Neerali

The movie is all about screening and showing Mohanlal, no storyline, no useful plot, no meaningful events, at most importantly: No message or lesson! I have watched it with the group of Mohanlal fans in Dubai, even few of them have literally slept while watching. If you are or are not a fan of Mohanlal, do NOT spend your money and time by watching this boring joke.

2 hours wasted. Movie is nothing like the name. The story is the silliest ever. The director has no clue what he was doing.

Nadia Moidu should really stop acting. I just couldn't watch the exaggerated acting.

Mohanlal was in pain the whole time like I was. After all these decades he still can't pick a good script.

Anyway the worst movie of the year yet.

After almost 7 months of nothing, Mohanlal is back with a thriller, well sort of. Neerali works in parts. It's a great 'cliff hanging' movie, if you're into that sort of stuff and can make you sleep paralytic within minutes.

Neerali is so bad that 1 hour into the film you will adjust your inner film critic to the quality of the film so that subconsciously you will be satisfied that your money didn't go wasted just like that. Mohanlal was barely 'acting'. He was almost literally in pain throughout the dialogue deliveries and other dull plot devices. Suraj offers some amount of comic as well as 'acting' relief. Nadia Moidu was not even in the 'zone'. Casting was miles off. Young, energetic options were certainly available.

For a film that includes a 10cr + budget for VFX alone, Neerali is a sure disaster. The positives range from appreciable VFX work, great score and brilliant yet small subtleties that give this hard and unimpressive film a chance.

If Mohanlal continues this kind of performance in Odiyan, which is possibly the most hyped film of 2018, it is going to be really hard for fans to cheer for it.

I am so sad and upset watching this movie being a Lalettan fan. The direction is senseless and story is nonsense. How can Lalettan accept such a stupid character where the movie was dragging all 2+ hours. Release of Movie's original DVD in 30 days past theatre release answer the question of how good the movie was.

The effeminate air of the lead actor aside, director Ajoy Varma's Malayalam-language directorial debut will be best known 20 years from now as a failed attempt not at making a film but at fooling its audience that it regards with the lowest of respect. Unlike the director or writer Saju Thomas, I paid attention to details in Neerali and I was put off in the first five minutes itself. For my non-pedantic friends, the turn-off will happen at Mohanlal's character's introductory monologue where he raves about his father's historical war escapades all while suppressing the flying powers of a housefly. That he later ends up in a carrier van with a half-dead man (Suraj Venjaramoodu), hanging by the end of a cliff, putting into actions experiments he saw on Instructables.com as a child, forms the rest of the 130-minute snoozefest. For a film that is marketed as a survival thriller, Neerali never becomes interesting, and often depends on its lead character's boring antics to grasp its audience's attention. With awful, repetitive background score that is supposed to make me bite my lips but instead makes me yawn, director Varma cooks up a film that is inconsequential, massively irritating (also thanks to Nadia Moidu and her ghastly performance), and ultimately an unnecessary addition in the database of Malayalam cinema. Neerali should not have left the editing room because it is so bad that I'm a 100% confident even the makers looked each other in the eye, shrugged, and waited with bated breath at the degree of failure their film would enjoy as the film reel/digital copy left the producers' office that Thursday night. TN.