Crazy Gopalan: a baggage of trite comedy
The so-called hilarious, comedy thriller that boasts of a cast having almost all Malayalam comedy stars, indeed turns out to be a punishment, disaster and killjoy for all who went to cinemas assuming actor Dileep’s previous success with comedy genre. Sadly though, the debut director, Deepu, could hardly create a genuine echo of laughter inside the cinema hall as it is nothing short of slapstick comedy, loud action scenes, and too many characters sharing screen space.
The story is about this obscure village thief, Gopalan, who creates sleepless nights for the local people and who leaves, a thank-giving note behind after each theft. This was to avenge the whole village who tortured his father to commit suicide on false allegations of misappropriation of chiti-funds. Salim Kumar, engaged in similar profession, partners with Gopalan (Dileep) and both get caught up in a bank burglary which they did not commit. Salim Kumar is shot dead by the real perpetrator (Manoj K Jayan), who himself is the bank MD, and Gopalan manages to escape. The second part of the movie is supported by Jagadi, but here too lacks a punch that the duo could easily create in CID Moosa.
The musical score is appalling, so are the action scenes reeking the age old monotonous,dishum-dishum style and the set never moves out of Kochi and near by places. Maybe, the producer is too reeling under the global economic recession and wants to keep the film budget to minimum. We all know, Dileep is an actor of high caliber. As luck would have it, better next time, dude!
I go with one star out of five for Crazy Gopalan. Highly recommended if you really like loud comedy with happy and predictable ending or if your train is late by four hours and feels like nothing to do around, watch this.
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Uthara Nair