Roudram, strictly for Mammootty's fans
People like to celebrate longevity -- birthdays, wedding anniversaries and silver jubilees. Likewise, it is a mater of celebration for an actor to be donning a character for the twenty-fifth (or is it twenty-sixth?) time. The USP of director Renji Panicker's second Malayalam film, Roudram is that Mammootty is playing a cop for the twenty-fifth time in his career. Other than that, the film offers nothing new. In fact, the film gives us a sense of deja vu, reminding us of Renji Panicker in his prime as a writer. As for the subject, the director has weaved a story taking all the political events happening in the state in the last few months and put his hero at the centre of it. As the hero, he is the same as we expect him to be -- a low ranking officer from the state cadre; an honest, stubborn man spewing fire with his words. He has scant regard for his corrupt superiors and does not mind giving them a piece of his mind at every given opportunity. Narendran aka Nari (Mammootty) is th...