Pullikkaran Staraa

Director Shyam Dhar who debuted with the Prithviraj starrer crime- thriller "7th Day' has come up with a totally different film this time,a simple-feel good movie that's a mixed bag of interesting and lackluster sequences.There is an earnest effort to present an intriguing light-hearted comic-drama,but the final result is just a strictly average film that's saved upto an extent by a dedicated performance from Megastar Mammootty.

The first half of the film is really engaging with an array of light-hearted comic sequences that ensures that the audience isn't bored for any second in the narrative.The backbone of the film is without doubt the enchanting chemistry between Mammootty,Hareesh Perumanna,Innocent and Dileesh Pothen who have come up with noteworthy performances that saves the movie particularly in the second half.

It is with the onset of the second half that Shyam Dhar lost his grip in the narrative with the story getting choked with inconsequential sequences that at times turned unintentionally funny like the totally superfluous accident sequence,a bollywood music- album kind of preachy sequence and two easily avoidable song numbers that does not make any sense whatsoever.The second half was for the most part aimless and no way near the first half as far as entertainment value is concerned .

The screenplay by Ratheesh Ravi doesn't care much to make the narrative convincing and instead take interest in inclusion of an array of feel-good sequences that does entertain in bits and parts but isn't really engaging when counted as a movie altogether.There is abundance of double meaning dialogues which could have been reduced for suiting the sensibilities of kids and family audience.The romantic track in the movie was handled convincingly.

The highlight of the movie is without doubt a top-notch act by Mammootty who gave a memorable performance as educational trainer Rajakumaran.Deepti Sati and Asha Sharath were good.Hareesh Perumanna was a delight to watch with his witty one-liners.Innocent,Dileesh Pothen etc gave good support.

Songs by M.Jayachandran were good,but didn't make much impact rather than increasing the length of the narrative.The pick among the songs was "Mathalathenalarale rendered beautifully by Vijay Yesudas.The frames by Vinod Ilampally were colorful and a treat for the eyes.Editing part was handled well by Ranjan Abraham.

Overall,Pullikkaran Stara is a passable feel-good entertainer that's worth a watch for a brilliant performance from Megastar Mammootty.

The film revolves around the character of Mammootty;Rajakumaran who is entrusted with a mission for developing the teaching skills in school.So he enters in the socks of teacher trainee.There he meet a girl,Manjima and his old girlfriend Manjari.The film is feel good thought provoking with beautifully added visuals and moments of humour.

The movie is different from usual genre, you would need to see it to understand. There is a message too in there, go for it! Very good performances from actors, a nice light hearted, comedy movie for your lazy sundays.

The pullikkaran (fellow) in Pullikkaran Staraa is a mystical being. He is the definition of an ideal man who blurts out philosophy when there's no need and is popular as a perverted womanizer amongst the people who know him. Played artfully by an unsuspecting Mammootty, the man - a teacher trainer with good looks - continues to do what is known in the real world as servile flattering. He is an average Samaritan without a proper cause, and who is presently being taught the art of courting by a group of sex-craving men. Even if you ignore the misogyny in the plot line like you do it in the real world, Syamdhar's Pullikkaran Staraa continues to disgust you in every other frame, thanks to the subtle yet borderline vulgar references at matrimony, sex, and romantic relationships. There's really no inference or message that one can deduce from this film that primarily has a socially inept 50-something man looking for love. Syamdhar, who impressed us with 7th Day (2014), tries to be socially careful here by adding as many references as he can, but stumbles on the pile. The real problem is not Deepti Sati playing a 20-something, annoying, half-baked character who suddenly starts living with a septuagenarian or Asha Sharath in her stereotype, but what it tells you as a film. Pullikkaran Staraa is a blunder that seems to have been made on a dream the writer had while introspecting about his failure at courting. it shouldn't have existed. TN.