Veteran
director
Joshiy's
multi-starrer
Salaam
Kashmir
with
Jayaram,
Suresh
Gopi
in
the
lead
roles
is
one
of
the
best
crap
movies
released
in
recent
times.
The
movie
set
against
the
backdrop
of
Kerala
and
Kashmir
is
a
military
family
thriller
which
fails
to
thrill
at
even
a
single
point.
Story
Sreekumar
(Jayaram)
is
a
house
husband
living
happily
with
his
wife
Suja
(Mia
George)
and
their
daughter
Sreekutty.
Suja
is
working
in
a
bank
and
earns
for
their
living,
while
Sreekumar
does
the
daily
works
in
home
including
cooking,
washing
clothes
and
every
other.
Suja
alias
Leena,
daughter
of
Jacob
(Vijayaraghavan),
a
famous
planter
at
Kanjirappally,
falls
in
love
with
Sreekumar
and
has
married
him
without
the
consent
of
her
parents.
Sreekumar
doubts
Suja
of
having
an
affair
with
Tommy
Eapen
Devassy
(Suresh
Gopi),
a
lieutenant
colonel
and
a
family
friend
of
Jacob
who
had
proposed
her
earlier.
One
day,
Tommy
drops
Suja
at
their
home
in
his
car,
which
causes
Sreekumar
to
shout
at
her
and
following
this
Suja
drops
her
job
at
bank.
With
none
earning,
Suja
finds
hard
to
move
on
with
Sreekumar
and
leaves
to
her
home
with
her
daughter.
Sreekumar
is
helped
by
Roy
(Lalu
Alex),
who
arranges
him
a
security
job
at
a
bar.
On
a
day,
Roy
comes
to
know
from
Tommy
that
Sreekumar
was
a
military
officer
in
command
of
the
cyber
wing
in
Kashmir,
who
was
on
a
mission
to
create
a
software
that
could
hack
the
cyber
wing
of
the
terrorists.
Following
an
attack
from
terrorists
on
Sreekumar
and
his
wife,
they
had
fled
to
Kashmir
for
a
safe
and
happy
life.
Now
Tommy
wants
Sreekumar
to
complete
the
mission
and
secure
the
nation
from
terrorist
threats.
Will
Sreekumar
take
up
this
half
done
mission?
Will
they
succeed
with
their
mission?
Answer
forms
rest
of
the
story.
Performances
None
of
the
lead
actors
were
impressive,
be
it
Jayaram
in
the
role
of
Sreekumar,
trying
to
create
some
laughs
in
the
first
half
with
some
double
meaning
jokes,
or
Suresh
Gopi
as
Tommy
Eapen
Devassy,
a
flirt
army
officer
with
a
dialect
of
Kanjirappally
Achayan's
who
comes
up
with
some
English
dialogues
at
times
to
make
us
believe
it's
a
military
movie.
Mia
George
as
Suja/Leena
had
nothing
special
to
perform,
but
she
has
done
justice
to
her
role.
Other
actors
including
Krishnakumar
(Satheesh),
Vijayaraghavan,
Lalu
Alex,
Krishnaprabha,
Sreekumar
(Vinu)
are
okay
with
their
roles.
Technical
Aspects
Cinematography
by
Manoj
Pillai
is
the
main
positive
thing
about
the
movie.
He
has
well
framed
the
scenic
beauty
of
Kashmir.
M
Jayachandran's
music
fails
to
impress
as
two
songs
in
the
movie
falls
flat
without
any
impact.
The
other
positive
thing
apart
from
cinematography
is
the
BGM,
which
is
good
at
parts.
Putting
aside
these
positives,
there
is
nothing
much
commendable
for
the
movie.
Be
it
the
poor
screenplay
and
dialogues
by
Sethu,
or
the
surprising
amateurish
direction
by
the
veteran
director,
everything
fails
to
impress
the
viewers.
Verdict
Can
you
imagine
such
a
movie,
which
has
scenes
where
the
national
cyber
security
wing's
computer
while
hacking
uses
words
'Scanning',
'Decoding' etc..
?
What
was
all
those?
A
mocking
to
the
cyber
security
wing
or
just
mistakes
coming
out
of
a
movie?
I
just
can
come
up
with
a
conclusion
which
is
copied
from
the
character
Kottayam
Kunjachan
-
'Joshiy
has
cheated
us'.