![]() ![]() Pulimurugan where Udayakrishna debuted as an independent writer might not be a great movie as a whole. What you also miss in Madhura Raja is the thrills or tense moments that could lead to action scenes. You are treated to more of them in Madhura Raja. There is nothing more painful than villain characters without brains, who cannot calculate the simplest of next moves by the hero when the audience can do it. Other than that, even though Manoharan Mangalodayam (Salim Kumar) says "twist twist" throughout the movie (just like Pokkiri Raja), you can predict at every point what is to come next. In Madhura Raja, the only place which is well scripted is where Mammootty outsmarts and traps a police officer- the scene where Rajendra Babu (Siddique) from Pokkiri Raja is re-introduced as well. Such spark has been missing elsewhere in their career or even when Udayakrishna became an independent writer. In Runway, how Valayar Paramashivam (Dileep) gets his lorries past the check-post was a masterstroke in screenplay writing. When he used to be a team with Siby K Thomas, they staged Devaraja Varma's transformation scene in Twenty20 very smartly, which is still one of Mohanlal's most memorable mass moments. It is not as if writer Udayakrishna hasn't done that in the past. When you come to the sequel Madhura Raja, you already miss these two factors.Ī mass action entertainer gets more enjoyable when you have lead characters who think ahead of the audience or who catches you unaware with twists and turns. Despite being slightly loud, Suraj Venjaramoodu's Idivettu Sugunan also raised few laughs in the movie. Perhaps one aspect that stood out in Pokkiri Raja was how it still gave space to Prithviraj Sukumaran in a Mammootty movie, allowing him to have a blast in the first half, before Mammootty arrived at the interval. ![]()
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