Writer: Ajayan Venugopalan
Cast: Jayasurya, Mukesh, Nivin Pauly, Nadia Moidu, Ramya Nambeeshan
Language:Malayalam
The film tells the story of some malayalees living in London. It has broadly four set of stories and respective characters that are connected in some manner. This multiple story angle is getting quite common in Malayalam films but it has been going on in Internationals films for almost two decades. Code Unknown by Michael Haneke is the best one I have seen among these. However Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu is the most famous exponent of multiple story line features.with his first three films following this pattern (Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, together known as Death trilogy).
English is written by Ajayan Venugopalan who is known for his involvement in 'Akkara Kazchakal'. Each of the story line has it own set of naive characters played by Nadia Moidu, Mukesh, Jayasurya and Ramya Nambeesan. These characters are also the weak point of the film as they appear to be very anachronistic and can be considered extinct by the 90s. The story line of Mukesh is the weakest of the lot and could have been totally avoided without any loss. The first half of the film is quite poor but the film redeems itself in second half. However I guessed both the twists from miles off but that is not necessarily a bad thing.
Overall, Shyamaprasad's English is a watchable film with some 'New Generation' elements which is kind of a fad in Malayalam film industry. It is certainly much better than run of the mill shit like 'Ayalum Njanum Thammil'.
Rating: 2.5/5
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