THE KING & THE COMMISSIONER

THE KING & THE COMMISSIONER

Dear friends, I will be reviewing this movie in a bit different way. Its because personally I was a Shaji Kailas fan watching his movies in 90s who introduced a new style in presenting each scene giving more prominence to visuals especially closeup shots. He is the only director who inspired all the others in the previous & future league with making style. You may find traces of dialogues of Shaji or Renji movies in this review. Please adjust readers.

Theatre : TVM Kripa

Status : Balcony Full, FC 99%

Showtime & Date : 2.15pm, 23-03-2012

Joseph Alex & Bharath Chandran  -  two powerful characters penned by Renji Panicker and framed by Shaji Kailas in the 90s with THE KING and THE COMMISSIONER, both were superhits. Almost 17 years later Renji Panicker is once again teaming up with Shaji Kailas, both striving for a box office hit. Shaji after a series of flops & Renji after not so impressive Roudram. When both characters together & the team unites, expectations were there to an extent keeping the past few years' record of the lead actors & the technician & the scenarist. What really happened??

ദാ, ഇനിയങ്ങോട്ട് വരുന്നതെല്ലാം കിട്ടിയ അവധി ദിവസം വീട്ടില്‍ അടങ്ങി ഇരിക്കാതെ മൂന്നേകാല്‍ മണിക്കൂര്‍ കൂട്ടിയ ടിക്കറ്റ്‌ നിരക്കില്‍ അതും  റിസേര്‍വ്  ചെയ്തു  ഈ ..........നു തല വെച്ച ഒരു സാധാരണക്കാരന്റെ വേദനയും രോദനവും അമര്ഷവുമായി കണ്ടാല്‍ മതി , കണ്ടേ  പറ്റൂ അങ്ങനെ , ഇനി അങ്ങനെ കാണാന്‍ ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടുള്ളവര്‍ ഇനിയങ്ങോട്ട് , കൃത്യമായി പറഞ്ഞാല്‍ താഴോട്ടു എഴുതിക്കൂട്ടയെതല്ലാം വായിച്ചു ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടണം എന്നില്ല .

Story 

The very same old wine as old as Mount Everest. Why they are not thinking of something else?

Something that may disturb the law and order of the country happens.

Hero enters the scene.

Hero may/may not have some relationship in past with the person who got murdered.

There will be a influential protector for him.

He will receive orders from the top to investigate the same on special interest of that person. 

Next Hero enters.

Heroes starts the great mission to find the villains who are introduced to us as cold blooded villains from scene one.

Fights Dialogues Fights Dialogues

INTERVAL

Again Fights Dialogues Fights Dialogues

Dialogues Dialogues Dialogues Dialogues....Dialogues * X

In between the person who asked to start investigation asks to withdraw that. Then Dialogues Dialogues

Till someone special for the person closer to the investigative team gets shot & killed the same said before post interval happens endlessly.

Once that happens, heroes gets ready for the final round of fireworks

In the end a bomb blast.

Do you have an extra spine to sit & watch this 3.15hr so called  political epic drama? Then this one's for you, Grab your tickets before the movie leaves the cinema halls.

Performances

Mammootty once again plays Joseph Alex, this time except the first few minutes in intro scene, Joseph Alex seems to be tired. Though delivers dialogues at every junction of the movie, the dialogues & the delivery by the actor, both lacks the fire & naturality as in the original. Suresh Gopi for the third time plays Bharath Chandran, this time he is IG though the title mention him as Commissioner. He is the saving grace of the movie at times. Though intro scene was a bad one & the rehash dialogues couldn't create any impact, the dialogues in second half especially the ones with Saikumar are the only positive I can mention about the second half. But we'll never feel like this is the same Bharath Chandran we have seen in previous two flicks. May be because we have seen SureshGopi  playing these 100 times.Still a dull performance with badly written dialogues. Nedumudi Venu as scientist getting murdered was bad with bad English language though he plays the chief of some intelligence department. Devan again as Shankar in THE KING was just ok. Saikumar imitiating NarendraPrasad in Ekalavyan(he is playing disciple of that character) in looks was a poorly written baddie character failed to create any impact. Rajiv Krishna as Pakisthan military officer was good in looks. Janardhanan should be given a Minster rank for playing the role of a minister this much times in movies. Samvrutha was an unwanted character in the movie, so as KPAC Lalitha. KPAC Sudheer, T P Madhavan lots and lots of artists in small roles were there in cameo roles. Jayan was good in looks as main baddie. Sanjana, Vyga lots of female in limted roles were there.

