Johnny Walker is a Malayalam movie starring Mamooty, which was released in 1992, and which unluckily deekay chanced upon and had to undergo the torture of watching and thought of deriving sadistic pleasure by unleashing it on unsuspecting residents of blogosphere......
Synopsis: Johnny (Mammotty), is an estate owner in Kerala. His parents were killed when he was 16 year old and his younger brother 2 year old. He adores his younger brother like his own kid and has brought him up single handedly. There is a mysterious visit of actor Soman and Johnny always accompanies him at the end of this visit for a couple of days. Johnny's younger brother Bobby visits his native place along with his friends and has a gala time at home (Bobby is studying in Bangalore). Johnny decides to visit Bangalore and on going there, suddenly plans on joining college (he is 36 years old), to which the principal agrees as the college is filled with ruffians and principal saw Johnny roughing up one such ruffian. The drug mafia has presence in the campus and has already corrupted several youths there including the disappearance and murder an upcoming athlete, and also her coach, who dared to stand in the way of Swami, (the stooge of drug mafia in campus)..Bobby is interested in a girl, who becomes fan of Swami's drugged ice creams and cant stop eating (deekay meant the girl cant stop eating that icecream). This way, Johnny becomes involved in all this and it leads to death of one of bobby's friend, which turns Bobby against his brother ...(what a crap)....in the meantime, mysterious Soman reappears and tells bobby that Johnny is suffering from optical atrophy and is loosing his vision and won't be ever cured of it(Soman is Johnny's Doctor) (this was also the reason why Johnny decided to join college so that he can see his brother till his eyesight lasts)....Burning with remorse, bobby and his friends are on their way to meet Johnny when drug mafia stops them and assaults them...In retaliation, Johnny tracks down DD's (the drug mafia's) car, but DD was'nt in it. Johnny decides to get his kid bro married to the girl he loves, who by now, has been cured of her ice cream mania by doctors...On the day of marriage, Johnny starts losing his vision and Bobby is killed by the drug mafia...a nearly blind Johnny rushes to DD's adda and turns completely blinds there. In the end, a fully blind Johnny kills DD and drives his mobike into a no-entry zone and falls off into a valley .
Deekay thinks even now, after so many years of this movie being released, Mammokka should be having the same feeling (of driving his car or bike into a valley), if he ever dares to watch this movie again.
Cool factor: Kuttapai, the boy-caretaker of Johnny household cum manager of property..(alas...he has only a small role).
Uncool factor: The script/story should take the blame for this. There were many threads in the story, but they remained indifferent and did not give a feeling of joining up in the end also. For eg, the english teacher who develops a soft corner for Johnny, and who also happens to be living besides Johnny's newly purchased villa. Even doctor patient relationship vis a vis Mammoty and Soman has not been dealt with properly. Neither the character of Swami nor DD has been developed.
Music: Sounds good, but it blocked the flow of narrative and that is what pissed deekay.
deekay's version: Johnny the estate owner is in reality a secret agent working for Government of India who uses his estate as a cover for his real work. He follows his brother to bangalore to bust the drug dealers network. Soman is his mentor/boss who visits him to give updates and new assignments. There was scope for this line of story as the movie itself shows Johnny is well read and intelligent..(eg. when he challenges economics professor and states that classifying economies on the basis of capitalist, socialist and mixed is outdated and gives suitable example to illustrate his points)....Swami is the son of some local politician and also patron of the college (that explains his hold in college).....Johnny trains his brother and friends to deal with swami while he himself takes on big daddy DD in the final showdown, after which bobby and his wife return to estate (as they were never interested in studies) and Johnny marries the English teacher and is planning on future assignments....
So here ends deekay's first movie review and also how he could have twisted and turned the story.....ha ha he he (evil laugh) (patented one, different from tracer bullet's laugh).
