Nalla Paattukaare

Medium : Malayalam
Starring : Jagathi, Bheeman Raghu, Vijayaraghavan + some familiar faces from reality shows
Director : KS Sivachandran
Music : Sharreth

A week before, seeing the (non attractive) posters of a new malayalam movie 'Nalla Paattukaare', featuring some faces from the reality shows, a friend of mine asked, 'do you watch it ?', my reply was 'of course, since i have to write about it...' in return he commented in an interesting manner 'then you should be honored...!', I thought it was an usual response that came from a person who is not at all interested in (un)reality shows.

The director is also not popular, heard the name KS Sivachandran, when enquired it was known as he is having an experience of 20years in the field as the director of few C grade flop films (i am keeping the decency by not mentioning their names). The only name familiar in the technical area was the music director Sharreth, the songs that released months before also didn't attracted me. Even though the promotional posters of the movie pulled me back, without a single percent interest, I decided to flow against the wind.

'Nalla Paattukaare' is based on a music reality show and its related incidents. The art work of the stage where the majority of songs and incidents are happening, showed the 'standard' of the movie. A singer sings and all other participants also joins to dance with him, in the end as per request from the anchor (duplicate Ranjini Haridas), the judges (Sharreth, Ouseppachan and Soumya) tells comments. This is the pattern followed till the end. When judges ask something to the participant, they will tell his flashback accompanied by crying where poverty, diseases, unemployment, disliking of parents regarding music field etc are highlighted. In another story the problems happening between father and mother of the participant were there, in a different case you are also shown the cruel behavior of uncle who is not interested in such competetions, in another area a lady even commit suicide when she heard that her daughter is out of the competition, like that it goes. In the end, when director Rajasenan is shown as the special guest, the 'forum' is complete...

In short, hopeless and unprofessional direction, inadequate story situations, pathetic comedy scenes, placement of too many extra artists, amateurish show by all the new comers, unattractive locations, art works done 'cheaply' to save money, poor visuals and dance steps with bad performances from many in the song sequences etc have made the whole environment dirty and polluted...

The scenes involving Jagathi and Bheeman Raghu (in a female make up) as teachers for the participants are good enough to lose the temper. The decoration using posters on the wall in such a location is 'notorious' (it might be the rest room of the water theme park where majority of portions are shot). The scenes of a 'rich' participant bearing lot of money in his pocket is a miscasting and the comic comparison of the fat guy with an elephant has been shown in the 60's itself. The placement of Kozhikkode Santhadevi in the negative character shows the 'brilliance' of director. Other than five or six characters, the director had managed to given majority of the roles to extra artists / new comers...

The participant at his young age singing, after seeing the mental imbalance of his mother, is another unwanted area to be noted. The anchor praising the performance, comments of the judges and the reaction of the participants for it are all equally intolerable. Music director Ouseppachan and his companions have also delivered different 'expressions' in their acting at this area ! At one stage, we are shown a participant screaming towards the audience for not sending the sms. The placement of the prayer song towards the end will only be helpful to elaborate the movie length. The negatives projected there are endless, the space and time won't be enough to specify...


Any vulgarities and non sense done by ex-'reality show figures' in a feature film cannot be accepted at any cost. 'Nalla Paattukaare' is one of the worst movies ever happened in the malayalam history. Instead of blocking the release of movies like 'Oru Naal Varum' and 'Nallavan, the people concerned should have taken necessary steps to ban movies like this that can spoil the name of the whole industry...


Rating : 1 / 10

('half' mark would've been enough, but there is a chance for 0.5 to be misinterpreted as '5'...the mark is only for showing the stills of some legendary musicians, singers and lyricists along with the title credits, but that too is incomplete and not arranged properly)