Street Lights

Streetlights is the first directorial venture for Shamdat Sainudeen, who is more known as a renowned cinematographer. For a film that could have succeeded in making a great story from what it introduced from the very first shot, Street lights fails big time. It was predictable. the transitions from shot to shot was messy and the audience may as well be confused as to what was the story. But amidst all these, Street lights is a breathe of fresh air in Malayalam cinema. An interesting, realistic approach to what many, seldom directors would have made into a short film or nothing. It follows the theme where a necklace is stolen and what that stolen necklace binds together different people from different areas of life. All the performances were great, Mammootty was probably cast to get the marketing attention and all the great acting moments in the film were from stunt Silva. Street lights is more than just your average crime thriller. It is exciting, comedic, has a great soundtrack and more importantly, it is original.

7.1 / 10 :)