Hailessa Malayalam Movie
The first 15 minutes of the Suresh Gopi-starrer Haileessa will make you feel it's going to be an OK kind of entertainer and that the action hero, who had never got anywhere with humor-oriented roles, is getting better at that genre. The last fifteen minutes of Haileessa will however, have you cussing at yourself for your gullibility in wasting valuable time and money on such an utter waste of a movie. You will also learn beyond all doubt that Suresh Gopi is too wooden to do roles other than the ones he typically does. Put him in khakis and he'll strut about doing what he is wont to do. But for heaven's sake don't ask him to do anything funny. Spare a thought for the audience. Don't thrust humor on him. Suresh Gopi as an actor seems to have certain inhibitions that prevent him from letting himself go. He also seems to be unable to come out of certain mannerisms.
Thaha, the director who earlier had given us a big hit in Ee Parakkum Thalika, followed by two equally big duds in Kerala House Udan Vilppanaykku and Thekkekara Superfast, delivers his biggest dud of all in Haileessa. The hero of the story, Unnikrishnan, has been brought up by Madhavan and his wife and grows up working in Madhavan's fertilizer unit. In fact it was Unnikrishnan's hard work that led to Madhavan's rise in life.
Madhavan's son Ulpalakshan is Unnikrishnan's constant companion. One day, when a gang of goons attack Madhavan in a bid to vacate him from his land, Unnikrishnan intervenes and beats the goons to pulp. And then things take such a turn that he's forced to leave the place. He lands in a city where a rich man by the name of Ganapathy Iyer lives. Ganapathy Iyer, whose life is confined to a wheelchair, employs Unnikrishnan who becomes his virtual shadow. Before reaching the city however, he comes across a girl in the streets, who is being chased by people shouting 'Thief, Thief'. Ulpalakshan too comes to the city and gets into Iyer's service.
Ganapathy Iyer reveals that he had in the past loved a woman named Savithri, but had to leave the country on account of certain developments, and had lost touch with her. He had come to know later that Savithri had even given birth to their daughter, but he could never find the whereabouts of Savithri and her daughter. He wants Unnikrishnan to help him trace them.
Unnikrishnan and Ulpalakshan feel that it's not easy trace Savithri and her daughter and so plan to bring in another girl as Ganapathy Iyer's daughter and to tell him that Savithri was no more, hoping that this would help Ganapathy recover from his illness. Then one day, Ulpalakshan brings in a girl and presents her before Iyer. Unnikrishnan is shocked to find that the girl, Shalu, is none other than the one he had seen earlier on the streets being chased by others. What happens from then forms the rest of the film.
Though the plot does not offer anything new, the film could have turned out to be a good entertainer if the script had been better and if the director had exercised more care. But as of such, the script and the direction are poor and the film has turned out to be an utter flop.
Suresh Gopi cuts a sorry figure as Unnikrishnan, refusing to outgrow his mannerisms. The only actor whose performance in the film is worth mentioning in the film is Suraaj Venjaramoodu as Ulpalakshan, but it's a pain to see him doing the same things again and again in film after film. Laloo Aalex is just pasable as Ganapathy Iyer. Muktha, as Shalu, puts up a poor show.
There's nothing much that can be mentioned about the others in the cast, including Cochin Haneefa as the silly Police Officer and Vijayaraghavan as Madhavan. Technical aspects too don't deserve mention. The only song in the movie is greeted with the loudest of booing. To sum up, Haileessa is absolute crap. Suresh Gopi should stop attempting to do comedy oriented roles and concentrate on doing what he is best at, action roles.
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