My review: Honey Bee
Famous writer, director and actor Lal's son Jean Paul Lal is making his debut with "Honey Bee", a breezy buddy comedy. Lal Jr comes across as a talented youngster adept in direction and visualization, but needs to tone up his writing skills with respect to screenplay. He is able to keep the tempo going in the first half with lots of enjoyable moments, dialogues written with gay abandon (though substantial part of it is beeped by the censors ) and the pace is good. But somehow in the second half, screenplay looses its steam, gets a bit boring towards the end with a predictable ending.
Story seems to been inspired from one of the trendsetting movies of the nineties, Fazil's "Aniathipravu". But the making style is totally stylish, contemporary and uber cool. What make the heads turn is the boldness in the dialogues and the content. Movie is replete with profanities, toilet jokes, lots and lots of alcohol and drugs. Finally these youngsters seem to have shed all the inhibitions and trying to venture into these less explored territories and conceiving unconventional characters.
Movie's strength other than its making and dialogues is the cast and their acting. Asif Ali just about manages to comes out unscathed though at certain scenes he seems have lost focus. Bhavana is stylish and has done her part well. It is the trio of Baburaj, Sreenath Bhashi and Balu as the friends of the couple who steal the whole show. Baburaj is once again excellent in his portrayal of Fernando who is the conscience keeper of the group. Sreenath Bhashi is brilliant complimented well by Balu. Lal and his gang of villains also have done a good job.
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Movie has excellent music Deepak Dev. Both the songs as well as the background score is good. Movie is technically classy. Shot in Redone camera by Alby, he has used interesting colour tones. Most of the frames are colourful with the director and the cinematographer having chosen lots of bright colours in the background. But on the downside, like in "Neram", here too there are lots of unnecessary slow-mos which ends up irritating more than anything else.
On the whole, "Honey Bee" is a one time watch. If only Lal Jr concentrated on his screenplay bit more, especially in the second half the result would have been even more better.
Bottomline: Finally out of the closet.
3/5
Story seems to been inspired from one of the trendsetting movies of the nineties, Fazil's "Aniathipravu". But the making style is totally stylish, contemporary and uber cool. What make the heads turn is the boldness in the dialogues and the content. Movie is replete with profanities, toilet jokes, lots and lots of alcohol and drugs. Finally these youngsters seem to have shed all the inhibitions and trying to venture into these less explored territories and conceiving unconventional characters.
Movie's strength other than its making and dialogues is the cast and their acting. Asif Ali just about manages to comes out unscathed though at certain scenes he seems have lost focus. Bhavana is stylish and has done her part well. It is the trio of Baburaj, Sreenath Bhashi and Balu as the friends of the couple who steal the whole show. Baburaj is once again excellent in his portrayal of Fernando who is the conscience keeper of the group. Sreenath Bhashi is brilliant complimented well by Balu. Lal and his gang of villains also have done a good job.
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Movie has excellent music Deepak Dev. Both the songs as well as the background score is good. Movie is technically classy. Shot in Redone camera by Alby, he has used interesting colour tones. Most of the frames are colourful with the director and the cinematographer having chosen lots of bright colours in the background. But on the downside, like in "Neram", here too there are lots of unnecessary slow-mos which ends up irritating more than anything else.
On the whole, "Honey Bee" is a one time watch. If only Lal Jr concentrated on his screenplay bit more, especially in the second half the result would have been even more better.
Bottomline: Finally out of the closet.
3/5
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