ABCD Movie Reviews

ABCD talk about two young Malayalee guys from US, Johns (Dulquer) and Korah (Jacob Gregory), having a lavish life out there. However Johns’ dad (Lalu Alex) decided to teach them a lesson by sending them to their homeland. However soon Johns and Korah find out things are not as expected out there. Their confused state in adjusting with the culture is the core of American Born Confused Desi.

ABCD is good at bringing smile at regular interval, indeed that is the main attraction in this flick, while film also concentrates to bring little thoughts about our social life at times. While the film did not makes any statement on those issues, it rather shows the confused minds of Johns and Korah on those situations. And left to us to make an answer to those issues. The hilarious dialogues and over the top situations did make enough good moments, however the lack of a strong story line and script at times play spoil spot.

At some points ABCD did raises few eyebrows, especially the guys who born and brought up in US has some great Malayalam accent, that we won’t often find with our current youth over here. And they do have some English which makes as really doubt whether they actually from states as one of the character, Madhumitha (Aparna Gopinath) wonders in one of the scenes. Apart from that ABCD is a nice film, which has some good sense of comedy numbers. How both Johns and Khora behaves in unfamilier situations make ABCD more entertaining.

Martin Prakkat’s direction looked good, The script from director, Naveen Bhaskar and Sooraj-Neeraj provides enough hilarious moments, while the script lacks a much strong story line. I personally liked the climax, being a different one. The visuals of Jomon T John looked appealing and helped the movie looked stylish. Gopi Sunder had done his part pretty good with his music, suiting the genre of the film. Same goes for Don Max’ editing and other technical support too.

The performance of the cast was key for ABCD, once again a clever selection from Dulquer, saw him done his part convincingly and proved that he is growing as an actor with every film. Jacob Gregory and Aparna Gopinath made a strong debut. While Jacob Gregory got a great chemistry with Dulquer that was a key for ABCD.

For Aparna her immense stage experience did reflect in her acting, and can expect more from her in the coming days. Another first timer Tovino Thomas, done justice to his role as a young minister with negative shades. Lalu Alex as usual looked convincing in his role as a responsible dad. Thampy Antony, Vijaya Raghavan and Savannah also got some good performance.