Note : I never considered Oscar as the international film award. Its just a prestigious national award.

Best Film : Prediction : Slumdog Millionaire Wish: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Why not Slum dog. As many of my friends suggested, its worth to watch, but not for an Oscar. Though the film is greatly made with high quality photography, editing and screenplay, the story is not refined as,  Why do they characters sometime use Hindi sentences and is the final question worth for a 20million question extra comes to mind after watching the movie.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Prediction : Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Prediction: Kate Winslet for The Reader

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Prediction : Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight Its sure. How else could!

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Prediction : Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler or Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona Note: I haven’t seen Doubt yet.

Best Achievement in Directing: Prediction :Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire . Its worthy! He needs it

Best Adapted Screenplay: Prediction : The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen : WALL·E

It has to get that award. Story, the major factor of WALL-E is so stunning and the way of presentation is brilliant. Also will be a great inspiration for the animation industry.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: WALL·E Wanna bet?

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song: Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar(“Jai Ho”) Do that really owns a Oscar? For one who heard the awesome music of Rahman from his movies like Roja, Minsarakanavu, Bombay and Dilse, this song does get a seat in Best 100 songs of ARR collection.

The film which is designed in a way, as to provide roles for everyone is 100% an entertainer. The film never tried to give equal importance to all by providing equal number of dialogues or same heroine instead it just plotted one to the apt role, even it reminds the old roles performed by them.

As expected the film was never a collection of characters cropped and glued, instead a story is there behind the film, and a wonderful pattern of narration from the Director Joshiy. The film and the narration is centered to Mohanlal, whose performance is awesome as usual. Mammootty, who also shares an important part in the screen also played the role in amazing manner. The man who needs a special applause is Suresh Gopi, who shines again in police uniform that makes the story to a real thriller. Jayaram, Kalabhavan Mani, Dilip, Madhu, Manoj K Jayan, Indrajith, Sidhique, Mukesh, Jagathy, Salim Kumar and Sukumari also had done those small roles in neatly. And some one mainly young stars like Pridviraj, Kunchako, Jayasurya became just dancers for a cameo song by Nayantara. (How to provide that much role, its a question!)

The major part of the film is screen play, dialogues and direction. Though the story contains nothing new, the way of narration without stressing much to super starts and moving through incidence makes it interesting, while the dialogues, specially crafted for the stars, makes the movie a crispy one. And on the case of direction, its done by Joshiy and its a perfect Joshiy movie.

The major drawback seen for the film are two – the poster design is simply manipulation over the I am Legend poster. Cross examine here Twenty20 and I am Legend Can’t you make your own poster?

The second drawback is the three songs, simply bore to hear could be nominated to this years worst music trophy, though the visualization is done is a good manner, and the Nayantara’s pub song, is one among the best ‘such’ song Malayalam ever had.

The movie is simply an entertainer, and has nothing to be new in it.There are certain stunt and some over heroism, still it is fine to watch as a whole movie. And if your are one who celebrates movie watching, enjoys Mohanlal in mundu, Mammootty performing in front of the court and of course get thrilled when Suresh Gopi splashes dialogues with English h words, arrogantly to his superior – this film is one for you. It is never a money loser and surely a mile stone in Malayalam film industry.

Hats off to the makers.