Bheeshma Parvam : Mammooty rocks in repetitive family feud saga

 

Bheeshma Parvam 's saving grace is Mammooty who through his sheer screen presence makes full use of the space given to him in a story that is as old as Cinema. His measured dialogue delivery, the gaze and the swagger just makes you forget that the film is a bad cocktail mix of Godfather and Mahabharata.

Storyline is about a Micheal who heads a large family of his and his dead elder brother. Enemies in form of kith and kin who dislike his bossiness and how he tackles them. Here a different take is that he is aging and it is his intimidating figure that works more than his physical strength. Amal Neerad long list of actors have all a role to play. Among them is Shine Tom and Shoubin who have the meaty roles and they just score.

All the usual Amal film's technical standard elements are in play and this time it is cinematographer ( Anand C Chandran) who excels. The action scenes are a testimony to that.  BGM was a bit too loud .

Amal Neerad has pulled it off this time with his predictable story telling as he had a Mammooty to take the audience mind away from the repetitive way but it is time that he changed tracks and came up with something different. For Mammooty too this genre of film from him has not come in recent times and so looked a new fare.