I should stop here and this would be the world's most economic movie review. But i need some practice at this thing .. so i will pen my 500 words about this movie.
Calcutta news is Blessy's fourth movie . I was looking forward to watch this one because Blessy was attempting a thriller (or so i was misinformed) , and i thought it would be interesting to see what his take on the genre would be.
The movie turned out to be nothing like i expected. It can not be put in the thriller genre for sure. There is nothing to keep the viewer guessing . Pretty much most of the plot is revealed in the first half hour and from there its just a long drawn out bore fest.
The movie begins promisingly. A dead body is found near a rail track. Dilip who is a TV journalist recognizes the body as that of a malayalee with whom he had a minor argument few days back. He follows up on the story and meets the dead mans wife. She (played by Meera) is an orphan who has just been brought to calcutta after her marriage. She know next to nothing about her dead husband. Sounds promising doesn't it. A launch pad for a nice thriller with one or two plot twits?
Sadly that's not the case .The questions are all answered pretty early in the movie The husband was no saint.. He was a pimp who wanted to sell Meera to the highest bidder. He got greedy and got whacked by some bad guys . And we have not reached interval yet. From then it becomes sort of like a love story between Dilip and Meera with some psychiatric mumbo jumbo inserted in between in an desperate attempt to hold the viewers attention.
In short Blessy falters here. As i said earlier the movie held a lot promise. A different locale not frequently used by malayalam movie makers and a plot with lot of possibilities. I felt biggest draw back of this movie was that the writer/director did not keep any cards close to the chest. Everything about the plot was revealed early. It would have been so much fun if things were not quite the way it was shown in the beginning. I was hoping/expecting for a plot twist which would make Meera's character the bad guy and indrajeeth a victim.. But instead you get a half baked psychiatric angle which is laughable. Come on Blessy... OCD? Thanks to the brilliant detective serial on TV called "The Monk" lot of people are familiar with Obsessive compulsive disorder.So please do better research. I am sure your teacher would not approve of such amateurish work
