Aavesham: Mighty Malluminati
Updated On: 28 April, 2024 04:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Meenakshi Shedde
The film is about the unlikely friendship between gang boss Ranga (Fahadh Faasil) and three young college boys Aju (Hipster), Bibi (Mithun Jai Sankar) and Shanthan (Roshan Shanavas)
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I have not roared and laughed aloud in a theatre in a long time, as I did watching Aavesham (Rage), a rip-roaring Malayalam film (with English sub-titles) directed by Jithu Madhavan. The whole theatre was roaring too, with excited fans taking selfies with the end credits! When did you last see that in a theatre, boss? Aavesham is a hilarious action-comedy. It is very violent, yes, but it has no interest whatsoever in low hanging fruit like Bollywood’s mere maar-dhaad actioners. Its violence is at many registers—hilarious, intelligent, smart, and even poignant, because its gangster hero Ranga craves love rather than fear. And just love from regular chaps, like three paavam college going boys, not even romantic love—hell, there’s not even a token heroine to do an item number and vanish, Bollywood-style. The film is a Deadpool-style spoof of popular action films—and I lerved Fahadh Faasil’s (FaFa’s) little throwaway macho chin-caress, Pushpa-style (FaFa also stars in Pushpa-1).
The film is about the unlikely friendship between gang boss Ranga (Fahadh Faasil) and three young college boys Aju (Hipster), Bibi (Mithun Jai Sankar) and Shanthan (Roshan Shanavas). They are stripped and thrashed by their seniors, so they befriend a real goon in order to straighten out their tormentors. Aavesham is set in Bangalore; Premalu is a Malayalam film set in Hyderabad, and Manjummel Boys is set in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. The usual ploy to draw audiences in multiple states, is by having a star from another language film industry, but again, Aavesham is not interested in low hanging fruit, choosing instead, the much tougher route of a screenplay and dialogue that brilliantly plays on three languages—Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi—with some terrific laughs.
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