Aashiq' Big G
Saumesh Thimbath
Ever since Aashiq Abu saw
Big B, the 2007 Malayalam action flick directed by his budddy
Amal Neerad, he was secretly wishing to be its director. The trailer
of Abu's upcoming Gangster makes one feel that he has finally
made his Big B, without making too many unnecessary changes.
The one minute forty five second trailer has many spots on its body
that give away its antecedents. Both the movies have Mammooty
playing the lead and the most apparent difference is that the brooding and calm Bilal of Big B has become
the brooding and calm Ali Akbar Khan (or something similar) of
Gangster. Gangster, just like
the Amal Neerad's debut venture, is in all probability a
gangster-called-back-out-of-retirement story. If it was the death of
the mother-figure, played by Nafisa Ali, that prompts Bilal's return
to his yesteryear bastion, Akbar Khan is called back by the character
played by famous scriptwriter John Paul, who could well be his
godfather, an ageing do-gooder gangster or a great soul who
rehabilitates slum children. Some of the shots, especially the aerial
shot of the SUV and the one that shows Mammooty getting out of the car,
remind too much of Big B that the makers should atleast have
had the good sense of not including them in the trailer.
Big B had a
not-so-bad run at the BO just because it was in many ways a
refreshing change from the usual action movie fare in Malayalam. But
the movie industry and audience choices have changed and Amal Neerad
has replicated the visual style in Big B many times over to
the extend that people have genuine repulsion towards it. So the
question remains as to why the most celebrated young director in
Malayalam should devote his time and energy for a movie like this.
Well, may be it's too early to comment, may be the movie has
something that none of us have ever seen, may be the trailer was
intentionally misleading. You have no idea how much I want to be
proved wrong about my points. As they say, let's wait and watch.
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