Trivandrum Lodge: A Boring and Dull Experience

Theatrical poster for the movie Trivandrum Lodge

For those who suggested that Trivandrum Lodge is a good movie all I got to ask is: Really? It’s a sad movie. Please don’t call it ‘new cinema’ because if talking and thinking about sex is ‘new cinema’ then that cinema is as old as cinema. The love track in the second half seems to be a shoddy patchwork to compensate for a clueless first half.
There is a callous carelessness that is prevalent throughout the script that borders on a lack of concern for the audience. An attitude like “I make cinema for my satisfaction and not for an audience” seems to echo in Trivandrum Lodge.
Trivandrum Lodge might be proof that Malayalam cinema is undergoing a change and if it means that such movies will keep directors like V K Prakash away from directing movies like Police and Gulumal then let more come through. Anoop Menon’s scripting is brilliant in bits and pieces but when put together loses the sheen it creates in individual scenes. 
The first half of Trivandrum Lodge is packed with off-colour humour, suggestive dialogues and double entendres. This gets watered down in the second half more as if to show a different side of love. Trivandrum Lodge seems to be a movie that had its genesis during a drinking session among friends. The tragedy is that it did not stay there and was taken forward and made into a movie.
High point in the movie: the Anoop-Bhavana track, especially ‘Paul Barber’ (from Akkare Akkare Akkare fame).  The real low point in the movie is bringing Thangal (Babu Namboothiri) from Thoovanathumbikal.