Lalettan & Big B : Kandahar

Rating : 3.1/5

Major Ravi brings back Major Mahadevan for the 3rd time....it all started with Keerthichakra(2006) and then Kurukshetra(2008)...and now KANDAHAR(2010)......

Its the first time Big B is in a Malayalam film ,and the 2nd time with Mohanlal in a movie(after Aag).Mohanlal is introduced early on this time,with the movie starting with him getting of a aircraft at the nagpur air base.

a few minutes later we are transported to the flashback portion...the entire movie is a flashback except the first 5 minutes and the last 15 minutes...



Big B,Mohanlal & Ganesh



This movie basically tells the story of a Surya Sharma(Ganesh,who acted with lalettan in Unnaipol Oruvan) who has just passed out from the flying school in Bangalore and is hellbent on getting a job,but his father Lokanath Sharma(Big B) who is a respected man,doesn't agree on using influence to get him a job....One day,when Surya gets into a fight with some locals,Mahadevan(Mohanlal),intervenes and later on suggests him to join the army and not waste his talent getting into fights....

parallel to this,Surya's Muslim friend joins hands with some jihadis to attain wealth and power,despite several oppositions from his mother(K.P.A.C Lalitha),he leaves town for Kandahar... the first half then shows the training days of Surya and His Friend parallelly,showing the hardships they both face...

the 2nd half is where the real story kicks in....the hijacking of the Air India flight from Mumbai to Delhi.....Surya is now working under Mahadevan and as their first mission they go to Kashmir to kill immigrant terrorists crossing the border.after the killings,Surya recognises his friend from among the dead....

Soon their team is ordered to report to the Delhi Airport for dealing with Hijacked Flight.the hijacked flight bound now for Kandahar stops at Delhi for refueling....during this time Mahadevan and his team enter the aircraft.....after which the story is more or less predictable......

First off, this one is better than its predecessor(Kurukshetra) which was pathetic.Big B has done quite a bit of a role for no fee and that's remarkable.....Mohanlal doesn't have that big a role,but he gets a few punch dialogues......Ganesh is good........the supporting cast has nothing much to do...except the terrorists(who r OK).....for its 120 minutes runtime,its a good effort that puts forward the message of not fearing,achieving things in life by working hard for attaining it....



The Legends



the movie is shot in variety of places - Ooty,Dehradun,Kashmir( i think),but not in kerala......the songs r few,but fits in well..Sonu Nigam's track plays during the end credits (which i think is the best track in the movie)....Major Ravi himself plays a small role in the movie....the movie also has it's light moments(one in the army camp when Surya is frog jumping)....and touching moments especially the scene where a small boy on board the flight intimidates a terrorist.....

the faults of the film r few compared to previous movie in the series....the major one-----one Mahadevan & Surya try to land the aircraft,one can easily spot that the aircraft they r trying to stop is a toy one......

Bollywood and Mollywood Legends sharing the same screen space is nice to watch....

Overall the movie is worth a single watch......but make sure to watch it in a theatre so as to get the feel of the movie whenever lalettan appears on the screen and the audience start clapping and cheering the Universal star ;-)

Trailer of Kandahar : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMX3dZOaTMQ