Dear Murali Gopi,
you are a fine writer and a pretty good actor. But why do you exhibit your hirsuteness in every single film you're in? :).
Fahad Fazil who is a vastly superior actor could have taken over the role of the twins. You were simply not charming enough to carry the film on your shoulders. You do have a decent screen presence but your dialog delivery is stilted while your acting is unbearably self conscious. And Shyam Prasad was irritating as hell. Honey Rose was nice eye candy.
Fahad Fazil does have some good scenes but frankly, his role was unnecessary. And the flashback to explain the motivations of his character was an unnecessary diversion from the main plot.
The whole film is unnecessarily complicated and some of the characters and sub-plots could have been done away with. So you did not just fail as an actor, Murali, the writing was bad too.
Part of the background score is lifted from John William's score for JAWS and Bernard Hermann's score for PSYCHO. The background score was another issue - it was too loud at times. I guess the actors could not provide the necessary sparks and special effects through their performances while the dialogs were mostly uninteresting and contrived. So the director/editor had to resort to a mind numbing background score which did seem like a last ditch effort to save this sorry excuse of a film.
1 by TWO is a huge disappointment from Arun Kumar Aravind who had made the entertaining and well-crafted Ee Adutha Kalathu. Murali, you ought to focus on your writing and stay away from acting. And stop showing off your body hair, Murali. Why do you have to display your hirsuteness in every damn film of yours? :) As a hirsute man myself, you are not doing Malayali males any favors.
I am not trying to pull you down, Murali. I am a fan of yours. Ee Adutha Kalathu, which you wrote is one of my favorite Malayalam films of the last five years. I look forward to other films written by you. And starring you (despite this disappointment).
Best Regards, Pimpin.
