Hailessa Malayalam Movie
There's pretty much little that you can do when you find yourself immobile with despair and a filmmaker goes hammer and tongs on your skull with a vengeance. Get ready for some nasty bumps and bangs, for watching Hailessa is quite akin to rafting the rapids without your lifejacket.
Thaha's film soars in like a flying saucer out of nowhere and shows no signs of returning back to outer space, much to our dismay. It has got something to do with a man who goes by the name of Unnikrishnan (Suresh Gopi) who plays caretaker to a handicapped millionaire, Ganapathi (Lalu Alex). Mr. Moneybags seems to be searching for his lost daughter, and is all ecstatic when his concierge provides him with one, Salini, (Muktha George), albeit a deceitful one!
Hailessa must have derived its title from some weird source. It had me worked up right from the start, and not much later I was scratching my scalp out in puzzlement. I really want to get to the bottom of the affairs for once, and put an end to the speculation as to why this really ridiculous film has an even more outlandish name.
The sudden urge to spring on to your feet and dash for the exit, screaming your lungs out in exasperation quite often arises en route the Hailessan finale. You desperately hang on, simply because you got to write on something on it a few hours later.
To be fair to the film, I wouldn't say all those jokes fell flat on their little tummies. I did laugh aloud a couple of times at least, but for the most part, it is all quite middle-of-the-road. There's some slapstick too, most of it having little appeal.
I wonder if Suresh Gopi was doing a desi Hulk, going by the way he was tossing the rough rogues around, up the ceiling and down the cross country lane. Must have been real tough for the baddies who looked busy taking flying lessons without parachutes. Muktha, by the way, is a good looking girl. Period.
A beading together of a cluster of jokes need not necessarily pass off as a good film. It's sad that there is no trace of identifiable human behavior in this comic hodgepodge that tries to speed ahead with a dead tyre.
Tired of trying to make a head and tail of the proceedings, I try to locate some energy, a bit of tempo perhaps or a real pulse somewhere. With no luck in sight, I realize that the artificial script is what has been bombing all over the place.
Too little character growth, too many cracks in the plot and an editing job that appears to have been done by someone with a hacksaw blade; the devastation is mostly absolute. And slow. Hailessa is a film that virtually falls off the screen in shreds.
Dud after dud, what's going wrong with 2009? Man, I seriously need a long vacation.
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