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Best Actor Review

Best Actor is a Super Hit!! 

Debutant director Martin Prakkat’s Best Actor is about a school teacher, who wants to become a film actor.
He has to go through hardships and some shameful treatments, just like any other wannabe actor, but things really go out of hand when he joins a goonda gang to earn some ‘original experience’. Well, it is a nice and simple story but the problem here is that it too predictable and lacks the fizz to a great extent. 

Mohan (Mammootty) teaches in a school, but dreams about getting into films. He approaches several filmmakers for a role, without any success. His wife Savitri (Sruthi Ramakrishna) and their son, is confident about his credentials and always support him, in his attempts to get a break. 

There is an inherent sincerity about the film, which is to be appreciated. Mammootty has given his heart and soul to his character, of a person who is never a conventional ‘macho-hero’. It is amazing that an actor of his experience and stature could handle the role in such an understated manner. But the film takes too much time in its narration and things often get painfully slow at several occasions. 

Lal, Nedumudi Venu, Salim Kumar and Vinayakan are part of a criminal gang and the story gets some pace with their entry. The four make the whole atmosphere quite lively with their mannerisms and the peculiar ‘Kochi slang’. They pep up the scenes with some witty one-liners initially, but soon after some of those dialogues get unacceptably vulgar.

The story often moves ahead without a definite direction right from the beginning and the lack of an interesting script is evident mostly. The highly conventional way that the film unfurls also tends to be a letdown. Some of the scenes and even dialogues have been inspired from yesteryear films in the genre. 

The visuals are good and the music is just about okay. Sreenivasan has a brief role as a film director and some of the mainstream filmmakers from Malayalam like Lal Jose, Ranjith and Blessy among others also appear in the film which gives some kind of believability to the storyline. The rest of the cast, including Kannada actor Sruthi Ramakrishna, has performed pretty fine

However, Best actor is in full swing and it is sure that it will become a Megahit of Megastar Mammootty.

Mammootty to launch Best Actor audio

The audio of Mammootty's Best Actor will be released by the mega star himself in Kozhikode.

Mammootty is coming directly from Mysore, from the location of his Kannada flick Shikkar, and the function will be taking place at Kadavu Resort. 

The road show conducted by Best Actorteam for the promotion will also reach Kozhikode on the same day.
 
The unique promo show has already become the talk of the town. 

The show had completed the first round through all the major towns in Kerala. Mammootty flagged off the road show two weeks back in Trivandrum.

Mammootty's Best Actor releasing next month

Malayalam film Best Actor, featuring Malayalam megastar Mammootty, has completed its shooting. Mammootty will be seen in two different get ups in this film.


The actor will be seen as a village school teacher in the first half, and then an aspiring actor in the second half. Shruthi Ramakrishnna will play the female lead role in the film.


Best Actor is produced by Noushad under the Big Screen banner and directed by fashion photographer turned director Martin Prakkat. Filmmaker Lal Jose will make a special appearance. The film will also feature actors like Bijukuttan, K P A C Lalitha, Salimkumar and Nedumudi Venu. It is expected to hit the theatres next month.

Mammootty changes priority

Mammootty who had earlier announced that his Martin Prakkat film Best Actor, would be his Ramzan (September 10) release, has now pushed it to October 15.

However the actor will have a Ramzan release and it will be Ranjith’s Pranchiyettan and the Saint.

Ranjith and Mammootty team has always come out with something different. Now after the critically acclaimed Palery Manickyam, the pair is back. Mammootty would play a rice merchant Francis (Pranchiyettan) from Trichur, while Innocent will appear as the Saint.

Ranjith’s Pranchiyettan and the Saint is said to be a film with lot of black humor and a satire. The shoot of the film planned as a “quickie” would start in the first week of July in Trichur and completed in a single schedule.

Mammootty’s Play House is distributing both Pranchiyettan and the Saintreleasing on September 10 and Best Actor scheduled for release on October 15. 

Mammootty becomes ‘Best Actor’

Mammootty is giving breaks to a lot of new directors “who have ideas that can make a hit”. His new director is Martin Prakkat, fashion photographer who does great portfolios for the leading women magazine ‘Vanitha’.

During one of his journalistic assignments he met Mammootty and struck a friendship with the actor which led to him becoming director of a Mammootty film. The star was impressed by his script about a UP school teacher who wants to be a film actor!

So Mammootty asked his right hand man Anto Joseph and Naushad, to produce Martin’s film which has been titled Best Actor. The film is said to be an emotional at the same time rocking comedy entertainer. Kannada actress Sruthi Ramakrishnan is Mammootty heroine in the film.

Along with Mammootty there is strong supporting cast headed by Lal, Nedumudi Venu, Salim Kumar, Vinayagan and a special cameo by the comedy king Suraj Venjaranmoodu!

Old timer Ajay Vincent is the cameraman, Don Max the editor, and Bijibal provides music. The film is produced by Anto Joseph and Naushad under the banner of Big Screen, which last produced the hit Chattambinadu. Best Actorwill be distributed by Play House and will be Mammootty’s Ramzan release.