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Nayakan (2010)
Films with Cochin backdrop & Malayalam audience..
It seems like Malayalam directors bring out their best if the story is based in Cochin. A few movies are Big B, Chotta Mumbai, Best Actor, etc and now Nayakan. Lijo did a marvelous job directing, being his first film. The cast was great too. It seemed very different from the usual Malayalam films. The opening credits looked like the new beginning for Malayalam movies where there credits art looked right off a comic book and the brilliant work from Prashant Pillai with back ground scoring & music. The person who played the dirty cop with his Cochi slang was fun to watch. Siddique proves time & again that given any role there couldn't be anyone who could have done it better. Dhanya Mary can definitely bring out any emotions with her face and the is great talent(like Jagathi says the 'navarasangal'; she is good with that). Thilagan & Jagathi too did a good job. Indrajith was on a league of his own with this movie. If Mammootty is remembered for his role in The King & Mohanlal for his role as Mangalashairee Neelakandan; then this will be one of the movies Indrajith will be remember by the Malayalam audience for years to come. The only minor setback, not that it ruined the movie in any way was that the movie had slight similarities with certain Hollywood movies(and again I'm not taking anything away from this movie or Lijo's direction). I would say Malayalam industry has got itself a Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino style movie maker & Lijo is a director whose movies are definitely to look out for.
Before I Self Destruct (2009)
Amazing for the fact 50 Cent directed it...
There are a few hiccups with editing in the movie. But the way the story went was really good. The fact that he is rapper (with no direction background other than his fellow member's music videos). Most of the dialogues, the conversations in the movie were like the ones we have in our everyday life. The storyline was pretty the same old seek revenge. But you feel for the character when he loses his mom and he gets betrayed. 50 Cents's son (Marquise Jackson) can be seen at he beginning of the barber shop shot. For some reason the sex scene looked similar to the movie Shottas. Fifty can act and direct. In my opinion he needs to work as an assistant director with some good directors so that he would get a better perspective if directing anymore movies. All the best Fifty.