Titans
Fantasy Comedy Thriller Malayalam
Small-time gangster Antony Yakuza teams up with young programmer Anwar to pull off a major heist, with mysterious driver Rejimon joining them. But Rejimon is not who he seems, and their simple crime soon turns into a strange, unpredictable journey where reality itself begins to blur.
| Cast: | Jayasurya, Vinayakan, Adam Sabiq, Baby Jean, Bhagath Manuel, Sunny Wayne, Indrans, Manikandan Achari, Suresh Krishna, Nihal Nizam, Shejeer P Basheer |
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| Director: | Prince Joy |
| Writer: | James Sebastian |
| Editor: | Shameer Muhammed |
| Camera: | Vishnu Sarma |
All Guild Reviews of "Titans"
Earnest Fantasy Left Behind by Familiar Comedy
The film’s simple but lovely conceit —involving angels and demons — is let down by the makers’ need to double down on ‘Aadu’-style juvenile comedy
In director Prince Joy’s Titans, there’s an earnest effort to make us rethink the way we imagine mystical concepts that feel larger than us. In a clip from the teaser that went viral, we see the character played by Jayasurya ask another person if the character played by Vinayakan can be trusted. “Does he look like someone who smokes or does drugs?” is the rhetorical question, as the camera cuts to a close-up of Vinayakan smiling innocently. It’s an easy laugh that plays on our stereotypes of what a smoker or an alcoholic looks like, made funnier by the real-life incidents that contributed to Vinayakan’s infamy.
Occasionally Fun, but Lost in Fantasy
Jayasurya and Vinayakan's fantasy entertainer, Titans, has its moments of humour and impressive technical craft, but an undercooked screenplay keeps it from realising its potential
Jayasurya playing a loser is fun. We have seen him ace that part in the Aadu franchise. Antony Yakuza in Titans is cut from almost the same cloth as Shaji Pappan, just more cutthroat. Antony is a small-time thug in Peter’s (Baby Jean) gang, boasting that he was once the right-hand man of Peter’s late father. But now Antony has become a liability to the gang, constantly sneered at and mocked, and rightly so. In his introduction scene, as two gangs are caught in a Mexican standoff, Antony is seen in the last row with a tiny pistol, which he ends up misfiring. The sneering continues.
Jayasurya-Starrer Fails to Utilise a Promising Concept Blending Humour and Fantasy
One of the film’s few positives is that some of the fantasy elements are seamlessly weaved into the story of a man aspiring to be a big-time gangster, that they almost seem believable
Quite a few unusual writing choices can be seen in Prince Joy’s Titans, especially with how it treats its protagonist Antony Yakuza (Jayasurya), a small-time outlaw. Although the hangover of Jayasurya’s Shaji Pappan character from Aadu is very much visible in Antony, he is perhaps one of the most unheroic lead characters in a movie of this kind. In every situation, he is expected to either fail or do the wrong thing and he keeps up with that expectation much of the time. The other interesting approach is in how writer James Sebastian portrays the done-to-death fight between good and evil, going behind the mechanics of how both sides operate, with Lucifer getting a glitzy corporate office and the other side in a location that is a stark contrast. Much of this might have looked great at a conceptual level, but it does not translate that well onto the screen.
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