If you are in a mood for a semi-decent campus movie of
recent origin in Malayalam, Dr-Love might be worth looking into. The movie has
no super stars or so says Kunchako Boban, the only star in the movie.
Considering his advanced age and receding hair line, the film makers gave him a
very important role in college canteen, which is where you’ll find aging movie
Malayalam movie stars who just can’t get enough of college life even if they
have sired grandkids of college-going age. College Kumaran Lalettan is the
prime representative of this species. Compared to that Kunchako could easily
pass off as a PhD scholar at SB College, Changanassery.
But Kunchako’s character – Vinayachandran is not into
studying to gain a doctoral degree. Vinayachandran, a struggling writer manages
to get a Dr prefix by offering consultations on love and romance, thus becoming
everyone’s darling Dr.Love.
The most convincing apsect of this movie is all college kids
look like college kids. Sudheesh and Idavela Babu have been given a rest and
their roles given to real youngsters like Bhagat, Hemant, Vidya Unni, Ananya, Manikuttan and others. Since just
helping a few love lorn teens is not going to sustain the image of Dr.Love
forever, the film makers introduce a cliched and predictable twist in the form
of Bhavana in the second half. Thankfully the movie gets over before it twists
itself into a knot.
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