Masterpiece Movie Review: Mammootty Is The 'Master' Of This Fine Entertainer!

Mammootty As Edward Livingstone

Mammootty is the life of the film. He exudes confidence, energy and charm as Edward Livingstone, a strict college professor. He is as stylish as ever and whenever he appears on screen, he makes it a point to grab attention of the audiences.

Importantly, Mammootty is in full energy and form, throughout the film and he offers a grand time for all of his fans. Coming to the action sequences, he definitely has silenced his critics, once again.

Unni Mukundan As John Thekkan

Unni Mukundan appears as John Thekkan, a police officer. The role has an action tag associated with it and he has done a good job in such sequences. In fact, his character has got a mass filled opening sequence, which is at par with that of the central character. At the same time, he does go overboard in certain sequences, where he tries to put in a lot of effort for the character.

Gokul Suresh As Unnikrishnan

Gokul Unnikrishnan's role in the film was in the predictable lines. He has done a decent job as the naive Unnikrishnan, but still, there are rooms for improvement for this young actor.

Leading Ladies

Poonam Bajwa plays the role of a college professor, who is in awe of Edward Livingstome. She has nothing much to do and remains as an eye-candy. Varalaxmi Sarathkumar gets into the shoes of a police officer and she gets to play a neatly written role. Mahima Nambiar has done her part well in a short-yet-important role.

Rest Of The Cast

As usual, Kalabhavan Shajon has done a good job with his portrayal of a police officer. Mukesh essays a crucial role, but the dialogues given to him were indeed poor. Santhosh Pandit makes a decent debut in mainstream movies. The youngsters who appeared as college students could have put in a bit more effort. Lena, Kailash, Nandu etc., have come up with a decent performance.

Director – Ajai Vasudev

Ajai Vasudev follows almost the same format of his debut directorial venture, Rajadhiraja. He makes his intentions clear right from the beginning of the movie and that is too deliver a high voltage mass entertainer, for the festival season. The way in which he has handled the action blocks and the punch scenes are the right proofs for that.

He has made the proper use of the big star in Mammootty and has packaged the product as an entertainer with all masala elements in it. At the same time, his way of dealing with the thrilling and investigation parts of the movie can be questioned as many such sequences lack logic. Similarly, he couldn't properly use the big star cast of the movie, to the full extent. Nevertheless, Ajai Vasudev has made the film in a template, which we have usually seen in Telugu movies.

Script - Uday Krishna

Uday Krishna is back in action with Masterpiece. The storyline of the film has everything in it for a mass entertainer. The mass background that he has given for the central character works perfectly. The punch dialogues and the build up that he has given for the mass sequences are perfect. At the same time, the script missed impactful comedy sequences.

Music & BGM - Deepak Dev

The songs of the film have turned out to be pretty average ones. The Wakeup song is the only one that would create any ripples in the theatres. At the same time, the BGM suits the mood of the film pretty well. The theme music too, is a thumping one and works perfectly for the mass impact that the film has to offer.

Other Departments

Vinod Illampilly has set the right frames for his first work for a mass entertainer. John Kutty has done a decent job with the editing department. But still, he could have done a better job in the initial portions of the first half. CG & VFX were overused in the film, which is quite disappointing.