Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri (2007)

The Worst Film Ever

Pretty Good

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The movie is an attempt to recreate the charm of "No. 20 Madras Mail", and heavily emphasizes its attempt of projecting it as a thriller right from the start. However, the very first scene of the protagonist disarming a suicide bomber is a forewarning of things to come in the next three hours.The movie revolves around three different murders in the same compartment of the same train, all within the space of a few hours. Therein lies the movie's problem. The audience does get lost in which murder they want to know about. The cases remain unsolved for sometime before it is handed over to the new RACT, which is an anti-terrorism wing of the railways.As the movie progresses, two of the murder mysteries are solved, and one cannot be blamed for letting out a sigh of relief that they are over with. But the third one still remains to be solved, and it turns out that the murder victim has a twin sister and one twin murdered the other. She gets caught because of different their different blood types. That knocks you off right there, as two identical twins do not have two different blood types, and so, technically the movie flaws.Suresh Gopi as the lead role is his usual self, and does not give anything additional. However, he does carry forward the movie on his shoulders. Kavya Madhavan is possibly the only actor who studied the story well, because she appeared as lost doing her role as I was watching it. Rajan P Dev does add some meat, while Siddique's character is at best a scarecrow in a desert. All decked up to scare nothing, but it helps the movie to complete 3 hours.Some Malayalam movie fans may like the movie, because there is yet to be a really good investigation thriller in Malayalam cinema, which has seen its best in the CBI Dairy cases, which were mediocre in its investigation but impressive in its entertainment.

omg... first, let me start by saying that the director had every intention to make this an engrossing thriller. little did he know that he would fail miserably.The movie is clearly made in a way as to please the malayalam audience. And it doesn't matter even if it did. To me, this movie is a total waste of time. And speaking about time, it runs for 3 (boring)hours.At first you could expect it to be good but as the film proceeds it gets boring and u long for it to get over.Suresh Gopi tries his usual stuff being a rough-n-tough cop. And its definitely ain't amusing Lemme put it this way...there are way too many incidents and characters that the director tries to rush things but its still a long movie.Its better tat u guys don't watch this.... utter waste of time.