Cocktail

Film: Cocktail

Cast: Jayasurya, Samvrutha Sunil, Anoop Menon, Innocent, Fahd Fasil

Director: Arun Kumar

Producer: Jaleel

Music: Alphonse, Ratheesh vega

Cinematography: Pradeep Nair

Screenplay/Dialogue: Anoop Menon

Review: Khan M.Jahangir

Cocktail –the torchbearer of difference

The debutant Arun Kumar’s ‘Cocktail’ is a fantastic movie. The movie is inspired from the theme of a Hollywood flick ‘Butterfly on a Wheel’, even if the movie has freshness in the approach backed by really good scripting. The plausible efforts from the total crew behind and on screen made ‘Cocktail’ a must watch movie. Arun Kumar, the Editor of numerous hit Bollywood flicks, used his experience very well to make this movie exciting and enchanting.

Storyline

Ravi Abraham (Anup) is a promising architect who lives in a metro city with his wife Parvathy (Samvrutha) and daughter Ammu. One day, Ravi and Parvathy meets a stranger (Jayasurya), who asks a lift in their car, starts to threaten Ravi and Parvathy with their daughter’s life. The stranger starts to make rules and persuade Ravi and Parvathy to obey him. Ravi and Parvathy hardly had any clue about the stranger and his actions. The stranger takes the couple for a bumpy ride of realities.

The director and script writer had a big challenge that the movie revolves around three characters, but they have overcame it with a nice and fresh treatment. Among the actors, Anup Menon and Jayasurya did very well. Samvrutha’s character too has a soul. She did an excellent job as Parvathy.

The movie deals with the stinking truth behind the fragrant metro life. The director did maximum possible justice for such a complex subject. The movie has many scenes to show beyond the obvious of urban culture.

The music department has been handled by Alphonse and another debutant Ratheesh Vega. The songs are really good and it has already created an impact in chart-toppers. The song ‘Neeyam thanalinu’ is one of the biggest hit of this year. The background score too is good. Prasanth Madhav created beautiful backdrops for the total richness of the movie which has been enchantingly filmed by Pradeep Nair.

Rating 3.8 out of 5

Cocktail trailer