Sakhavu

A lifeless cringe filled political movie. Nivin Pauly did his job well and he should choose his projects wiser. The movie offers cheap thrills for students and budding activists who are on their way of ruining their lives and many others by carrying the red flag. One could watch this just for the performance of the fine actors.

The film is intended to spread the message of Communism is an entertaining and easy to follow manner. The songs in the movie especially the intro is heart touching. Some people here does not seem to like it just because "Communism" is expressed in the movie. This is just plain old bais and hatred towards the ideology they stand for. The movie is actually great and does justice to the audience.

Expectations were huge for this comrade to come and hit on big screen.But the question whether these expectations were fullifilled remains on tenter hooks. Nivin paulys latest release Saghav runs for almost 2 and a half hours and was expected to deliver a puissant message to all the so- called comrades out there.The intention of the award winning director sidharth shiva was good but it runs along a predictable and a long story line.

Positives: 1. Nivin paulys performance 2. Good camera work made the audience feel the vibe of all the shots especially when the history of main character is shown. 3. Good background music 4. A puissant and relevant message for all new generation comrades Negatives: 1.Predictable story line which was stretched creating a tiresome experience to the audience. 2.Some unnecessary jokes which terrible failed to make people laugh also. 3.Some heroic moments which was strictly meant for Nivin pauly fans. 4.Although the message was good there lacked a good medium or story line to serve it to the audience.

Overall Saghav is a break from Nivin paulys repertoire but the story line could have been much better and engaging.

This film is about some incidents occur in the life of an comrade who is old now. Story is portrayed as a young man who has accidentally seen the comrade and inquiring his story. The movie is complete failure as an entertainer excepts some random performances and finishing scenes. Movie portraits scenes from the past of comrade and scenes of present through narrator.

The movie is an entertainer. And that also is partially the problem of this movie. The introductory scenes briefly show various history of the Communist party and also that in Kerala so we are almost led to believe this movie would be a tribute to the ideology the party stands for. But the main character Sakhavu Krishnan who is a communist leader occasionally indulges in fights to teach those who err a lesson, and we wonder if that is what the party really stood for. I felt those cinematic fights mocked whatever serious history the movie showed about the party in the early scenes.

Nivin Pauly gives an excellent double performance as the Sakhavu Krishnan of the 70's and also the present day Krishna Kumar but as Sakhavu, he was especially commendable with both the physical appearance and the mannerisms. Aishwarya Rajesh gives very good support as a sincere party worker Janaki who also later becomes the Sakhavu's wife. Actors like Sreenivasan and Aparna Gopinath make good guest appearances. Nishanth Sagar was wonderful in a brief villain role, his performance has truly evolved over the years.

Most of the best scenes in the movie are the flashback scenes that involve the Sakhavu. The 70's or the 60's look(be it the costumes or how the people lived) shown in the movie are done quite realistically and another impressive factor is the music score too. The cons like I mentioned earlier are the fight scenes in the story which rob some of the shine from this movie, they weren't necessary. And I felt a final confrontation scene between two characters could have also been finished better.

Anyway, it's a watchable entertainer with family and friends and miles better than The Great Father.