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Ith pakka promo anu. Situational promo

 

ബീഫും ചാരായവും സൂപ്പറാണ്

 

Kidu Scene

 

Ho

 

tovino kidu aanallooo...

 

Yaa tovino super aayi cheythu.. Ota shotaanu.. Nalla comedy timing..

 

What inspired me to say Malayalam movie Godha is better than Sultan and Dangal ? Read on...

There has been a spurt of sports based films ever since Priyanka Chopra reaped success surrogating for the Boxing legend Mary Kom. There were sports movies before that but were mostly half baked, except for SRK's best work Chak De India. Purely sports based films seldom succeed. We Indians need drama, songs, melodrama and beautiful girls. Sultan gave us all that and Dangal went a step ahead. But there is one quality that sets Godha apart and that is there are no Superstars. It's a sports movie of the ordinary mortals, by the ordinary mortals and for the ordinary mortals and it works.

What works for Godha ? Before I enumerate that, let me add a spoiler. There is huge mistake committed by the team. Director Basil Joseph and his team has put in enormous hard work and research into the movie but missed out on a very simple issue. The lead girl is named Aditi Singh in the movie. A Sikh girl or Sikhni is called Kaur and hence the name should have been Aditi Kaur. Leaving behind this gaffe, let's move on to what works for the movie.

Aju Varghese, Dharmajan and a host of character artists, playing a part of a not so young, yet aspiring bunch of Cricketers with their own team in a land of haloed wrestlers works big time. Basil Joseph, who made the frequently funny Kunjiramayanam infuses earthy and situational humor of the Sreenivasan variety and it keeps the movie racing. 120 minutes doesn't look long at all.

Tovino Thomas, the Facebook mouthpiece of the Leftist youth brigade works hard, works smart and works really well. As a misguided and confused youth and as a lacking in confidence lover, he's excelled in his role. He doesn't flounder when the time arrives for flexing his muscles and emotional repertoire. This is easily Tovino's best movie to date.

How high can a girl dream ? Aditi asks Das and though she doesn't get an answer from him, she finds her own answer. Unlike the delicate model looking Anushka in Sultan and the Dangal girls, Wamiqa Gabbi looks, acts, grips, punches and smashes a performance of a lifetime as the Punjabi wrestler who aspires big. She walks into the hearts of the Villagers and scores a knockout victory over the audience. I don't see anyone not falling in love with the cat eyed Punjabi wrestler who carries Godha on her broad, able shoulders. One of a kind performance.

The casting team of Godha works and does so with extreme precision. Parvathi as Anjaneya Das's mother, a sweet little expressive girl as his kid sister steal several moments in the movie and own them. The comedy team and Sreejith Ravi as Vijayettan could not have been any better. Harish Peradi, Mamu Koya and a host of villagers excel thanks to perfect casting. But the mother of all casting was the role of Father.

Renji Panicker as Captain, the father of Das and Guru of Aditi is the life of the movie. If Wamiqa provides the soul and Tovino is the body, Renji Panicker is the life. What an actor and what a performance. The director's idea to show the Captain celebrating the success of his pupil in a silhouette with his son watching it is a masterstroke in movie making. This is simply the finest on screen impersonation of a wrestler I have ever seen and would stay with me forever.

If Dangal was a dramatised version of a real life incident, Godha is a realistic narration of a writer's imagination and his story. Rakesh Mantodi spins a wrestling story with nonstop punches of comedy thrown in throughout the 2 hours of running time. The petty village politics, the generational clash between the Pehelwans and the Cricket crazy youth, the terror created by the frustration of an ageing Captain and his group of friends who revere Gatta Gusti (A local form of wrestling) and even the food preferences of the vegetarian Aditi create enough situational humor to keep us laughing. The Gau Rakshaks and Beef fry make special appearances in Punjab to tickle the funny bones as well as the taste buds of those who care. The comedy laced narration of a serious story of wrestling works overtime.

The technical departments, the lighting, arts and camera work with amazing finesse and the music and BGM add just the right amount of required pep. The wrestling scenes are picturized with honesty and authenticity. Both Tovino and Wamiqa exude the wrestler's body language and Captain is personification of an old world wrestler.

But what works best for Godha is the humor laced story translated into 2 hours of sheer pleasure by Director Basil Joseph. With a budget far too smaller than Salman or Aamir's individual remuneration, Godha gives us a wholesome movie firmly rooted in the Malayalam culture and the true broadminded nature of the average Malayalees who own the endearing Punjabi wrestler as their own. People may differ with my opinion but I am emphatic in my declaration that Godha is better than Sultan and Dangal and Wamiqa Gabbi steals the show. Basil Joseph and Team Godha, take a bow, you have winner. A young boy with pots of money and the zeal to produce movies summed it up for me, "If I have to produce a movie, it will be with this Director."

My Opinion: Best Sports movie by a young team with a dream. Go for it (4.5 / 5)

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