Category: Malayalam Cinema Today
Language: Malayalam
Director: Prakash V K
Running time: 112 minutes
It's mainly a social issue that hardly spares anyone in this part of the globe and has been sensibly portrayed by means of a meticulous but run-of-the mill frame work. The characters themselves have tales of their own. Yet the script is taut enough to keep itself away from straying into its off-shoots.
Ajay (Asif Ali) is an indecisive and faltering youth who drops out of National Defence Academy (NDA) though becoming a soldier was his childhood dream. His inability to stand the ordeals of life and his ire against injustice happening around him is very clear. But sadly, this has nothing much to do with the rest of the story.
Halfway through, we discover the story galloping into domestic issues and our curiosity is buoyed by sheer queerness of situations. Before long the narrative trots in the direction of a social cause, which relates to almost every common individual. Finally, we find it cantering with its all-out efforts to arrive at a resounding conclusion.
The details of Ajay's stint with NDA are convincingly portrayed, the inspiring quips and the training sessions, included. But the prominence with which this initial stage of Ajay was dealt does little justice to the efforts when we discover where it leads us to, finally. We are quite disappointed to find it only as a backdrop to pin up the characters.
The momentum has been kept alive by creating dicey situations. Sanjay and Bobby who maneuvered the script are quite adept at that. Yet, some of the moments inadvertently evoke certain similar situations of a movie scripted by them long back.
But no doubt we miss the magic the duo had weaved in their previous outings. Kudos to Asif Ali, Prem Prakash and Nedumudi Venu who essayed their roles quite brilliantly. It was Prem Prakash who eclipsed all else in his department. The rest of the cast too tread exactly the path furrowed by the characters and among them Sudheer Karamana and Saiju Kurup stand apart.
What mars the flow is the background score that is terribly jarring. Besides, some of the affected dialogues and dragging court scenes make it more of a factual take and less of a drama. Yet Nirnaayakam is watchable as it debates a system that needs immediate reddressal.