CITY OF GOD: A REVIEW

Three different
stories,no i ‘l say three
different lives binding in a
single screen. That is CITY OF GOD. There were
lot of chances for the
mistakes with this binding…
But nothing happend…Lijo jose pallisseri has done it exceptionally well although he is a newcomer. His previous film "NAAYAKAN" with indrajith sukumaran got so many attention because of the way of presentation of subject... Here he came again with more complicated and extravagant subject of CITY OF GOD.
Three lives in a city. Thre kinds of people. Three kinds of culture and at the end one result. LIFE. Yes A new life has born. A well deserved life...
We are our own. But definitely there will be some hidden relations with some others life. City of god deals with unnoticing relations between three lives. They are meeting each other in different part of the story,they dont know each other and yet their lives are so bonded.
Indrajith,and prithwi raj,again proving that they are the next generation versatile actors. Coming days will definitely for the stardom of these two brothers... Indrajith got a risky character,as he has to maintain a typical tamil young man. And he has done a good job by realising that character. Prithwi has got an action packed roll. He justified his roll deeply.
Rima kallingal got a wonderfull character. I think it will be her second satisfying character after her debut film RITHU. She has got lot of emotional scenes,and very nicely done without any over acting. She controlled her very much.

After a long interval PARVATHI has got a strong character. And she proved that she has lot of potential for doing a challenging character. This will be a big break for PARVATHI.
Rohini,also got a challenging character. Her performance was excellent. She maintains her character throughout the movie.
Swetha menon,also given her 100%. Her tragical story has a keyroll in the story.

All in all i will give a 4.3 out of five.
MAY BE ITS BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SUBJECT OR THE SIMPLICITY OF STORY TELLING,CITY OF GOD IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIE.
RITHWIK

RITHU

A movie which deals with the seasons of life.Three friends, SARATH , VARSHA , SUNNY and their story has shown in RITHU. The storyteller is SARATH(NISHAN). The film is running through the life of SARATH. His dreams and expectations about friends.
He came home from silicOn valley USA after a couple of years to make his dreams true. After meeting his friends, he realizes one thing. Both of them had a preoccupied mood. Slowly he comes to know his friends are changed a lot. The friendship between SARATH and SUNNY and a little romance between SARATH and VARSHA has gone. But SARATH is the only one who has same commitment as before.
The romance between sarath and varsha is really amazing. They knows that they like each other. But without saying any single words their relation goes further. But a small gap between them,effecting deeply in their relationship.

This film shows the lifestyle of new generation youngsters very symbolically.The expectations towards the future along with their friendship beautifully represented here by director Syamaprasad.He's such a talented director.Rithu is a different approach from him. He explains this movie with his natural poetic touch.

As the story progresses a question arrives if front of SARATH...A beatiful question
"Do we change with the seasons ?"
Slowly he gets the answer. Yes we change with the seasons.
At last when SUNNY making a plan to cheat SARATH,he is facing that problem very boldly . When he left his friend and his lover he keeps asking that same question. "SEASONS CHANGE. DO WE ?