One can never really be sure as to how a film like Decent Parties gets to be made. It has to start from some serious blunder that got mistaken as a story idea, with several other slip-ups following suit, all of which would finally evolve into a horrifying shape that would set off the panic alarm in the viewer in no time.
The story of this film is so lame, that attempting to describe it could be even lamer. We are told that Sudheendran (Jagadish) is some videographer who hands over a few lakhs in cash to Rafeeq (Salimkumar) who promises to lead him onto the glitzy world of cinema, as a scriptwriter. Quite expectedly, Rafeeq takes off with the money, and Sudhi roams about until he gets it back. End of story.
There is nothing exciting about the life of this man who gets trapped in the stickiest situations imaginable, on account of a lack of common sense. At least nothing moving enough to be the matter for a film. The script offers no insight into the psyche of this man either, that makes him look like an idiot who has simply lost it in life.
This is why the film fails on so many different levels, that it’s impossible to find out where to start. Sympathy is the last feeling that one would feel for Sudhi who has developed a penchant of sorts to attract trouble. So when he gets pushed around, you would perhaps sigh and move on.
There aren’t even a couple of decent one-liners in this film, forget the jokes that hit rock bottom. The punch lines are downright flat, the action fails to cause any excitement whatsoever, and the characters are wafer thin.
Almost all the contexts and the entire plot are ridiculous and truly preposterous. Most of what happens on screen doesn’t really matter at all. I am unable to recall a single impressive sequence in the entire film, that’s worth a mention in some way or the other.
Cinematography, editing, music, screenplay, art; tiny things as these go for a toss here.
Truly disastrous direction joins hands with an achingly incompetent script to give the cast a hell of a time in putting together several disjointed scraps into an incoherent messy whole.
The funniest thing about it would be that a few stars led by Jagadish actually agreed to star in it. After a bouncy comeback of sorts in Hairhar Nagar – 2, Jadish is back to square one. Decent Parties brings to mind several of those silly tight-budget films that the actor used to star in, back in the 90’s, most of which had disappeared without a trace.
Decent Parties is a royally uninspiring comedy (assuming that it was aspiring to be one) that has literally little reason for existence. It’s a living evidence as to how trying, slothful and pitiable movies can actually be.
Cast & Crew:
Cast: Jagadeesh, Meera Vasudev, Jagathy Sreekumar, Salim Kumar, Vijayaraghavan, Saikumar, Mukesh, Vincent Abraham, Bijukuttan, Narayanankutty, Zeenath, Devi Chandana etc.
Director: Abraham Lincoln
Producer: Vincent Mekunnel
Lyrics: Vayalar Sharath Chandra Varma, Chittoor Gopi
Cinematography: K.G. Jayan
Editing: P.C. Mohanan
Art Direction: Rajesh Kalpathoor
Screenplay: Kaloor Dennis
Story Writer: Suresh Krishna
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3 Responses
Very gud movie. I love it.
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Well said Paul. I totally agree with you. This guy who wrote this review appears to have no concept of what this movie is about. It seems his parents were one of them who refuse to teach their children malayalam because it feels stupid to teach their children their own language. And I’m sure the reviewer saw the whole movie using subtitles, there by loosing the whole essence of the movie.
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
This is by far the most stupid review I have ever seen. This movie was about the struggles and hardships a person had to go through. Debts and struggles are prominent in almost every household in kerala. I’m sorry, but a retard kid like you born with a silver spoon in your mouth will not know the problems of a common man. This is a beautiful story and very inspirational. It teaches you not to trust anybody and try not to get in debt.
Offcourse it is not some new age movie with sex scene and stupid comedy(other than jagadeesh’s assistant who is so darn annoying). This movie is about life. Not something that has some stupid slutty tamilian or telugu actresses who wouldn’t mind doing anything for money. Movies nowadays are just garbage. There are tons of malayalm actors and actresses who are awesome actors, but our producers and directors would rather have tamil and telugu garbage imports to act in malayalam movies. But movies like this don’t do well in kerala because most of our people rather go and see garbage movies with these stupid imports. Wow. !!!
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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