Aavesham Movie Review By Baradwaj Rangan | Fahadh Faasil | Jithu Madhavan

GT holidays South India's number one travel brand gooy a vernacular edch brand Skilling everyone everywhere hello and welcome to Galata Plus in this video review episode we're going to be talking about jitu madan's aam the film is a fantastically written combination of comedy and action and drama one week ago had you asked me for my pick for the screenplay of the year so far it would have hands down been Girish ad pru but now after watching the brilliantly done aam it's like a tie like Girish jum mad doesn't seem to be a fan of plot he prefers to put his efforts into his characters and into his writing and aam comes off like an extension of his first film romanum there a few men find themselves unleashing a spirit it was an impulsive act that backfired on them here a few men find themselves unleashing a gangster named ranga and this impulsive act again backfires on them like The Ghost and Roman Jam ranga played by fad fasil is practically an otherworldly character he wears spotless White he has some 10 kilos of gold on his body in the form of rings and chains his black handlebar mustache is complimented by his black aviator glasses he's multilingual speaking Canada and Malayalam and Hindi he's also one of the greatest characters ever written for the screen on the surface there might be this tendency to use the word mass for him because he gets a lot of highlight moments befitting a mass hero that make the theater explode but ranga is more watch him do a towel dance after a bath and then watch him in a fight he doesn't doesn't actually fight like an action choreographer he asks his goons to break this guy's arm and that guy's leg the Magic in the writing of this character is twofold one it keeps us guessing whether this man is a criminal or a cartoon the payoff at the end is huge and two at a subtextual level ranga is a spoof of everything that passes for masculinity in our mainstream movies jitu madavan takes the good-hearted Rowdy Trope and runs with it as though he invented it and Fahad Returns the favor the character may be all surface all that white all that bling and it's entirely possible to enjoy aam without taking it seriously at all but if you dig deep you will find that like all good actors vad takes his cartoon characters seriously and he plays ranga like he would play a dramatic role with thought and total commitment and investment it's a glorious performance a combination of Jim car's rubbery physicality in the mask and the self celebration of masculinity that we saw in fah own shami from kumbalangi kns Fahad plays with ranga's physicality his tonality he balances the exaggerations with the more controlled emotions bahad fasil basically tells all insecure Heroes that you don't have to be in every scene of a movie and yet you can be the most unforgettable part of that movie and how does ranga come into the picture in the story set in bangaluru actually for a long time he's out of the picture aam opens in an engineering College where the life-size model of an aeroplane is kept on display a mother tells her son the son is named BB and played by mitun J Shanker the mother tells him that one day he should build something similar in other words she wants him to SAR but the minute she enrolls BB in a hostel and leaves his life takes a different turn he has two roommates aju played by hipster and shantan played by rashan SAS they antagonize a senior named kti played by midu and they pay the price they are stripped and they beaten up and then suddenly Cy hands them drinks and calls them his Bros the screenplay is filled with tonal changes apparently every Rowdy like person likes to surround themselves with Bros keep this fact in mind because it gets a payoff at the end in the midst of people who stick around only for booze and money these gangsters seek people who will stick around for love for friendship but at the moment auu is in no mood to be a bro the three boys are written well and played very well shanton is the one who is Happy following the path of least resistance BB is written as someone who isn't easy to read his character Arc is a beauty and aju is the alpha male of the group he wants revenge he looks for Rowdy to beat up kie and that is how he and his friends stumble upon ranga and just wait till you see the location of this man's hero introduction scene ranga is at once a celebration of all things Macho and a deconstruction of all things Macho there's a sensational moment where he shows in a stunning top angle shot how every goon in the bar fears him and yet watch that mass hero staple of the slow motion run that's being spoofed here ranga runs in slow motion and you have to see the rest for yourself slowly in trying to befriend ranga auu and BB and shantan are drawn into his Larger than Life life and his violent actions you can sense a subtext about being drawn to machoness and then being repelled by too much machoness but the film is so light on its feet and so bloody fun that you may not think about any of this until much later the jokes keep coming like bullets from a machine gun there's a revolver that won't fire there's a spoof of the mother sentiment so dear to our mainstream Cinema the bit woven around a gra pram is a riot and there's an amazing piece involving a game of Dum shage where Fahad ranga goes from a grinning clown to a scary criminal and back to a grinning clown Sushin Shams wacky score is a perfect accompaniment to the wacky proceedings aam is in no hurry to tell its story and that's why every character every set piece registers so well the action stretches are electric with cinematography by Samir taher and editing by Vi haran you get the sense of watching a massive circus event at Las Vegas and The Cutting is a smoothest silk but also consider the dramatic stretches with other characters who get smaller screen time mansur Ali Khan plays a Rowdy he also plays the archetype for ranga he is who ranga will be in a couple of decades and Ashish vidari as a college Big Shot gets a brilliant bit where he proves that you can exud threats and gangster Vibes even while wearing a suit he owns a gun but his choice of weapon is the English language but after ranga the film's most lovable characters Aman the loyal sidekick played beautifully by sajin gopu the man is built like a mountain and it shows especially when he stands next to Fahad and yet he's like a kid in a candy store every opportunity for a fight brings him great Delight whether he's narrating ranga's real or imagined exploits or taking knife cuts on his back Aman transforms the traditional sidekick character into a violent teddy bear not since mahai and circuit has a Rowdy pair appeared so lovable on the surface aesa may look like a big dub action movie that asks you to leave your brains at the door but actually it is a very smart combination of action and comedy and drama I loved every second of it and I demand a sequel with Aman and ranga that's it about aam if you 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Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 15 2024