Robinhood -Review

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Producer : P.K.Muralidharan and Santha Murali
Director : Joshiy
Cast : Prithviraj, Narain, Bhavana
Music : M.Jayachandran



Hit-maker Joshiy comes up with a very youthful kind of action flick, which is very much likely to work well with the youth as well as the family audience. And it’s interesting to note that the makers have given the catch-line for the film as ‘Prince of Thieves’, reminding us of the Kevin Costner film too, with which it of course bears no resemblance.



‘Robinnhood’ tells the story of Venkitesh Iyer alias Venky (Prithviraj), who teaches physics in a coaching centre by the day and robs ATM’s by night. His kind of thieving is rather hi-tech; he gets everything pertaining to accounts in a particular bank, the IBI bank, and that includes the 16-digit code on ATM cards and the secret PIN code too. And then he makes fake ATM cards using mobile recharge coupons. The police, led by a young ACP (Jayasurya), are investigating the case, but Nandakumar Menon (Biju Menon), who is the executive-director of the IBI bank, brings in a private investigator, the young Alexander Felix (Narain). Felix does his investigation staying in the bank’s guest house, which is in fact a flat adjacent to that of Venky. Roopa (Bhavana), who is the systems head for the bank in Mumbai, joins Felix as an assistant in his investigation. Soon Venky, Felix and Roopa become close friends. Felix however feels that the person behind the ATM robbery is a Robin Hood kind of guy with some justifications to his doing and also begins to feel that there’s something fishy about Venky.



The film should not in any way be compared to the trendy films that are being made in Hindi or Tamil (let’s forget Hollywood). But as a film that has been made in Malayalam and with a budget that suits a Malayalam movie, ‘Robinnhood’ is an acceptable kind of entertainer that could appeal to at least some section of the youth and the family audience as well. It’s not an utterly bad film.