Robinhood is time pass

reviewed by nikhimenon@gmail.com

Move over the disastrous 'Lollypop' ,the so called 'youth team' (though except Prithviraaj,the rest of the cast may be in the early thirtees) is back with Robinhood,their maiden outing with the veteran Joshiy.The promos reminded of Yashraaj's Dhoom series with Prithviraj,fresh from the success of Puthya Mukham fitting into the shoes of Hrithik Roshan.(though honestly i dint find Dhoom 2 much intersting as it had only a cock and bull story to say).So does Robinhood and his team manage to entertain the audience?.The answer is that Robinhood is a good one time watch if mindless entertainment is what you are looking for.

The story is about a hi-tech thief  Venki (specialised in robbing ATM'S) who is an I.I.T graduate and a former employee of a new generation bank.Ofcourse there is the mandatory back story justifying the robber's deeds and his transformation from a honest employee to a harcore criminal.(Honestly those sequences reminded me of the umpteen number of Udhay Krishnan-Sibi Thomas-Dileep revenge movies..!)There is ACP jayasurya as well as Private detective Narein(he has some fancy Christian name in the movie,oops i forgot it...)after him.How he manages to go on with his robbery without being caught forms the rest of the story.Biju Menon plays the chairman of the bank which is looted all the time by Robbinhood aka venki.No movie is complete without beautiful chicks playing female leads who pops up every now and then to give company to the hero while he is dancing away to glory in some east asian Beaches or foreign highways.So you have Bhavana playing Rupa and Samvrutha playing Abhi.(For a change,Prithvi Raaj has chosen Cochin's own Ramada resort to dance with his heroines.)M.jayachandran has tuned some mediocre songs as well for them to dance.

Well, the story is routine stuff with a not so great screenplay as well.It's an illogical one with lots of loopholes in the script.But what works in favour of the movie is it's presentation and it's unexpected twist in the climax.You may blame it as all style and less substance,but as long as it manage to entertain you,should you really care?The story drags big time in the early part of the second half .But the latter half is full of twists and culminates in a decent climax.Joshiy seems to be in the Abbas Mustaan mode and it looks as if Joshiy and co had so many hindi movies by the duo as the reference point. There are only two fight sequences in the movie and that too un-wanted and fails to make much of an impact.Salim Kumar and Jaffer idukki pops up in the first half with some double meaning dialogues and disappear all on a sudden.

Coming to the performances ,for prithviraaj ,the role was an extension of what he had done in Puthya Mukham.He looked hot and stylish.Narein went overboard in so many scenes and his character as a womaniser was not well etched out.Jayasurya was adequate and so was Biju Menon as the Villain.Bhavana looked glamorous,exactly what she was asked to do.I still can't figure out where did Samvrutha go all on a sudden after a duet with Prithvi Raaj.May be,Joshiy might have fired her for not performing well in that song sequence.Editing was okay,the cinematography was passable with most of the scenes shot inside a flat and the outdoors are mostly in Ramada resort.

On the whole Robinhood is a mindless entertainer.Go to the movie hall leaving behind your brain at your homes and there is every possibility that you come out satisfied.

Verdict: Time pass/ average.