CIA: Love Can Make You Cross Borders!
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Reviewer’s Thumb Mark
Satyajit
Ray once said – “The director is the only person who knows what the film is
about”.
If
I take a cue from his quote I doubt whether Amal Neerad himself did know what the film he is making
about here in this case of ‘Comrade in America (CIA). The name and some of the
early trailers which were released are misleading. It makes one feel that it has
something to do with revolution and the erstwhile communist leaders like Che Guevara.
Rather the film CIA reduces these communist leaders like Lenin, Karl Marx and
Che Guevara into caricatures and put them into funny scenes which has nothing
to do with its ideology and history.
CIA
is about a young man called Aji Mathew aka Ajipan from Pala who has left
leanings and is a staunch student leader of his town. Aji Mathew is a hero in
his college and among his friends as he is found being approached by students
to settle scores and solve issues. Ajipan and his father are at loggerheads
politically but have an untold understanding and liking for each other which
goes beyond their political squabbles. Comrade Aji Mathew falls in love with a
US returned girl Sarah who leaves him and goes back to US under family
pressure. The rest is Comrade Ajipan’s adventurous travel to the US to find his
love.
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The
story begins with a scene where DYFI (Democartic Youth Federation of India) a
youth wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) leading an agitation
against the finance minister for reasons known only to Amal Neerad the Director
and Shibin Francis the Script Writer. Amal Neerad and Shibin Francis fails to develop
completely any of the characters they parade on screen and ends up delivering
an under cooked film which is laughable and trashy.
CIA
claims to dedicate this film to millions of migrants in the world and does a
veiled attack on US President Trump’s proposed border wall that would
eventually stop animals and people that have migrated for centuries across the
US’s southern border with Mexico. Is it a formula cleverly devised by the
current filmmakers to piggyback some current social and political issues which they
superficially and with least sincerity turn into stories with the false hope of
making it into a runaway success? The very recent movie ‘The Great Father’ of
Mammooty was a highly irresponsible and insensitive movie made on child abuse
and rape. These movies ridicule and reduce sensitive and socially relevant
issues by superficial treatments and less researched story telling. Raveena
Tandon’s ‘Maatr’ is another movie that is inspired by the Nirbhaya case that
tries to piggy ride a burning issue and reduces it into heroism with some absurd
and unrealistic scenes.
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It’s
high time that the current lot of filmmakers become more sensitive and responsible
in at least picking up social issues when they decide to make them into films.
Having
said this there are movies like ‘Takeoff’ which made a tremendous impact on the
viewers by portraying the political issue of addressing the ordeal of Indian
nurses in Tikrit in Iraq and their rescue from there to India. This directorial
debut of editor turned filmmaker Mahesh Narayan received all round appreciation
for its sensible handling of the incident.
In
short, Dulquer fans can throng the theatres to watch their hero perform with utmost
ease but unfortunately in a nonsensical movie. The girls Karthika Muraldharan and Priyanka Nair in
the movie have nothing to do and are neither good nor memorable. Siddique as
Dulquer’s father steal the show by his act and that is the only relief in the
movie. Comrade Lenin, Karl Marx and Che Guevara might be planning to make a comeback
to avenge this political disaster of theirs in CIA (Pun Intended).
Life Connoisseur Movie Rating: 2 /5
Cast: Dulquer
Salman, Karthika Muralidharan, Priyanka Nair, Chandini Sreedharan, Soubin
Shahir, Jinu Joseph, Dileesh Pothan, John Vijay, Vishnu Gopal Nair, Nandamuri
Balakrishna
Genre: Rom
Com
Director:
Amal Neerad
Producer:
Ajmal Khalid
Written by:
Shibin Francis
Music by:
Gopi Sunder
Cinematography:
Renadive
Edited by:
Praveen Prabhakar
Production Company:
Amal Neerad Productions
Distributor:
A & A Release
Release Date:
5th May, 2017
Duration:
135 Minutes
Language:
Malayalam
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