SIFY REVIEW OF HARIHARANPILLA HAPPYAANU(HAPPIYALLA)
Topic started by TRUTH TELLER (@ 61.1.253.100) on Mon Nov 24 14:35:20 EST 2003.
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Hariharan Pillai Happy Aanu can be labelled as one of Mohanlal’s worst films. What a waste of a gifted actor in an enterprise that is likely to make you tear your hair with grief. Devoid of continuity, craft and coherence, the result is chaotic. Viswanathan, the debutant director should go back to his ‘guru’ Priyadarshan to learn the basics of direction before he attempts another film.
Hariharan Pillai (Mohanlal) a simpleton is a hardworking civil contractor. Hari runs his own construction company with his uncle cum supervisor (Cochin Haneefa), carpenter Vasu (Jagathy) painter Sundaran (Salim Kumar) and others. Satyapalan (C.I.Paul), a rich moneylender takes Hari for a ride and cheats him after he constructs a palatial house for him. Satyapalan’s daughter Kavya (Jyothirmayi) after an initial tiff with Hari falls in love with him! How Hari sorts out things and marries Kavya forms the rest of this predictable fare.
Even the great Mohanlal cannot prop-up this regressive piece of kitsch due to a dilapidated screenplay (ever heard of Sunil Impress?) and an over-the-top direction. It is archaic and looks like a Sasikumar (a hit director of 70’s) film. Mohanlal sleepwalks through the film and Jyothirmayi a talented actress sadly lacks glamour and oomph to do the role of Kavya. Jagathy and Salim Kumar cracks corny jokes with a lot of double meaning that leaves you cold.
There is not even one redeeming factor in this technically slipshod enterprise. At the end contrary to the title, you leave the theatre whining and totally unhappy!
Verdict: Unhappy Times
Responses:
- From: Kiron & Manjith (@ 61.1.234.62)
on: Mon Nov 24 21:19:01 EST 2003
DON DO LIKE THIS MR.TRUTH TELLER!!
Your name is juz like Director VInayans'
Name & activities are in contrast!!!
YOU HAVE JUZ COPIED THE STORY LINE FROM SIFY.COM
& THEN ADDED YOUR COMMENTS!!!
You may be a fan of some stars( not lal)
But you have to kept in mind one thing,
Cinema is a business. A lot of money & efforts are behind it!!! Our government getting most of the taxes from them!!!
I didn't mean that so u have to see all the Thandavam, Onnaman like vulgar films.
But u can do one thing.
By the fans craze don ruin a good directors career(may be).
Sukrutham, ChandranudikkunnaDikkil all are the victims of these types of baseles comments. Even the great Sargam would have been a victim. God saved it!!
we(kiron & manjith) r also business men!!
We know the tension, efforts etc behind a new venture. You will be doing a great sin if Pillai is a good film.
I know u didn't c it.
- From: truth teller (@ 61.1.253.141)
on: Tue Nov 25 17:33:24 EST 2003
Dear Kiron & Manjith
Plz check the sify.com site if u have any doubts........the above is the exact copy (not a single word have i added or deleted) as given in the sify.com site.......plzzz check it for god's sake and tell comments............
How can u compare Sukrutham and Chandranudikkunna dikkil to HHPH???
Sukrutham was a classic.....CD was a good movie......
frm the review i've read, it seems like HHPH's fate is sealed......i wont watch a movie after such a bad review.......but i request u to watch the movie and say ur comments.........
- From: malayalee (@ 132.170.178.62)
on: Tue Nov 25 18:06:07 EST 2003
i know sify is a biased site it is komaaly Dilip's site .. but HHPA would be really bad other wise they wont write like that bcoz for Balettan even if the movie was not great the sify review was better than that of HHPA .. it would be a flop if other Ramzan movies attract crowd.
- From: Kiron & Manjith (@ 61.1.234.216)
on: Tue Nov 25 21:45:09 EST 2003
Dear TT
I won compare Sukrutham & CD with HHPH
Since i didn't c HHPH.
What i mean is CD's fate was that!!
It was a good movie
But that time these kind of reviews & the people like u underestimated it by GUESSWORKS (without seeing it).
So only it failed in box office. same is the case with Sukrutham.
In that case only I compared it. OK!!
I DONNO WHETHER HHPH IS GOOD OR BAD.
But I won say that it is a bad movie!
Since i didn't c it!!
That is the Point !!
Ok TT
Hey Malayalee sify os Komaaly Dileep's Site?????????
Don write utter nonsense
- From: truth teller (@ 61.1.255.136)
on: Thu Nov 27 07:31:00 EST 2003
Have u read Sify's review of CID Moosa? or Sadanantante Samayam? They were cruel on it...just read it, u can still c it.Even they said Thilakkam and Gramaphone were average.......so i dont think they r biased.....lets wait 4 the War&Love review......i'm sure it would b rated bad by sify because it'll b another Vinayan Masala with many rapes.......
- From: kumar (@ 212.72.6.83)
on: Sat Dec 6 10:32:02 EST 2003
potty potty hhph potty. get lost lal.
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