VIOLIN

After creating a hit like ‘Apoorvaraagam’,veteran director Sibi Malayil has treated the malayalam cinema lovers with a truly romantic family entertainer called Violin.Asif Ali and Nithya Menon in the lead,the movie portrays a small frame musical film to entertain the youth especially with some new thread and a different style of approach to the same.The songs are the highlights of this movie, which are already in the top ten list of the year. Getting into the thread of this movie, Violin,Nithya has blended very well as an anglo indian girl called Angel, who lives in Fort Cochin with her Aunts.Very closely knit these people are and they make bakery items for living. Angel is in the dark cloud of the past experience, which is actually a negligible one, but she is so sensitive that, she finds it too difficult to mingle with people outside her small and lonely world.Her violin is the most precious item that she has which was gifted by her late mother. She spends time with her violincthan with any other activities in lifeor with some other people or crowd.She is an excellent player and almost at the peaks of talent she is in because of her affinity towards music. Usually itm is difficult for Angel to start a conversation even with stragers and especially if it is a man then, she does not prefer to be a friend.Even if it happens it will take ages for her to offer her
care as a friend.Angel’s life takes a sudden twist as she becomes friendly with a boy named Aby who hails from a remote village of Karimannur.Heis as innocent as his village is andwho has had a truly empathetic childhood.He is the son of a guitarist, who was in Kochi’s rock music bands.He somehow falls into music bits and thenwith his peculiar ways changes himself.Aby is truly positive and always an enthusiastic person.Slowly Aby becomes more close to Angel and relises that, music is the one factor, which has brought both of them together.Then he tries his best to change their lives, giving importance for Angel in achieving her desires, dreams and hopes into reality. Vijayaraghavan(Simon), then owner of a sea food export company has nothing much to do other than a normal character and Jagathy Sreekumar as usual appears different from his previous role.Sreejith Ravi, Chembil Asokan, Lakshmi and Reena Basheer has done the roles very well.Especially Reena and Lakshmi, the aunts, who are very close to Angel as well, has got immersed into the portrays and may be the credit is for Siby Malayil.Nithya has a bright time ahead of her in the future as whatever she touches are turning into gold.Angel, the picture of an anglo indian girl, as many from Fort Cochin would probably know, the director has exctracted her talents and with the effort sincere and dedicated, has been amazingly presented by Nithya.When it comes to our youngster,the talented youth icon of malayalam cinema, Asif Ali, he deserves an applause for the job he has done.Being a person from a remote village in real life, would have probably helped him to get immersed into the soul ofthis character called Aby. Onceas his beloved director, Siby
Malayil, mentioned about him,after Mohanlal, Asif is the next person whom he has seen with so much of hardwork and flexiblity in performaces. Defenitely the guy has done a lot of homework, he tries to hold the audience to the seats with his simplicity and the exhibited born talents.This young man is once again proving that, he is capable of handling different roles, and he would definitely perform if chances are given. The first half of the movie, drags a little bit, but, then considering the fact that, there was noboasting or over publicity given to this small time entertainer, itis ignored to certain extent. Siby Malayil has again concentrated on strong family values, which are truly sensitive and this is a point where a human being actually fall for and he has succeeded in getting the appreciation without many big names in the banner area too.AOPL, has made the right choice by selecting a wonderful
casting.Movie,Violin is framed by
Manoj Pillai, who has not done extra ordinary trials or experiments with his lenses.But,there is nothing to blame his works. Bijipal is the who has to be appreciated and noted for the variety of the songs which he has created, blend with the theme of this movie, while Bollywood composer Anand Raj Anand has also tuned one of the songs of Violin.Rafeeq, is a promising lyricist and has very well penned according to the mood of this movie. Violin is a very simple theme, with a lot of scenes to hold us back to the seats, ofcourse, they never made it too loud, and as we have always seen in the past, Siby Malayil is one director, whose movies, take some time to start off their collection.This is common in all the family orientedthemes,script writers and directors.But, this time, for sure, the graph will have a sudden and faster climb than the past.