Balram Vs Tharadas is a big disappointment, if you consider the stature that both the characters Balram and Tharadas enjoy in the minds of the viewers.
It is not such a bad movie, but everyone from average viewer to extreme critic would only review it keeping in mind the hype that this movie created, thus their verdict would not go beyond the average mark. The stupendous opening that it got might help it get the break-even status.
A box containing arms was found hidden in a college construction site and DYSP Balram is instructed to take up the case. He soon finds through his investigation that it belong to Tharadas, an international criminal. He soon realize that Kerala’s top politicians and police officials are mere puppets of Tharadas and he stood no chance of catching this international don, unless he does something out of bounds.
So he arrests Tharadas’s love of life, actress Supriya (Katrina Kaif), under the charge of keeping weapons. He imprisons her and made sure that Tharadas’s marionette politicians can’t get her out, so that Tharadas himself would come for her rescue. Indeed, Tharadas comes, but didn’t fell prey to Balram’s trap. He manages to rescue his beloved but had more pressing matters to deal with than Balram, when his own men started back stabbing him.
Most of the second half is a cat and mouse game where Balram is hell bent on catching Tharadas and Tharadas having a hard time, with his side-kicks all set to finish him off. In the end Tharadas gets back to them and has a changeover.
It is perhaps for the first time that two characters from different films come together for a film directed by the same director. I.V Sasi and team succeeded, to some extend in bringing to life the changes that might have occurred to both the characters, over the years. Balram, as he is DYSP now, has matured a lot and loses his temper a lot less often than he used to as Inspector. On the other hand Tharadas predictably has broadened his horizon worldwide.
Everyone associated with the movie were so intimidated by the characters that they grossed out with their creative mind. Taking on even one of these characters would have been a gargantuan task; I.V Sasi-T.Damodaran-S.N.Swamy team took on the two of them.
To cut the story short— they dug their own grave, or at least that of IV Sasi’s. Never will anyone entrust him with a big project. They say it was Mammotty who insisted on adding Tharadas in to the story and also the one who paneled the songs. Hmm...no comments. Mammotty had a difficult job, playing two characters from two different movies. Balram was a success but can’t say the same about Tharadas.
Except for the vaguely hummable ‘Mathapove…’ all the songs were bad. And their visuals were even worse. The camerawork was pretty decent. Katrina really looked out of place, but beautiful nevertheless. Siddique, Mukesh and Rajmohan Unnithan were the notable performers. The comedy track with Jagadeesh and Kalpana was little more than ordinary.
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