Thamaasha

Been in the office too long this weekend? Head to your nearest theater and catch Thamasha ,a fun filled family entertainer which is Written and directed by Ashraf Hamsa. Thamasha is film which we all would love to connect and relate to. It tells us how today's world is obsessed and dots so much on personal looks and get ups and that we really forget who and what we really are.

Thamasha tells us about friendship and how a person tries really to find someone in his life and how he misses his chance each time due to his low self esteem . We all had friends who helped us during our bad times , Thamasha too tells us about how valuable friendship is in our life. It tell us how little things in life matter and not how people see us do. The character of Vinay fort does tells us how he changed his perspective where in one stage of his life he was nervous and too little determined to get things done right because of his low self esteem due to his baldness to a point where he stops caring about how bald he is or how his looks affect his social life. Thamasha shatters stereotyping of the world against body factors such a "being too fat" or "being bald". It tells the audience that none of the above matters and that only what we are inside does.

All in all it is a one simple,perfect and eyeopening take on body shamming.

The whole film revolved around the performance of Vinay Fort which I must say is his career best, and also the brilliant concept of the film. All in all you are in for a fun filled family entertainer . Personal Rating: 4.6/5

"Cheers to more such good films".

Simply told excellent feel good movie. I wish there would more movies like Thamsaha coming in malayalam

This malayalam movie is an official remake of a Kannada film "Ondu Motteya Kathe" It is a story of the existential crisis most of the millennium generation (boys and girls- youth) face of being a STANDARD - Perfect - What happens to those - who are diverse - different - in size shape, age, and many other STANDARD features that are continuously projected and bombarded through all media by 99% of corporates? This is the story of a bald and slightly over-age Srinivasan - who is a faculty in a college. He has not been able to find a partner. He covers up his bald head with a wig toppee. His family and friends try to fix up his alliance with girls - which all end up in rejecting him On the other side there is this fat young girl Chinnu - who is outgoing, smart, outspoken - but she too is not able to find a partner because - she does not fit into the STANDARD brainwashed by society By chance through social media - they are introduced by a matrimonial agency. Both see their photo and find each other quite normal to go ahead and meet each other in a public garden. During the meeting - both face the same societal prejudices of STANDARDS Srini did not expect a fat girl and Chinnu did not expect an elderly man. By accident - a child at the bus stop pulls off Srini's wig and gives it to Chinnu and that is a double blow for Srini - a bit elderly and bald. He runs away embarrassed. . Both Srini and Chinnu ponder on their disastrous meeting. But Chinnu feels guilty and calls Srini to hand over his wig. They meet and while leaving Chinnu's scooty hits a pedestrian and Sriniv takes Chinnu to the hospital. There starts their cute little relationship - they grow close to each other and accept each other as friends. On their first small date - day-out - they visit the Biennale art festival being held in Cochin for the whole day - and Chinnu post their joint photos on social media. At the end of the day - both are very happy. But the next day - the trolls - make fun of the ODD couple - an old man and elephant. Srini is humiliated and laughed at by his student and co-faculty in college, and he gets angry at Chinnu for posting their photos on social media and ends the relationship and prospect of meeting Chinnu every again. But Chinnu is much matured and brave. Instead of removing the photo from social media - she gives back to the trolls by posting a video and replying back to the trolls for shaming them just because they do not fit to SOCIETAL STANDARDS. Seeing this video of Chinnu tens of thousands of people on social media like the couple and their joint photo.. and people come forward to Srini and congratulate him for being brave and having such a wonderful girl in his life. Things are going on fine between Srini and Chinnu. But one day - Chinnu asks Srini to come to a Cancer hospital. Expecting the worst - Srini rushes to the Cancer ward and finds Chinnu cut her hair just like a cancer patient.

Srini breaks down and feels that his life which was coming back on track by finding this wonderful girl - Chinnu. The fate is snatching her again from him. But on going near Chinnu - he realizes that Chinnu just donated her hair for cancer patients. Thus the couple hold hands and walk out of the hospital - smiling. There the movie ends. This is a wonderful movie. Much like the movies Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee used to make in the seventies. Short, sweet simple - relatable story of common people. Vinay Font as Srinivas and Chinnu Chadni as Chinnu has acted excellently. The director Ashraf Hamza did not have much to do - as this movie is just a scene to scene remake of a Kannada movie. Yet all the credit to the Director Ashraf for maintaining the character, theme, flavor and message of the movie intact. The cinematography and music of the movie is also nice. It is a 120 minute movie - without a single dull moment. It is such an eye-opener and feel good movie of accidental LOVE happening between two individuals. I would surely recommend you to watch this movie I will give 7.5 out of 10 stars for this simple marvellous and powerful movie.

Being a psychologist I found the theme of this movie quite fascinating. The protagonist being the average guy most of us can really relate to his experiences. Amazing songs and beautiful visuals. Experienced craftsmanship at every level of production. Definitely brings out very definite aesthetic value.

A man who's worried about his baldness searching for a suitable women for his life. Would he found? Let's watch it and find it.

Malayalam cinema always give importance to the stories than the star value and so on and this film proves that. This film moves with a slow pace but doesn't bore the audience due to the realistic screenplay as like we see in Malayalam films.

The perfect cast was chosen for this film and each of them did well in their performance.

Vinay was the perfect fit to his character and gave his settled performance for his character.

Mainly, the essence of this story didn't fade away at any point and was so brilliantly worked out. The main story to be shared and it did. Life is not always perfect. A must watch film and a beautiful film from Malayalam cinema.