Films often loose their feel and
completeness when dubbed to other languages. Dubbed films lacks something even
if the dubbing part is done with reasonable perfection. If you are ready to
accept this fact, you will find Janatha Garage, a Malayalam film dubbed from
Telugu a decent watch. Even though the story does not have any freshness or
suspense in it, the film is a mass entertainer with heroism, action, dance and
familysentiments in it.The story revolves around Janatha Garage, a mechanic
shop and a family surrounding it. This family is headed by Sathya and has his
wife, brother Siva and son Rahul along with Sathya's close group as members of
the garage. Janatha Garage is a car workshop at the first look but it is much
more than that as anyone who needs help and is in distress can approach them
for support. Film shows how the family gets on with the business with Anand, an
Environment and nature lover also joining the party.What you expect from a mass
movie is there aplenty here. Forgetting the logic part and some questionable
things that happen later on, Janatha Garage is a watchable film even though
seeing some Telugu speaking actors speaking in Malayalam was creating an odd
feel. As said earlier, if we are to forgive and accept the dubbing side of the
film, Janatha Garage is a decent mass movie which I found enjoyable. Infact
this is one film that has done a pretty good work on the dubbing part when
compared to some other films dubbed into our language.I was expecting another
Jilla where Mohanlal would be sidelined giving more prominence for Junior NTR.
But Janatha Garage proved me wrong. Unlike Jilla, where he was completely
sidelined after Vijay takes over that disappointed everyone of his fans back in
Kerala, Janatha Garage has given ample opportunity to the actor as per the
demands of a mass movie with a powerful character that doesn't gets forgotten
after the arrival of another actor. Infact the pre-intermission portion is more
focused on the character of Sathya and even after Junior NTR explode in the
second half with action and heroism, Sathya is very much in the scheme of
things and Mohanlal gets his due share of screen presence.As far as the acting
goes, its not that easy to judge when it is a dubbed film. Still I feel he has
done hisjob in each and every scene he was part of. His voice dubbed by himself
to Malayalam was also good. I am watching Junior NTR on the big screen for the
first time and I am impressed with his action and dance. People who have
already seen him in Telugu films will find it hard to digest his voice in
Malayalam but leaving that part aside, he has a commendable screen presence
overall.There is Mollywood connection on the supporting actors side as we have
lot of familiar faces like Unni Mukundan, Rahman, Nithya Menon, Sithara and
Devayani all doing important roles quite well. Unni Mukundan plays Rahul, son
of Sathya and he is a baddie who always goes against the wishes of his noble
father. The film might open up and give him a chance to do more roles from
other south Indian languages. Aashish Vidyarthi gets nothing toperform while
Bollywood actor Sachin Khadekar plays one of the antagonist character.None of
the female characters have any importance and are just casted for namesake, be
itSamantha or Nithya. While the former has an appearance in one of the songs,
the latter has nothing on that front. Kajal Aggarwal appears in anitem song and
vanishes from the scene. Songs are peppy and foot tapping ones that are good to
watch on screen along with their dance visuals. Duration of more than two and a
half hours is slightly on the higher side as the film has an extended second
half that needed some fine tuning. Cinematography was okay.Director Koratala Siva
has added the right ingredients required for a mass entertainer. I thinkthe
original Telugu film would do a good business looking at the overall packaging.
Being a dubbed film, Malayali audience might have some inhibitions to watch the
film but considering the presence of Mohanlal in a decent role, I would say you
can head in to watch Janatha Garage, a film for the masses with the right
combination of flavours added in it to make it watchable.
Verdict:it’s
a mass masala entertainer.watch it for mohanlal
Rating
- 3 / 5
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