Malayalam actor
currently in the
younger brigade
is trying hard to
fill the shoes of Mammootty & Mohanlal is very clear from the kind of work
he has been doing off late. He
has been trying to maintain a
delicate balance between the
more popular or “mass appeal” movies like Thanthonni, Pokiri Raja or Anwar and the more artistic and serious films like Punyam Aham, Thalappavu,
Manjadikuru, Thirakkatha etc. At the same time he has
continued to have releases in
Tamil cinema with movies like Ninaithale Inikkum and Raavanan of late. He even marked his entry into Telugu
Cinema this year with Police Police. With Punyam Aham not really turning out the way it
could have been I had al most
thought Prithviraj has gone back
to focusing more on the popular
films & that’ s when I got an opportunity to watch his
unreleased film ‘ Veettilekulla Vazhi’ at this years edition of Mumbai Film Festival ( MAMI
2010 ).
Dr. Biju the director of Veettilekulla Vazhi (The Way
Home- VV from hereon) is a
homeopath physician turned
filmmaker & has made
interesting films like Saira and Raman earlier. Considering his earlier works and the kind of
actors Dr.Biju had worked with
earlier it was quite a surprise to
me as to how he managed to
draft
Prithvi into the film. I did
get my answer after watching the film. This film was the
opening film in the Indian Frames
section at MAMI and thus most
of the team members associated
with the film turned up for the
premiere of the film including Dr. Biju & Prithviraj. As I watched
the film a lot of question s
popped up in my head about the
film, some of which got answered
before the film ended and some
which still remain unanswered. To start with there is one point I’ d like to stress about VV. For
those who think this is just
another Malayalam film, let me
clarify that this is a true Pan
Indian film. VV starts with a doctor
(Prithviraj) in Delhi attending to
a critically ill patient Rashida
( Lakshmipriya ). Knowing that the doctor is also a malayalee
and for some other unexplained
reason of comfort, Rashida
confides to the doctor that she
is a member of a suicide squad of
the notorious ‘ Indian Jihadi’ group. She also tells him that she
has a 5 year old son and wants
the doctor to trace her son who
is some where holed up in Kerala
and unite him with his father.
The father is revealed to be none other than Abdul Zuban
Tariq, the dreaded leader of
Indian Jehadi. After making the
request to the doctor, Rashida
dies and now the doctor faces
an emotional turmoil and is not sure what he needs to do. We
then find out that the doctor
has had a haunting past behind
him. He lost his wife and five
year old son in a bomb blast in
Delhi a few years ago and is yet to come to terms with the loss
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