Thira

My review: Thira

After his immensely successful "Thattathin Marayathu " Vineeth Sreenivasan's next movie "Thira" deals with a topical issue of child trafficking. Scripted by Rakesh Mantodi "Thira" has Shobhana as the protagonist along with Dhyan Sreenivasan. Backed by a strong script, excellent cinematography by Jomon T.John, brilliant background score by Shaan Rahman and power-packed performance from the experienced Shobhana, Vineeth has executed the movie with aplomb keeping the viewers at the edge of their seats for the period of two hours. 

Movie deals with the dirty nexus of child trafficking, their modus operandi and their means of going about things. Though not bereft of cinematic liberties and cliches "Thira" keeps you engaged at the same time not transgressing much from realism too much. Also the movie is multilinguistic with ample dose of Hindi, Tamil and Kannada dialogues which serves to keep up with the realism but might off put many though most these are subtitled. 

The movie moves at a brisk pace. Technically the movie is top-class. Jomon T John's visuals are right up with the best of the best. Shaan Rahman's background score and songs aptly support the narrative. At places they even elevate the impact of certain scenes. 

Shobhana rocks in the role of Dr Rohini Pranab whose quest for truth leads to her engaging herself in yet another rescue mission. With all her experience this role might not have extracted much sweat from her. It is a pleasure to watch her on screen after a while. Even at this age she looks radiant and graceful as ever. Dhyan Sreenivasan just about manages to go about playing his role of a brother in search of his sister who gets kidnapped by the traffickers right under his nose. He however needs to hone up his emotive skills. 

On the whole, "Thira" is a well made taut thriller spiced up by topnotch making.

Bottomline: Engrossing watch. 

3.5/5