Director: Vysakh Cast: Mammootty, Raj B Shetty, Sunil, Anjana Jayaprakash Turbo starring Mammootty and Raj B Shetty is a missed opportunity. To have two brilliant performers sharing screenspace, there was so much more that this action film could have done, but in the end, it was just an endless recycling of plot devices and story arcs that are cliche. Interestingly, writer Midhun Manuel Thomas seems to be self aware, because his lead characters reflect the very thoughts that an audience member would have.
Be it Raj’s character Vetrivel yelling about cliched escapes, or Mammootty ’s character Jose crying out in frustration, wondering if there was no end to the incoming onslaught of thugs thirsting for his blood – it is quite in keeping with the exasperation that we feel as a viewer. A major pain point for me in this film was the fact that the meeting between Jose and Vetrivel was delayed beyond reason. There was also no suspense, or tension whatsoever to build up this clash.
Sure, there was a slight tension and drama in the scene where the two come face to face in a police station, but it was no palpable. What this scene needed was drama, and that was just not written in the screenplay to be translated. The background score does attempt to gloss over this lack of tension, but there is definitely a visible void in this scene.
Ironically enough, the film is pretty clean. In the sense, the set-up of an underground syndicate that scams banks by using dormant accounts to stas.
