Parava Review

25/09/2017

01/CR/Malayalam

Plot:
* The plot narrates in a non-linear style which occurs in a place called Mattancherry which is in Kochi, Kerala. There are two plots. First one is the story of two teenagers, Ichappi aka Irshad and Haseeb and their passion towards birds and the second one deals about the story of Imran and his friends and their local club, Six Four Mattancherry. Some incidents changes their lives and how they deal with the changes. That's the whole plot.

Performance:
* Kudos to the teenagers, Amal Sha and Govind who played the roles as Ichappi and Haseeb. They enacted their roles without any flaws. Their scenes with birds were one of the key scenes in this film.

* Dulquer Salmaan who played the role, Imraan was good. He played the role effortlessly. Shane Nigam as Shane was the most suitable actor for this role. The antagonists are the surprise package of this film. They succeeded in emoting villainism without any dialogues itself. That's an actor's success. All other actors were fine.

Technical Aspects:
* Soubin Shahir's debut movie as a director. He worked as an assistant director in Malayalam Cinema for over 15 years and he enacted over 10 roles as a sidekick, comedian roles in various Malayalam movies. His work as an director should be appreciated as he maintained the flow of the movie more enjoyable. Soubin's ideas were seen firstly, on the title credits itself. Kudos to Soubin for the best execution. Surely he deserves debut director award for his work in Parava.

* Script by the director himself and Muneer Ali was good but could have been improved a bit more. But the screenplay was fine enough to make the movie racy, it didn't make any boredom.

* DOP by Littil Swaymp was amazing. Many frames and shots were fresh and new especially shots with birds were amazing. Most shots of birds were raw and original and his effort was eevident through every frame of Parava. 

* Editing by Praveen Prabhakar was well-suited for the film. Editing was the main point where the flow of the movie made racy. He led the movie in a racy manner or else there would be a lagging situation.

* Music and BGM by Rex Vijayan. He's actually an underrated music director in Malayalam Industry. After the movie Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi, the music of Rex was fresh and was well-suited for the movie. Definitely, directors should utilize his talents.

* Other departments like Sound Designing and Mixing, Production Designing, DI, VFX was fine enough.

Final Word: Watch Parava for best theatre experience of Malayalam Movies after Angamaly Diaries and Take Off. There are some moments that haunts us after watching the movie. So do watch it.

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