The infusion of new blood is an exciting thing, and we are getting that in torrents in the Malayalam film industry these days. But, unfortunately, they don’t bring much innovation or ingenuity to the film scene.
This week we saw the début of Lal Jr, son of producer-director-actor Lal. He has written and directed Honey Bee, which is pretty much in the style of predecessors Siddique-Lal with plenty of gags but bereft of any depth or thought.
Honey Bee has a wafer-thinplot. Sebastian or Seban (Asif Ali) and Angel (Bhavana), the director and the lead performer respectively of a dance troupe come to realise that they are in love the night before Angel is getting married to a police officer.
They elope with the support of their friends Abu (Sreenadh Bhasi), Fernando (Baburaj), Ambro (Balu) and Sara (Archana Kavi). The problem is that Angel's brothers are well known thugs who will not take anything lying down and resort to violence at the drop of a hat.
Three-fourths of the film is devoted to this group running from Angel's brother led by Michael (Lal).
The weight of carrying the flimsy plot is on the shoulders of Baburaj and Bhasi who are made to mouth one-liners
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