‘Super Sharanya’ movie review: Campus drama does not live up to its name

When girls’ hostels are portrayed in Malayalam cinema, the gaze typically has been that of an outsider, largely that of a male making an attempt to achieve entry to it or looking at it from far-off. In Tremendous Sharanya, a minimum of in its pleasurable preliminary parts, the gaze is from the within, with the script portraying the bonding between a gaggle of younger ladies in an engineering faculty. But, for a film which units out with such positive steps, and a seeming intent, the best way it squanders all of it within the latter half comes as fairly a disappointment.

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Sharanya (Anaswara Rajan), a woman of low shallowness arrives at an engineering faculty away from her dwelling, solely to search out the state of affairs there even worse for somebody like her. Ragging from seniors and her personal fears of how she is perceived by others drags her down, however a bunch of hostelmates provides her some degree of confidence. However extra issues are ready for her, with some males, together with a senior and a professor, growing emotions for her.

Filmmaker Girish A.D. had made a glowing debut with Thanneer Mathan Dinangal, wherein he confirmed that he has fairly a grasp on how younger individuals suppose and behave. The second outing virtually provides one the sensation that he has begun from the place he left off, with the protagonist Sharanya having a lot in similarity to Jaison from the primary movie. To not overlook, the loopy bunch of associates round her, particularly Sona (Mamitha Baiju), who is consistently exasperated by Sharanya’s naivety.

Initially, Tremendous Sharanya provides us the concept of being a distinct form of movie, one wherein the ladies are usually not decreased to being mere love pursuits. The scriptwriter has even created a hilarious caricature of a poisonous man, related in appears to be like and behavior to the much-celebrated ‘Arjun Reddy’. The lecturer who continuously pesters his pupil with a wedding proposal can also be not portrayed kindly. But, Sharanya doesn’t have a lot of an identification or existence, past that of being the thing of want of virtually all of the consequential male characters within the movie. She is even proven falling for Deepu (Arjun Ashokan), who won’t be an Arjun Reddy, however is domineering and mindless in his personal means.

Whereas the primary half is kind of pacy, with dose of humour, the script meanders aimlessly in a while, not even justifying the run-time of 164 minutes. A lot time is spent on Sharanya’s relationship with Deepu, their fixed confusions, fights and patch-ups, that the movie is decreased to being a typical old-school romantic drama, topped by a disappointing climax which appears to have been written to fulfill mainstream cinema compulsions.

Although Tremendous Sharanya is partly pleasurable, it misses the spark or sensibility that marked Girish’s debut movie.