SHIKKARI-Could Be Better With Such A Talented Star Cast.(Movie Review By Yoonus Mohyudhin)

If you take a look at the starcast of “Shikkari” then you just cant help expecting a worth seeing movie. With names like Mammootty, Suresh Krishna, Mohan and Innocent coming together, it was lot more expected from the director Abhay Sinha. I have read some reviews from reputed persons, praising the movie to great lengths, but I don’t agree with it as I found it just poor and its nothing path breaking or something great novel in the movie apart from its top rate performances.

The story line moves around a Software professional Abhijit (Mammooty) is Arun when he delves in to the pages of a novel written by Gopinath Shindhe. As Abijit evince interest in knowing more about the past history because the pages in the book are missing.  Now whats new in that, I couldn’t understand. The only difference this time is that the missing connection is novel and not the film (as we have seen in VELLARIPRAVINTE CHANGHATHI). Another addition is that the director tries to add some Shikkari kind of patriotism in the movie by showing that we cant control what destiny has in store for us. But the film lacks the grip in the second half and also has an unexplained and sudden climax. For some viewers it may be a kind of Artistic touch to the movie but I would like to disagree to that thought completely, as I neither found it entertaining or enlightening.

The best part of the movie is Mammootty, who is superb in double role. He plays the patriotic sequences and the serious ones with equal conviction. And the next revelation is Punam Bajve, who also acts this time impressively. 

The worst thing is that the recently famous and talented “Suresh Krishna” of “Kerala Varmma Pazhashi Raja” fame is completely wasted with very few and unimportant scenes. His associate in the movie gets more serius lines than him and suresh krishna surely deserved a better role. He  serve as harmless appendages; nothing more, nothing less.

Mohan and Innocent are fine as always but Tiny Tom does an excellent job . The background music and few songs are just ok. The film is not a historical as shown in the promos on air, so that is another drawback in the movie.

In all a lot more was expected from this team after their earlier ventures. The film is a multiplex movie with some artistic touches to it, but finding viewers even there, will be a tough task in the coming days.

Ratings : 1 / 5