Love 24X7 Review

Popular actor Dileep is making his career to go through a whole new path now-a-days. Some failure made him think deep about his selection of films and the result of that mindful thought was doing him very good indeed. The first step of it was the film Chandrettan Evideya by Sidharth Bharathan and the success it had got. Then the next step of him to commit the film Love 24×7 which is not at all a usual Dileep film but a film in which Dileep’s talent fits in. The much waited Dileep starrer film directed by debutant female director Sreebala K Menon had released today all over Kerala.

Sreebala K Menon was the associate director of Sathyan Anthikkad and she had worked with Dileep while Sathyan Anthikkad was doing Vinodayathra. This film Love 24×7 was financed by Dileep himself in association with Mukesh R Mehta under Grand Productions and E4 Entertainments. The flick has been written by the director herself and introduces a new heroine to Mollywood named Nikhila Vimal who had earlier acted in a supporting actress role in film like Bhagya Devatha.

The story of Love 24×7 takes place in and around media and media people’s life. We can see an honest attempt to porteay the life and struggles of people works in our popular medias. They too have their problems and sometimes has to act against their own will and personal satisfaction to keep things going in their profession as well as in their personal life. This flick focuses mainly on the life of two characters named Roopesh Nambiar and Kabani enacted by Dileep and Nikhila Vimal. Their love affair forms a major part of the narration of the first half. Then it becomes a lot more serious with the problems faced by the workers of media persons and also about the competition in the media field. The characters played by Suhasini and Sasi Kumar named Sarayu and Satheesh also has a key role in the moving forward of the story. It also discusses about the priorities in relationship of different people.

Sreebala K Menon seems to be in control from the very beginning of the story and she never loses the grip on the way things are going. It was she is the star of the film really as the screenplay written by her also has enough depth as well elements to entertain you. The realistic way of telling the story is nicely blended with the entertaining aspect of the film by the director. The music by Bijipal is soulful and really suits the way of story- telling by Sreebala K Menon. Sameer Haq’s cinematography needs a clap as his frames was just superb and really it was complimenting each and every minute aspects of the story very well.

Dileep has given one of his best performances in this flick and it is very nice to see him in his matured avatar. Nikhila had made her debut memorable with actors like Sreenivasan, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Suhasini and Sasi Kumar who always does their parts to perfection without any chance of questioning it. The artist who needs special mention is Manju Pillai who gave a superb little show as the mother of Kabani. But the pace of the film sometimes drops drastically and it may irritate the audience specially the younger ones who needs a far more pace to get immersed in the perception of a story.

Love 24×7 is feel good entertainer with some honest presentation of of the life of media workers. This will be a film for those who love to see films which are close to real life situations. It may or may not attract youth but will surely a decent film for the family this season.

Director : Sreebala K Menon
Release Date : 18/7/2015
Cast : Dileep, Nikhila Vimal

Review : Harikrishnan