Ride this Cycle and enjoy...

Vineeth Sreenivasan and Vinu Mohan star in "Cycle" directed by Johny Antony and penned by James Albert. Cycle is the story of two youth- Roy (Vineeth) who is a cashier in a finance company run by Kousthuban (Jagathy Sreekumar) and Sanju (Vinu)- a salesman at a home appliances store and an aspiring cricketer. Roy has a soft corner for Annie (Bhama) who works for a travel agency and Meenakshi (Sandhya), daughter of the rick Kousthubhan tries to woo Sanju. Roy has a family consisting of his mother (Sobha Mohan), a good for nothing uncle (Salim Kumar, wasted) and 2 sisters waiting to be married off. Sanju's father (T G Ravi) is a taxi driver who has sacrificed all his savings on his son's cricketing career which is yet to take off. Annie has to take care of her bed ridden father (Murali) and make enough money to educate her brother, Sunny (Arun), an engineering student. In between all these sorrows, Roy and Sanju land across some money on New Year's eve and decide to celebrate the New Year at a Bar with Sunny. Sunny lands up in police custody for having possessed drugs and Roy and Sanju are left with no other option but to rob Kousthubhan's finance company to arrange enough money to release Sunny and to put an end to all their problems. The rest of the film deals with whether or not they are successful in their attempt. Cycle has a very simple story line, but its effect is enhanced by an intelligent script by James Albert. No time is wasted on unnecessary scenes and dialogues. The film moves at a brisk pace and in a couple of scenes, the characters of the protagonists are very well established. The viewer is grabbed by his collar to the world of these happy go lucky lads who land in trouble due to their over ambitiousness. James Albert deserves a pat on his shoulders on having come up with such a marvellous script. It is not a classic like "Classmates" but will definitely find favor among the audience. Vineeth Sreenivasan makes a confident debut as actor and succeeds in obtaining a place in the heart of the audience. Vinu Mohan is a complete natural and has a promising future ahead of him. Sandhya has nothing much to do and Bhama impresses in her brief role. Arun is a star to watch out for in future. Veterans Jagathy, Murali, Saikumar, T G Ravi and Kochin Haneef are in their elements. Photography by Shaji is good and Renjan Abraham's crisp editing add to the film's value. Other technical departments perform a good job as well. However, Mejo Joseph disappoints in the Music department. Anil Panachooran's lyrics lack life, Mejo's music is jarring and the singers (Vineeth, Karthik, Sreenivas, Chitra) fail to add their touch to the songs as well. Barring the music, everything works in the favor of Cycle. It should not be difficult for the movie to ride straight into the audience's hearts!