Mammootty’s Vajram directed by debutant Pramod Pappan is a low-class
mass entertainer purely aimed at the front benchers. Leave your
brains behind while watching this clichéd and unbelievable yarn
with a screenplay by Dennis Joseph. The corny script is basically
etched out of Oscar winning director Sam Mendes', Tom Hanks classic
“Road To Peridition”. This Hollywood film is set in the gangster
dominated city of Chicago during the depression era and is about
a hitman whose family life is shattered by villains. Like an angel
of death, the devastated hired killer sets out with his surviving
12-year-old son to wreak vendetta.
Similarly in Vajram, Devarajan (Mammootty) is an orphan brought
up by a loving Christian priest father Varghese (Rajan.P.Dev). However
Devarajan becomes a hitman for a mafia in Kochi but one of the villains
(Suresh Krishna) has an eye on his wife Nanda (Nandini) and her
huge fortune. She is a rich heiress who is now separated from Devarajan
due to the machinations of one of her uncles (Kalasala Babu). Their
12-year-old son Appu (Mithun) dotes on his father who is now a crane
operator.
Devarajan known as “Dracula”(!!) in the underworld is actually a
man with a heart of gold. He saves actress Gemini (Vasundhara Das)
from an accident and later from the clutches of her husband Willaims
(Babu Antony) who had actually planned to kill her! More baddies
like Manoj.K.Jayan join to rattle Devarajan but along with his son
he triumphs in the end on his long road to freedom from the underworld!
Mammootty is earnest in his attempt to do this larger-than-life
role of Devarajan but his attempts are dwarfed by a corny script
and a slow narration. The presence of a bloated Vasundhara Das cannot
save the film. Director Pramod Pappan has no style or substance
and the film seems to be aimed at B and C class audience who may
find it a time-pass.
Mammootty’s Vajram directed by debutant Pramod Pappan is a low-class
mass entertainer purely aimed at the front benchers. Leave your
brains behind while watching this clichéd and unbelievable yarn
with a screenplay by Dennis Joseph. The corny script is basically
etched out of Oscar winning director Sam Mendes', Tom Hanks classic
“Road To Peridition”. This Hollywood film is set in the gangster
dominated city of Chicago during the depression era and is about
a hitman whose family life is shattered by villains. Like an angel
of death, the devastated hired killer sets out with his surviving
12-year-old son to wreak vendetta.