The Movie 'Charlie' released in 2015 was a blockbuster and trend setter and was one of the highest grossing mallu movie of the year. college kids began copying dulquer's get up and attire just like they admired Nivin Pauly's premam look. But what i learned from the movie is that the films nowadays have no substance and story and still they could make money.
Now coming to the movie dulquer plays a wanderer who lives a bohemian life and is a selfless guy who lives for the smile of others. That is well and good and quite inspiring. He leaves a comic of his story in his apartment and leaves for a long journey. And then a girl 'Parvathy menon' comes out of no where and settles in the apartment left by dulquer and by reading the comic she falls in love with dulquer whom she has never ever seen in her life. This is quite hard to believe and there itself the charm of the movie is lost just like gorgeous heroines in tamil cinema who used to fall madly in love with mega star vijayakanth It looks like Martin Prakkat the director has tried his best to increase the star value of dulquer through this movie while nothing is there in it apart from the melodious songs,amazing locations and cinematography. The movie leaves a lot to be desired after this much hype. It is proof enough that the standard of the movies which are released these days have fallen drastically down. Gone are the days when movies like chitram,godfather,oru vadakkan veera gatha used to make news for their story class and aura.Now people especially college students tend to imitate these get ups where the film is hardly a mediocre affair.
More over the film has swept the state awards and dulquer won the best actor for god knows what. His get up? or for being mammooty's son? while actors like jayasurya (su su sudheevalmeekam) and prithviraj (ennu ninte moideen ) were overlooked . It reminded me how saif alikhan won the national award for Hum Tum for just being Sharmila Tagore's son who was one of a jury. Of course Dulquer is a good actor but he has never been a class act can be compared to abhishek bachan of bollywood. Sorry guys but the mallu audience have to lift their standards
My rating for the movie..... 2/5
