Sandwich Malayalam Movie
Sandwich is a film that hopes to bank on a couple of feeble jokes to keep its viewers entertained. I doubt however that it will make you laugh, as much as it hopes to.
Sai (Kunchacko Boban) is a software engineer whose car rams into an unknown guy, killing him. Soon Sai realizes that it was a notorious goon that he had accidentally killed. However, the goon's brother goon Murukan (Vijayakumar) mistakes the accident for murder and vows to finish Sai off. And the goon's anti-goon (if you could call him that), Naikar (Suraj Venjarammoodu) warmly welcomes Sai into his fold.
Hence the name Sandwich, with Sai playing the fillings and the two goons playing the bread slices. Talking of bread reminds me of the script of the film itself, that's quite stale. Even if you forget the tedium associated with the non-happenings in the story, it remains spongy and malleable and not much packed together.
This could perhaps have made an interesting film, if there was something more to say in it. I mean, there is the accident, and then the entry of the rival goons, and Sai starts fleeing from both of them. this has to go on for another two hours, you see, and all the running about doesn't do Sai (or the film) any good.
Where are the girls, someone asks, and presto! There is Sruthi (Richa Panai), Sai's fellow software engineer who is betrothed to him. There is Kanmani (Ananya) as well, Naikar's daughter, hot on Sai's heels. While Sruthi gets to shake a leg with Sai on a studio set that makes you want to say too much of cotton snow, Kanmani goes all shaky with Sai on a set that makes you feel cotton was better.
The songs over, the girls disappear of course, and it's left to the men, to settle the affairs once and for all. There isn't exactly anything exciting happening at the climax as well, and the dust settles down without any further ado.
Thus, Sandwich could perhaps boast of a good basic story line, but suffers from a serious deficiency of all those necessary appendages that could keep a film running in full throttle. And even if you are someone who is looking for harmless gags that would keep you engaged for a couple of hours, you are likely to be in for a huge disappointment.
More than Kunchacko Boban or Suraj, it's Vijayakumar who is a revelation in this film, in that perhaps it's the first time that we get to see him do a comic role. He does it with remarkable élan, and it's a casting that takes us by total surprise.
The characters in Sandwich are poorly evolved, to the point of being implausible. Very rarely do they rise to the occasion, and its not entirely their fault that they haven't been given enough space to breathe.
