<p>Silence<br />Malayalam (U/A) ¬<br />Director: VK Prakash<br />Cast: Mammootty, Anoop Menon, Joy Mathew and others<br /><br />Aravind Chandrashekhar (Mammootty)-a lawyer, with a track record any one would dream about, is appointed judge in Karnataka High Court. <br /><br />Happily settled in Bangalore, the man has little to fret over. All is well before the plot ushers in the inevitable-the conflict. <br /><br />The hero gets bombarded with threatening phone calls from wailed assailants. Life, once serene, goes all topsy turvy and Aravind decides to set it right. <br /><br />Neil George (Anoop Menon) joins him in the quest for truth, which is a journey down the time line, and the supposedly thriller gets right on track.<br /><br />For Mammootty, success is long overdue and V K Prakash seems to have gone for the best bet. Coming from the stable of an eclectic filmmaker, Silence doesn’t go sans it’s moments. <br /><br />Having rendered characters along similar lines in the past, the lead actor shoves the way forward with sheer ease and never goes awry at it.<br /><br />His camaraderie with Anoop Menon is exhilarating and is something to watch for. But the boons can’t be too many when writer Y V Rajesh packs too less in the script which neither makes its way into the edge of the seat genre nor hold eyeballs for long.<br /><br />Nothing other than a shoddy script could let the suspense fizzle out half way through the film and this is what it ends up as. <br /><br />No larger-than-life heroism for Mammootty this time, so never even appeals to ardent fans. This one exemplifies nothing but a missed shot at crafting an engaging whodunnit.<br /><br />Started off well, never even half done, this Silence fades into oblivion, silently. <br /></p>
<p>Silence<br />Malayalam (U/A) ¬<br />Director: VK Prakash<br />Cast: Mammootty, Anoop Menon, Joy Mathew and others<br /><br />Aravind Chandrashekhar (Mammootty)-a lawyer, with a track record any one would dream about, is appointed judge in Karnataka High Court. <br /><br />Happily settled in Bangalore, the man has little to fret over. All is well before the plot ushers in the inevitable-the conflict. <br /><br />The hero gets bombarded with threatening phone calls from wailed assailants. Life, once serene, goes all topsy turvy and Aravind decides to set it right. <br /><br />Neil George (Anoop Menon) joins him in the quest for truth, which is a journey down the time line, and the supposedly thriller gets right on track.<br /><br />For Mammootty, success is long overdue and V K Prakash seems to have gone for the best bet. Coming from the stable of an eclectic filmmaker, Silence doesn’t go sans it’s moments. <br /><br />Having rendered characters along similar lines in the past, the lead actor shoves the way forward with sheer ease and never goes awry at it.<br /><br />His camaraderie with Anoop Menon is exhilarating and is something to watch for. But the boons can’t be too many when writer Y V Rajesh packs too less in the script which neither makes its way into the edge of the seat genre nor hold eyeballs for long.<br /><br />Nothing other than a shoddy script could let the suspense fizzle out half way through the film and this is what it ends up as. <br /><br />No larger-than-life heroism for Mammootty this time, so never even appeals to ardent fans. This one exemplifies nothing but a missed shot at crafting an engaging whodunnit.<br /><br />Started off well, never even half done, this Silence fades into oblivion, silently. <br /></p>