Gopalapuranam Malayalam Movie
Gopala Puranam is easily one of the lamest comedies I have ever come across. Believe me, you should steer clear of it as if your whole life depended on it.
Gopala Krishnan (Ramana) aspires to get filthy rich some day, through hook or by crook. He isn't least pleased with the cows that help his father (Rajan P Dev) run the family and instead joins hands with Vishnu (Mukesh), his brother-in-law who's a smooth smuggler. Things don't go too well and they find themselves face-to-face with the baddie gold merchant on the block, Mathews (Sai Kumar). A few fisticuffs later, Gopala Krishnan realizes that money isn't all good in itself.
Ramana is quite competent at what he does, and suspiciously sounds like Prithvi Raj. He does excel in the poorly composed action sequences and is adept in comedy as well. Mukesh looks a bit embarrassed at the kind of indignity that he has to suffer in the name of a role that lacks both style and substance. Sujibala couldn't have chosen a worse debut vehicle in Malayalam; the rain dance for sure, isn't going to do wonders for her career.
There's very little that works here, except perhaps for Salim Kumar, that ever dependable comedian who could make you laugh out even in total distress. His gags are quite funny and the rare moments that see a smile on your lips are courtesy him.
The latter half is sheer torture because it forces a group of affable actors to ham their way through a series of dense situations that lack any kind of comic tang or creativity. The climax is a howler that assumes monstrous proportions and there are very few who would survive that torment. The idea is pretty clear - beginning, middle and end - the movie is a disgrace from start to finish.
Gopala Puranam is dull, rude and extremely immature and even as such soon runs out of ideas. Poor timing and illogical plot designs as deigned by Shornur Vijayan are compounded by implausibility and irrelevance. And before I forget, there is music by Yunasio, which made me sorely miss those kindergarten jingles.
A sense of direction is probably something mandatory while attempting to direct a film. Devoid of that, Gopala Puranam runs hither and thither and soon collapses out of breath. With only a dash of actual giggles sprinkled across one hundred and thirty minutes, this is clumsy comedy of the very worst kind.
Let's be honest; the daily soaps on prime television cut a better picture. Gopala Puranam is one of those real shoddy films that don't usually get made any more. On second thoughts, maybe they do.
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