Solamante Theneechakal movie review: Better than Lal Jose’s recent works, but not near his best

The bee within the unique story about King Solomon was used as a metaphor for the way seemingly insignificant creatures can come to be of assist to an omnipotent ruler. In Solamante Theneechakal (Solomon’s Honeybees), scriptwriter P. G. Prageesh approaches the story from a extra literal sense, when referring to it on the fag finish of a criminal offense investigation because the investigator is about to level his finger on the precise suspect.

The investigation comes solely a lot later within the movie, which begins with the story of friendship between two ladies – Suja (Darshana S. Nair), a visitors cop, and Glyna (Vincy Aloshious), a civil police officer. Suja, who’s fed up with the visitors police responsibility and needs to hitch her buddy as a police officer, falls in love with Sarath (Shambhu), a driver for high-end rental vehicles. Issues start to crumble for Suja and Glyna following a homicide during which Sarath may very well be one of many suspects.

Maybe, the one time director Lal Jose has tried something near a criminal offense drama in his profession, spanning 24 years and 27 movies, was with Classmates, one of many largest successes of his profession. Over the previous few years, he has not been in the most effective of kinds, with a string of disappointing movies. In Solamante Theneechakal, he returns to creating a criminal offense drama after a very long time.

Regardless of the performing abilities of the 2 main ladies, whom the director picked by way of a expertise hunt present, among the preliminary scenes to determine their friendship appear pressured, particularly a track sequence for his or her ‘Insta sisters’ web page. The movie doesn’t choose up tempo till the arrival of Circle Inspector Solomon (Joju George) to analyze the crime, nearly close to the interval level.

Although there are some efficient twists and turns written into the script, the investigation half would possibly pale compared to among the extra slick crime thrillers being made nowadays because of the manner it has been translated on the display screen.

The strain actually doesn’t construct, regardless of there being events for a similar. Purple herrings are aplenty, and most of the people wouldn’t fall for any of them besides the ultimate one which was properly pulled off. The truth that this risk lasts just a few minutes, earlier than the precise suspect is revealed, additionally might need labored in its favour.

Though Joju George carries a lot of the movie, among the younger crop of actors, together with Vincy, Darshana, Shambhu and Addis, present promise. Though Solamante Theneechakal doesn’t attain the highs that Lal Jose touched with Classmates, it’s actually a notch higher than lots of his current works.