Mollywood disaster movie

Dam 999 (2011)
In spite of having a band of renowned award winning film makers in the crew and many accolades to boast, the producers actually lost money making this movie. Before even hitting the silver screen, the movie industry fraternity gave threat their choice of actors and even a court injunction was out to ban its screening. Even though the movie is supposed to highlight the danger of dams and was dedicated to the 1/4 million people who perished in China dam mishap in 1975, the governments of Tamil Nadu and Kerala thought that it would ignite the age old water squabble between the two states. The 999 in the title refers to the 9th September 2009 and it was supposed to depict nine types of human emotions.

Vimala Raman - a sight for sore eye

Unfortunately, I failed to appreciate these 9 emotions in this film. Perhaps it was the language in which I was watching, Tamil. This film actually comes in four languages, the original Malayalam, the dubbed Tamil, dubbed Hindi and dubbed English. To a certain extent, all the films are dubbed as the cast is a international type - Americans, Pakistani, Bollywood and Mollywood.

Special EFX

The props in the set look very impressive and the cinematography shows leaps of improvement from the usual fare that is churned out from the sub-continent.
Unfortunately, the movie tries to cover too many things here. They try to highlight advanced nature of Ayurvedic treatment, the advanced nature of Indian astronomic calculations, the corrupt politicians and of course the dangers of a mammoth man made dam all in 1 hour and a half.
Except for Rajit Kapoor, Vimala Raman and Ashish Vidyarthi, the rest of the actors did not really impress on the acting faculty.