Movie Name : Christian Brothers
Producer– A.V.Anoop and Maha Subair
Director- Joshiy
Cast- Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Sarath Kumar, Saikumar, Lakshmi
Rai, Kavya Madhavan, Kaniha, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Suresh Krishna etc.
Music– Deepak Dev
Lyrics- Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri
Cinematography– Anil Nair
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues– Udayakrishna- Sibi.K.Thomas
Review by – Unni / www.Kerala9.com
To be frank, ‘Christian Brothers’ is a film that baffles me when I sit down to write the review. To be honest, I am not impressed with the movie. I don’t even feel like seeing it once again; I am one of those who’d love to see some of the old hits of Joshiy again and again. Personally speaking, I won’t give the film as much rating as I am going to.
But when I ask myself as to what else I expected to see, I am baffled. Indeed ‘Christian Brothers’ is almost exactly what I expected it to be- a smaller version of ‘Twenty-20’. It’s basically a film for Mohanlal fans and is scripted in such a manner as to give space to the co-stars too.
Captain Verghese Mappilai (Saikumar) has two sons and two daughters. The elder son Christie (Mohanlal) is in Mumbai, with lots of underworld connection. The younger one (Joji) is abroad; his father had sent him to become trained for priesthood, but now he has fallen in love with a girl named Meenakshi (Kavya Madhavan) and has left the seminary. It’s when Meenakshi, who reaches Kerala and whose father (Devan) is the Home Minister, is kidnapped and a huge amount demanded as ransom that Christie is called in. Christie is now said to be a high-profile police informer and he is brought in to save Meenakshi. He does that, quite easily, but very soon he himself is arrested, on charges of murder. It’s the very daring and upright police officer Joseph Vadakkan (Suresh Gopi) who is up in arms against him. Then enters Andrews (Sarath Kumar) from Mumbai, who has a purpose behind his arrival.
Into this is woven the story of the villainous Kumaran Thampy (Vijayaraghavan) and his equally villainous sons and son-in-law, who are all against Verghese Mappilai and family for some other reasons. It’s action, drama, sentiments all moving on to a predictable climax.
There’s nothing new or great about ‘Christian Brothers’, except perhaps the coming together of Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep and Sarath Kumar. But on the whole it’s a Mohanlal film and all the other characters have been created to prop him up.
Since ‘Christian Brothers’ is almost the thing that I hoped to see, I was not totally disappointed and I am sure that you too won’t be disappointed. It’s what we want it to be or rather what we expect it to be.
Performances
‘Christian Brothers’ is not much about performances; it’s more about the presence of popular stars. Almost all of them, including Mohanlal, have put in OK kind of performances. There is nothing outstanding. The only actor who rises above the ordinary is perhaps Saikumar, who is sort of overshadowed by the presence of so many stars. The actresses however lack importance. The key roles could have been done by anyone, especially the characters played by Dileep and Sarath Kumar and hence it’s evident that these stars have been brought in just to make it a star-studded affair.
Technical aspects
The cinematography, editing and art-work suit the theme and contribute to making the film a ‘big’ thing.
Music
Songs, penned by Kaithapram and set to tune by Deepak Dev are just about OK.
Script
Sibi.K.Thomas and Udayakrishna once again does what they have been doing all these years- namely mixing up things that are very much familiar and oft-repeated and coming up with a blockbuster. They must be appreciated for the effort they have put in to give each of the four key actors due importance.
Direction
Joshiy is very much in control of things, as he usually is. The film is in essence a Joshiy film, but I won’t say that I liked it as I had liked some of his all-time bests.
Overall verdict- Strictly for fans, OK for a one-time watch. Nothing great!
Rating: 2.5/5
christian brother movie i saw very good team work i like it i hop prachiyatten and sent and christian brother is best 2011 again i hop
hi, sameer nair, ur right, the best movie of 2011, exactly i agree with u, better than 20-20.
Uday krishna’s and sibi thomas has done a great job, best writing pair is a gift for malayalam cinema after siddique lal, and rafi mecartin.Mohanlal ,Dilip,Suresh gopi,Vijayaraghavan ,Saikumar,
all well experienced actors nothing more to say about them
A MUST WATCH MOVIE
–EVERY DIALOGUE U WILL BE THRILLED, DONT MISS IT
The best movie i have ever seen………superb movie…..the dialog’s are great…and the action is very gud……….takarppan movie…everyone should see it this is a must watch movie!!!!
One of those worst movies i saw in 2011..
Feel lyk it was made just to show Mohan Lal’s heroism.
Thought this one will have something better than last lalettan’s movies.
Very very disappointing.
The best movie of 2011, even 20-20 is nothing in front of this block buster , superb story, excellent dialogue, and best performance by all the stars, its not only a lal fans movie, this movie is for all malayalis– who need a perfect entertainment, after a long time joshi directed well,the screen play and dialogues is absolutely what an average malayali looking for— must watch movie
i have watched this movie in mumbai with north indian friends, even they are so impressed with the movie(without understanding the language fully)
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