After seeing “Masters”, I could say that keeping the inspiration fact aside from his track record, Johny Antony is no doubt one of the top 3 directors of thrillers movies in Malayalam Cinema. And “Masters” proves that again and the movie can be stated as the most impressive work from the director after his last few pale attempts.
“Masters” is a high paced and slickly edited thriller with shocks & more shocks for the viewers at regular intervals. And with each new turn you come forward on the edge of your seat. As I don’t prefer wasting words on giving out the story of the movie in my reviews, I would just like to add that its one of the most tightly written script and you dare don’t go for a popcorn in between the movie or else you will miss a new twist in the story.
All the characters have a well defined role and the casting is just near to perfect too (with only Sandhya as a miscast). Each person in the script has a plan against the other and after the light 20 minutes in the opening, the movie just picks up the speed with a kick start. At times you feel that its going too pacy and there are too much twists and turns in the plot, but still its all enjoyable to a great extent.
The first half has Prithviraj, Shashikumar, Piya Bajpeyi & Ananya as the lead. Prithviraj clearly gives another powerful performance after “Indian Rupee”. Shashi Kumar too performs a tough role in an impressive manner. He can easily add this movie in his career’s Top 3. Piya Bajpeyi looks more ravishing than Ananya, but they both surely give the required “Oomph Impact” to the racy thriller.
At the end of the first half enters Biju Menon as the driver. And from here onwards you start enjoying the movie more with his one liners and thrilling timings. But Sandhya seems to be unfit in her “Kitty-Karmachand” role as an assistant to Biju Menon. Biju Menon is very entertaining eating all kinds of fruits while he was investigating. Jagathi Shreekumar is wasted as he is there only for one scene, but he had to be there since he is the lucky mascot of the director from “CID Moosa” days. While watching “MASTERS”, each time you think that now the whole plan is told, there comes another twist and this continues till the last scene of the movie.
The one thing which can be said as the weakness in the script is that there is no Police involvement shown in the crime. Biju Menon is supposed to be the only official driver looking into the case and he is too involved in the plot. The second half belongs to Biju and Prithvi equally and they both simply excel. The Climax is one of best in the recent times as it is concerned in showing the victory of truth, and shows how the victims win and respect the intelligence of the other.
The songs are quite enjoyable but there is already plagiarism factor involved with “Gopi Sunder” lifting more than one tunes. I think the fast paced instrumental version of “Suhruthu suhruthu” should have been used repeatedly in the background rather than the slow theme music. It would have given more pace to the scenes.
Summing up, this is one of the best works of Johny Antony, and one of the best Thrillers coming out of the Malayalam Film Industry. The only fear I have is that I should not receive any mails in the coming days that the movie is an inspired one. I pray that it should be an original work from the makers as this is indeed a commendable one.
Go for it, the movie can turn you into a fan of thrillers.
Rating : 4 / 5
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