Saturday Night

*** Saturday Night Malayalam Movie Review***

Starring Nivin Pauly , Siju Wilson Saiju Kurup Aju. Verghese in lead role...

Directed by Roshan Andrews

Penned by Naveen Bhaskar...

A comedy movie made with excessive ingredients of artificial comedy and hatred kinda performances...

Plot of the Movie..

The lead characters of the movie are school time friends. Among them Stanley alias Nivin Pauly is a person who always 24/7 thinks of his friends. For him without them life is a hell. One Saturday night an incident happens and how this impact their friendship forms the rest part of the story...

Analysis of the Movie

The beginning of the 1st half was going quite ok, few comic moments, made watchable.

The second half was just dragging, it was giving a feeling to the audience a sugarcane being crushed again and again till its last.

Nivin Pauly comic performance at initial level was laughable but after that it was kinda of hatred giving approach to the audience..

Saiju Kurup , Siju Wilson at many situations, their comic performances were artificial.

Unnecessary casting of Sanya Iyaapan.

Grace Anthony in her limited space had given a notable performance.

Overall, the concept of friendship, its loosing importance in recent times was actually good but the screenplay falls a nose div making a disaster movie at the box office.

Abysmal performance clubbed with childish film making. What a blunder of a movie !!!

I doubt whether the makers themselves have watched the movie before releasing it or not !!!

A mediocre attempt in creating another "Thallumala" style movie. But failed miserably.

It's just unbelievable that someone who starred and portrayed his characters so naturally in "Premam" and "Action hero Biju" could act this bad. It's high time that Nivin take good cinematic choices.

The lead character is so artificial that we won't talk in English (Those who watched will understand) for some time. Nivin had Mohanlal to rescue the period drama he did so unpreparedly, but this had no one.

Not sure how someone can even think of making such movie unless they are under the influence of substance. Movie have no convincing story line , nothing close to reality or even fantacy. This is just madness created out illogical thought process.

This movie is a disgrace to well known Malayalam movie industry and those behind the movie need immediate attention to their mental health.

Complete waste of time for those who spend time to enjoy their weekends.

Story, direction , cenematography , screenplay not a single item that can rate one out of 10. If there was a rating zero would have rated zero.

This movie was a waste of time energy and money! Nothing is there in this movie completely an utter flop! Don't waste your time on these kind of movies, in my life never seen such a movie. Sharing my point of view for this movie that's all!

Really a bad script! Over action! Performance was completely down! Nothing good about this!

Just to say you that never waste your time and money by watching such an awkward film...

All faces with overacting and don't know what happened with the director and actors in this movie!

Now a days just for money they are doing something in front of screen!

Really bad guys!!! Sorry to say this never experienced in my life before!

For a movie that revolves around friendship, it's difficult to understand why Stanley, Sunil, Ajith, and Justin remain friends. Ajith and Justin can't stand eachother for personal reasons, Sunil is such an annoying presence in public (and wrecking his friends' lives on several occasions), and Stanley is portrayed as the well-off, quirky problem-solver. Naveen Bhaskar (who has scripted some funny films in the past) gets the notion of contemporary friendship completely wrong, even if his intentions may be silly and harmless. In real life, if you have friends like these guys, it'd be best to stay away from them.

Stanley's quirkiness is the film's trump card, but it's a total swing-and-a-miss. The mental health and de-addiction aspects are treated as mere excuses to build moments and serve as nothing notable. Not only is the script lacklusture, Rosshan Andrrews is the wrong choice for director. Instead of picking apart the fallacies in the script and making the writer freshen up his thoughts, he makes his (usually excellent) cast work around all the nonsense in it. They can only do so much when the characterization itself is patchy and their supposedly unbreakable bond can hardly be felt in the film.

The only things I liked about the film are the following:

• Stanley's portable tape recorder and his gang's "vibing dance"
• A few lines in the second half that guys in their 30s now can relate to
• The realization that friends you make in your childhood/adolescence are the ones you'll always want around more, yet life always takes them away

There's definitely some potential in the plot. Imagine if the friendship had been established well in the first half (with bits and pieces of their adolescent years shown with a younger cast), the "drifting apart" episode was properly fleshed out, and the unlikely reunion of the foursome making sense to aid Stanley heal from his trauma, alongside some healthy realizations. If Naveen Bhaskar gave me the first draft of his script, I think I could've done wonders with it.