Synopsis: Johnny (Mammotty), is an estate owner in Kerala. His parents were killed when he was 16 year old and his younger brother 2 year old. He adores his younger brother like his own kid and has brought him up single handedly. There is a mysterious visit of actor Soman and Johnny always accompanies him at the end of this visit for a couple of days. Johnny's younger brother Bobby visits his native place along with his friends and has a gala time at home (Bobby is studying in Bangalore). Johnny decides to visit Bangalore and on going there, suddenly plans on joining college (he is 36 years old), to which the principal agrees as the college is filled with ruffians and principal saw Johnny roughing up one such ruffian. The drug mafia has presence in the campus and has already corrupted several youths there including the disappearance and murder an upcoming athlete, and also her coach, who dared to stand in the way of Swami, (the stooge of drug mafia in campus)..Bobby is interested in a girl, who becomes fan of Swami's drugged ice creams and cant stop eating (deekay meant the girl cant stop eating that icecream). This way, Johnny becomes involved in all this and it leads to death of one of bobby's friend, which turns Bobby against his brother ...(what a crap)....in the meantime, mysterious Soman reappears and tells bobby that Johnny is suffering from optical atrophy and is loosing his vision and won't be ever cured of it(Soman is Johnny's Doctor) (this was also the reason why Johnny decided to join college so that he can see his brother till his eyesight lasts)....Burning with remorse, bobby and his friends are on their way to meet Johnny when drug mafia stops them and assaults them...In retaliation, Johnny tracks down DD's (the drug mafia's) car, but DD was'nt in it. Johnny decides to get his kid bro married to the girl he loves, who by now, has been cured of her ice cream mania by doctors...On the day of marriage, Johnny starts losing his vision and Bobby is killed by the drug mafia...a nearly blind Johnny rushes to DD's adda and turns completely blinds there. In the end, a fully blind Johnny kills DD and drives his mobike into a no-entry zone and falls off into a valley .Deekay thinks even now, after so many years of this movie being released, Mammokka should be having the same feeling (of driving his car or bike into a valley), if he ever dares to watch this movie again.
Cool factor: Kuttapai, the boy-caretaker of Johnny household cum manager of property..(alas...he has only a small role).
Uncool factor: The script/story should take the blame for this. There were many threads in the story, but they remained indifferent and did not give a feeling of joining up in the end also. For eg, the english teacher who develops a soft corner for Johnny, and who also happens to be living besides Johnny's newly purchased villa. Even doctor patient relationship vis a vis Mammoty and Soman has not been dealt with properly. Neither the character of Swami nor DD has been developed.
Music: Sounds good, but it blocked the flow of narrative and that is what pissed deekay.
deekay's version: Johnny the estate owner is in reality a secret agent working for Government of India who uses his estate as a cover for his real work. He follows his brother to bangalore to bust the drug dealers network. Soman is his mentor/boss who visits him to give updates and new assignments. There was scope for this line of story as the movie itself shows Johnny is well read and intelligent..(eg. when he challenges economics professor and states that classifying economies on the basis of capitalist, socialist and mixed is outdated and gives suitable example to illustrate his points)....Swami is the son of some local politician and also patron of the college (that explains his hold in college).....Johnny trains his brother and friends to deal with swami while he himself takes on big daddy DD in the final showdown, after which bobby and his wife return to estate (as they were never interested in studies) and Johnny marries the English teacher and is planning on future assignments....
So here ends deekay's first movie review and also how he could have twisted and turned the story.....ha ha he he (evil laugh) (patented one, different from tracer bullet's laugh).
2 comments:
Mr. Deekay, I consider it my privilege to read this review of yours on the movie, before eventually stumbling upon it and committing hours of my precious time. Though I still worry I may end up doing so given my rather unreliable memory (oldage). I do agree with your belief that Mammokka would drive his car/bike into a valley should he watch this movie again. Good for him that he is busy with so many good movies now a days.
the story told by u z much better than the original one.....:)
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