Pon Man

 

A lesson for those who are passionate to achieve their Goals and a movie with a message against a wrong trend in society,   “PON MAN “ directed by Jothish Shankar .  Director, the lead characters done by Basil,Sajin Gopu, Anand Manmadhan,Lima Mol, Deepak and all others characters, I mean everyone of the movie , entire crew and its camera man, casting director, songs , Superb Script, I think everyone made it an outstanding one. 

Art director Jothish Shankar makes his directorial debut with “Ponman” set in a fishing hamlet in Kollam district of Kerala. Steffi Graf (Lijomol Jose in excellent form) is engaged to be married to Mariyano (Sajin Gopan, effective) and the groom’s family wants 25 sovereigns of gold in dowry. Steffi’s mother (Sandhya Rajendran, firmly in character) is worried since they don’t have the money and her son, Bruno (Anand Manmadhan, first rate) is a Communist party comrade who doesn’t work and does not earn anything for the family. 

When his mother abuses him for not being able to contribute anything towards the wedding, his party colleagues introduce him to Sharma (Deepak Parambol, competent) who further introduces him to Ajeesh (Basil Joseph putting in his career best performance) who promises to bring the required gold to the bride’s house on the day prior to the wedding on the condition that all gifts in cash donated by the attendees of the wedding will be taken by Ajeesh and in the event of a shortage, remaining gold will also be taken back by him. 

The plan works just fine, and Steffi is married off. However, getting the extra gold back is not easy as everyone thought. Does Ajeesh manage to get the gold back? Do Steffi and family give him the gold back? How does Mariyano react to all this? Watch “Ponman” to get answers to all your questions. 

What works the most in favor of the movie is the rooted script and characters. The script tackles the serious social issue of dowry, but it is not preachy or over emotional. Nevertheless, the impact of this social evil on multiple lives is clearly felt. Kudos to the writing team (G R Indugopan and Justin Mathew – the movie is based on the former’s short story “Nalanchu Cheruppakaar”) for getting the script and the messaging right and for creating flesh and blood characters who you can relate to. Jothish has a firm hand on the narrative and makes a confident directorial debut. Cinematography by the experienced Sanu John Varghese captures the backwaters and seaside of Kollam with all its pristine beauty. The landscape of Monroe Island has never been captured this beautifully on screen. Editing is by Nidhin Raj Arol and despite only 127 minutes long, the narrative does feel overlong towards the climax and could have been trimmed by another 5 – 10 minutes. Justin Varghese works up a good musical score and it helps to have K S Chithra croon the track that sums up the story and the situations that the characters are going through.

The remaining departments – Make up, costumes, action choreography (the climax fight makes you nauseous for the right reason) and art direction – also contribute to the overall narrative and casting department has done a fabulous job by identifying the right actors to portray all characters with each performance adding to the overall quality of the narrative. 

+ Basil who played the role of P P Ajeesh is truly inspiring character for today’s youngsters and professionals to learn many things and situations which he faces and overcome as a winner only because of his confidence with high attitude, throughout the movie PP Ajeesh displays a character in which , though he is getting cheated by powerful Rowdies and their family he shows the courage to face it alone , also the movies shows that in life only if you take risk and have got the courage to face that risk to achieve your goals you will be able to reach your podium of success, many dialogue which makes us to think and do evaluate our life . His persistence to conquer the villain and to take the gold from his hand , His loyalty to the job he is doing , his commitment and honesty which he is showing to his own life and work which he worship , his responsibility and the way he take care his family without making them know his struggles ( the best part is when the hero is got stabbed by the Villain , he goes under cover to get recovered without informing the family his mother and sister which his friends identify when they search for him ) that’s a great point that he himself try to fix when he fall down ,   The character PP Ajeesh played by Basil gives many messages to the society how you need to live life with all positives come whatever happens. 

Whatever the technology growth and advancement happens , Art and Artist plays a big role in shaping a society, the influential people and celebrities have got the responsibility to shape and build culture and bring up the coming generations, Movies influence society nature and culture very much and local flavoured stories which can help and develop the young generation to grow in life will add value and a true blessing which all producers,directors, and actors can contribute. I don’t think that any movie maker should try do more violence which inspire young generation to follow such path by thinking that we are into business and we mean profit. They don’t realise the influence the society is getting how many people getting affected real world , when they do it unreel world. I am not criticizing violence in movie it’s acceptable to an extent not to the extent where in people getting affected real influenced. Movies like PONMAN are the best example which proves it’s the content is the real hero which was well carried by the safe hands of an amazing director like Jothish Shankar , Characters played by Basil, Sajin Gopu ( what an actor with his style performance), Anand Manmohan and Lija Mol( heroine who made it stunning with her powerful character).