Pokkisham – Cheran disappoints you wholeheartedly

Banner: Nemikchand Jhabak

Production: Hitesh Jhabak

Direction: Cheran

Star-casts: Cheran, Padmapriya, Vijayakumar, Aryan Rajesh, Bindhu Madhavi and others.

Music: Sabesh-Murali

If Cheran had made this film in either Malayalam or Bengali, we are sure he would have established a prominent place for him in the league of top-charting filmmakers like Rituparno Ghosh. But, an actual filmmaker’s task is about savoring to the tastes of audiences as well filling producers’ pockets with , more profits. Or else, if you’ve decided to make such films of unparalleled genres, go ahead and produce it at your own cost.

Pokkisham has nothing specially churned out for audiences. Maybe, 1/50 audiences would have liked the film. But the proportion is too low, isn’t? That should’ve got you the results for this film. Cheran has boasted about his unique theme hackneyed again in this film.

Set back in 1970, Lenin (Cheran), a marine engineer in Calcutta comes across Nagore based Nadheera (Padmapriya). Starting off with poignant relationship, it later shores on grounds on love. Don’t worry; parents are as convenient to their needs as they fix a date for marriage. Meanwhile, Cheran keeps mailing letter to Nadheera once in a month. But as Lenin moves to Nagore, he’s completely disappointed as Nadheera and her entire family has vanished with no address after selling their house.

Years later, Lenin’s son Mahesh (Aryan Rajesh) finds out his father’s hidden life through diary and sets out to find Nadheera for delivering a letter that his dad didn’t mail.

The film is so closely-weaved with more uninteresting narration. If you’re making a film on romance, let the audiences enjoy, laugh and cry for the emotions you deliver on the screens. But ‘Pokkisham’ doesn’t carry any such quotients. We don’t have anything more to analyze on this.

Cheran is so confused on making a film with commercial elements as well ‘art film’ genre. That’s the main obstruction failing to make it big. Sabesh-Murali disappoints us badly except couple of songs. Cinematography is perfect and so does editing.

Verdict: Falls down shortly.
Richard Mahesh