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Cast: Prithiviraj Sukumaran, Nazriya Fahadh, Parvathy Music: M. Jayachandran, Raghu Dixit Direction: Anjali Menon Anjali Menon’s Koode (Meaning With) revolves around Joshua (played by Prithiviraj Sukumaran) and his emotional journey he experiences. Anjali Menon’s ‘Bangalore Days’ and her written film ‘Ustad Hotel’ gave an emotional experience and Koode is nothing short of that experience. The bond between each character in the movie is amazingly portrayed. Malayalam cinema always uses the characters effectively. Even in Koode, Joshua’s grandmother who has two scenes will create an impact. The movie starts with Joshua, who is working at Gulf, receives a phone call from his father and we see him travelling to Kerala. The film cuts to the childhood of Joshua, where he picks up a nest that is fallen and places it carefully on the tree. Joshua is the caring person, who loves his family. This attribute is established in one scene mentioned above. In his childhood Josh

C ast: Kamal Hassan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea, Rahul Bose Music: Ghibran Direction: Kamal Hassan Kamal Hassan written and directed spy thriller, Vishwaroopam was released in 2013. The film appealed to me at the first watch, and repeated watching made me fall in love with the writing and direction of the film. The sequel of it has finally released after five years. Is this five years matter? Unfortunately yes. The film was on and off in production due to financial problems, which is very well reflected on screen. To start with, the graphics in this is poor, very poor to Kamal Hassan’s standards. Many screens are shot in green mat and it’s so evident to us. It aches to see such a poor visual effects in Kamal’s movie. The music for the first film was Shankar Ehsaan Loy and this sequel is by Ghibran. The songs are good, but the background score seems to be rushed or under used. Let set aside the visual effects and background score, the writing is itself suffers after

*Spoiler ahead With Vishwaroopam 2 scheduled to release around this weekend (Hopefully, considering all Kamal films face release issues), I decided to write on the things that I loved in Vishwaroopam. Vishwaroopam 2 is a prequel as well as a sequel to the 2013 release Vishwaroopam. Kamal Hassan as a writer and director has always impressed me more than the actor. Vishwaroopam is a treat for someone like me who likes the writer Kamal Hassan. The story of Vishwaroopam starts with Nirupama (Pooja Kumar) talking to her counselor about her relationship with Vishwanath (Kamal Hassan) and her secret relationship with Deepak (her boss). Kamal Hassan’s writing is clever. See how Nirupama refers to him to her counselor, as Wiz, which is short from of his real name Wizam Ahmed Kasmiri also for his spy name Vishwanath. Only a very few actors have command over their body. Kamal Hassan has mastered it. The transformation scene, where he fights after being innocent works every tim