Bromance

Story: When good-guy Shinto goes missing, his brother goes looking for him. But it seems like he is set not only to find his missing brother, but will also learn about his real personality

If you put together a bunch of popular young actors, you are bound to get some fun comedy, thanks to their chemistry. Bromance works on this principle, but with a weak story.

Shinto (Shyam Mohan) is the perfect son, with his successful career in stock brokering and good behaviour, making his younger brother Binto (Mathew Thomas) the black sheep. But while Binto is enjoying a New Year’s Eve party with his friends in Coorg, he gets an urgent call from Shinto’s friend Shabeer (Arjun Ashokan) in Ernakulam to let him know that Shinto is missing.

When young Binto investigates where his brother might have gone, he pieces together a personality that is very different from the good-guy image that Shinto has conveyed to everyone. He is deep in debt and is also considered a red flag by an old girlfriend Aish (Mahima Nambiar). They rope in the help of a hacker (Sangeeth Pratap) and a goon and loan shark Courier Babu (Kalabhavan Shajon) to look for Shinto, and land up back in Coorg. The man-missing is treated in a fun filled manner with the motley crew bringing their personality quirks to the story.

However, the story and the jokes don’t work all the time and you are faced with quite a few cringe moments. All the actors have a good chemistry, but the characters are not strongly written and could get a bit annoying, like with Mathew’s peculiar rage issue, which is taken over the top. And the second half seems to stretch endlessly.

Govind Vasantha’s music hits the right note for this youthful entertainer; the wedding song and the youth anthem could become a hit. On the whole, this is a film that could click with the youth.