Recently i happened to watch "actor"(unlike other heroes) Mohanlal's classic piece - Vanaprastham. Take my words, you'll not have words to describe the movie ( but still, I can! :P ). I could feel and experience the "real colors" of life through this film. Based on the life of a "kathakkalikaaran" ( a kathakkali artist ), the movie flows through the art, literature, puranas and the contemporary plight of our society. There have been many movies based on this plot, but they somewhere fail to hold the viewers back at their seats. This is the issue where Vanaprastham succeeds. At certain point of time, watching the movie, one would certainly feel "Mohanlal is a phenomenon!".
The dialogues, the shots, the cinematography...what not is good in the movie. But particularly the cinematography is excellent. The way in which various colors are used in the movie is admirable. The angles, the play of shadows, ah they take us to a new world. Coming to the other actors, Suhasini steals every viewer by her smile! Her costumes and the combinations can not go unnoticed.
The reason why I liked the movie is that I could add my own feelings and even dialogues between, as "silence" also plays a very important role in the movie. There is no point in showing a flowing stream and suddenly there is a backdrop saying "see! the water is flowing", as there would be no scope to my imaginations, and so Vanaprastham made into my mind and heart very easily.
Hoping to watch much serious kinda movies like Samskara, Ghatashraddha, Tabarana Kathe, Katha Purushan, Shantam, Pulijanmam, The Terrorist, Garam Hawa.. :)
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