The person who needs a special mention in the movie is serial artist BIJU PAPPAN who played a good cop role in the movie assisting Suresh Gopi, awesome dialogues creating laughs & good action moments, watchout the scene in which he captures a culprit at railway station.

BGM

Rajamani though rehashed the original, it didn't worked to that level it worked in original. At times, BGM was too loud too. A bad work from Rajamani.

Technical

Cinematographer was framing Shaji Kailas's shots. All three didn't do any special work. Watch Chinthamani Kolacase to see how Shaji uses Rajaretnam in an effective way as a cinematographer. Editor was sleeping I think, especially in second half. Some one should have waken him up while editing with a cup of tea to slice the movie to shreds so that the viewers won't yawn or tirelessly wait for the debacle climax to be happened on screen so that they can run out from the halls soon. For this crime atleast I won't spare you. Makeup was bad and different at different parts of the movie

Script & Direction

Renji Panicker is still in 90s I think considerin g the framework of the movie. He should have adopted something new atleast in presenting the scene on script. The intro scene of Joseph Alex was a good one with minimal dialogues and smooth dealing by the character with others. Soon everything became the same old unwantedly boasting, verbal megalomaniac character shouting at the baddies. Remembet still the baddies wait for the heroes to complete. Who told you that using bad words in between the dialogues will work at this 2012 too. When SureshGopi tells that once or twice, people clapped, after that that too was a boring one. WORST SCRIPT BY RENJI. Eventhough Praja was a bad one, now I understood its none other than Mohanlal, his screen presence & master craftsman Joshiy Sir made it watchable, Dubai too had a good set of dialogues. Badly written script altogether. Hope you will come up with something fresh & new next time.

Shaji Kailas, if you dare to make another movie, I think people will hunt you down. ഈ പീപ്പിള്‍ എന്ന് പറയുന്നത് ദാ ഇവനും ഇവനും ഇവനും പിന്നെ ഇവനും ഇവനും തെണ്ടി ഇരന്നപ്പോള്‍ ടിക്കറ്റ്‌ എടുത്തു കൊടുത്ത അവനും അവനും പിന്നെ ദാ ബുക്ക്‌ ചെയ്തു കണ്ട എന്നെപോലുള്ള പാവങ്ങളും ഉണ്ടായാല്‍ You just don't have the right to to react എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞു പോയാല്‍ Please realise its just not because of anger towards you. Its because the love, the respect everything you acquired by making a good set of movies in the past. We still have hopes in you. I won't say that you should change the track. You should change the way  you are conceiving scene. Concentrate on script, leave whatever you had done in the past, don't go after remakes. Think of what new you can do other than keeping the frames of hero introduction scene first.

Verdict : August 15 is a classic, as it won't give give you headache after watching

BO Verdict : Flop after an initial

Many people were keep on asking, when will the movie end as the second half was endlessly going with nothing new in kitty to offer. Simnply scenes to deliver dialogues. Before we had names like Mohanthomas to rmember. As the names of baddies are all hindi names that too spoiled the show

Grab the DVDs of THE COMMISSIONER, THE KING & THALASTHANAM, still these 90s flick works.

B UNNIKRISHNAN could have done a decent job than Renji Panicker here. Atleast he would have made Samvrutha a negative character with some code word like EAGLE, BEEJUM, MUSAFIR, MEERASPA....