God bless you, you poor soul.

This movie was a waste of time energy and money! Nothing is there in this movie completely an utter flop! Don't waste your time on these kind of movies, in my life never seen such a movie. Sharing my point of view for this movie that's all!

Really a bad script! Over action! Performance was completely down! Nothing good about this!

Just to say you that never waste your time and money by watching such an awkward film...

All faces with overacting and don't know what happened with the director and actors in this movie!

Now a days just for money they are doing something in front of screen!

Really bad guys!!! Sorry to say this never experienced in my life before!

One of the worst movies ever seen. It's not the actor's fault. This movie failed to provide any script or story neither in the start, middle or end. The adage 'Aakh se khoon nikla' was apt after watching this.

Please do not watch this for your own sake. One thing I did wrong was, I anticipated the movie would be great because of the lead actor. But that assumption failed as well, this led me to think, there needs to be a stronger review process on scripts before it's been taken up for production!

I might even end up watching 'Thallumala' voluntarily than this. Literally spoiled the night's sleep.

Abysmal performance clubbed with childish film making. What a blunder of a movie !!!

I doubt whether the makers themselves have watched the movie before releasing it or not !!!

A mediocre attempt in creating another "Thallumala" style movie. But failed miserably.

It's just unbelievable that someone who starred and portrayed his characters so naturally in "Premam" and "Action hero Biju" could act this bad. It's high time that Nivin take good cinematic choices.

The lead character is so artificial that we won't talk in English (Those who watched will understand) for some time. Nivin had Mohanlal to rescue the period drama he did so unpreparedly, but this had no one.

Pathetic acting, bad scripts, bad screenplay very poor performance.

Direction , editing g and all is very bad These hero's will do anything for money.. Couldn't believe this movie is directed by Roshan Andrews who has made so many good movies.. It's a experiment which failed miserably.

Can't believe nitin pauly and all signed this movie.. Saiju Kurup, saniayyapan, Grace Anthony and all are great actors really surprised how they signed this movie Looks like they didn't read the script This movie will go in the category of worst malayalam movies Don't waste ur time therr are really good movies to watch in malayalam.

This movie is a disaster. A story with no sense whatsoever. Most of the dialogue makes the audience uncomfortable. Nobody understands why these actors are there or really they are in a circus These movie makers start thinking that if they have some famous actors in hand, anything will be a movie. No logical story. No comedy. This movie makes you start hating Malayalam movies. Don't waste your time and money for this one. Really surprising that actors such as Nevin Pauley accepted this idiotic script. Highly unlikely that someone will watch the whole movie unless they are watching in a theatre. Hopefully, the producers will realize why they lost money on this movie.

First time thought as some weirdo cringe movie.... Was too boring.. turned off the movie and Second day was too curious to know what happens next continued watching the movie, exactly watched on Saturday night with a Beer, i just started to love it to core... Nothing is permanent in life, life is not to run behind targets...

chill have fun make memories.... This was the simple logic of the movie....

A different shade of Charlie, neat and clean movie , movie lacks basic logic, however it's fun to watch it, made by day , no abusive or sexy scenes found in the movie, Can watch it with whole family.

Not sure how someone can even think of making such movie unless they are under the influence of substance. Movie have no convincing story line , nothing close to reality or even fantacy. This is just madness created out illogical thought process.

This movie is a disgrace to well known Malayalam movie industry and those behind the movie need immediate attention to their mental health.

Complete waste of time for those who spend time to enjoy their weekends.

Story, direction , cenematography , screenplay not a single item that can rate one out of 10. If there was a rating zero would have rated zero.

Nivin Pauly & Rosshan Andrews name pulled us to watch the movie. But turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments. Jokes make you angry, not laugh. Most of the time we don't even understand why certain situations are shown. All the scenes are just repetitions of what we have seen in earlier movies. But they were presented better. Beauty of Mysore City is also missing in the visuals.

Wouldn't like to stop a movie midway but had to stop in 30 min.

All previous Rosshan Andrews movies, hit or miss, had a minimum class. Although I didn't like the ending of Salute, it was good till then. This time with his own story, he failed miserably.

Kirukkanum (thats us for braving to watch this movie) and Koottukaarum (characters in the movie).

What a waste of time. I cant think one sequence or scene that was worth the effort of shooting it. Not a single one. Everything was so artificial. Even the acting.

Nivin Pauly - oh my god - your choice of movies these days. Damn, i think you are are overrated as an actor. You probably lucked out, because you were in good hands.

The director. I dont think he directed this movie. If he did, i must really suspect who directed the earlier movies to his name.

Screwed up my life. I became mad watching it. Like many people said, i cant rate it ZERO.