Kulur and writer-director Mridul Nair are not ordinary minds in a scene in the WIT principalвЂ™s office in which a teacher (Aju Varghese) gets Azad to take off his skullcap while having no problem whatsoever with a turbanned Sikh standing just inches away. Early on we get a hint that writer Ramakrishna J. Is it this teamвЂ™s contention that the filmвЂ™s primary audience (read: Malayalis) understands Hindi and not basic English? Really? Anoop Menon, on the other hand, gives a stilted performance as AnanyaвЂ™s lawyer Dad.Д«.Tech inexplicably has Malayalam subtitles embedded in the print for English dialogues but not for Hindi dialogues. Arjun Ashokan is especially sweet and gets us emotionally involved with his Azad. The acting by the youngsters and Lopez is fair enough. The top-notch cinematography by Manoj Kumar Khatoi and overall polished packaging matter little in such a scenario. The entire pre-interval portion is devoted to familiar antics that are very occasionally funny, but mostly not. Just to prove how with-it they are, Nissar is called Puffs, Puffs leers at the neighbourвЂ™s wifeвЂ™s and daughtersвЂ™ panties hanging on a clothes line, and a bottle of hard liquor is called Sunny Leone. He gels with them despite being a first-year student and evidently earnest about his studies.ДЄzadвЂ™s arrival notwithstanding, this is a plot filled with generic characters in a generic setting who are even given a generic song, Ore nila ore veyil, through which they ride around the city on motorbikes looking generically cool. Image from Twitter.Д®nter: Azad Mohammed (Arjun Ashokan), a virtuous child from Payannur. She is perennially angry with him and he is constantly inconsiderate towards her, but well, a heroвЂ™s gotta have a girlfriend, yвЂ™know.ДЄsif Ali and Aparna Balamurli in B Tech. AnandвЂ™s girlfriend Priya (Aparna Balamurali) is not a no-hoper like the rest. They hang out at Fathima CafГ© whose owner Syed Ali Kuttiparambil (Alencier Ley Lopez) dotes on these freeloaders. He and his gang of layabouts make the situation worse for themselves by doing nothing about it.ДЄnand is the de facto head of the group that includes fellow students JoJo (Sreenath Bhasi) and Nissar Ahamed (Deepak Parambol), unemployed alumnus Prashanth Puthenveetil (Saiju Kurup) and the token woman, Ananya Vishwanathan (Niranjana Anoop). Engineering institutes are a dime a dozen in the city and, as he puts it, there are more engineers in this country than there are mosquitoes. Mridul Nair must explain why he chose to devote almost two-thirds of his film to goings-on as old as the hills in Malayalam cinema, when the sharp and politically relevant crux of B.Tech lies in the subsequent one-third.ДЄsif Ali in B.Tech plays Anand Subrahmanyam, an angst-ridden student of BangaloreвЂ™s Wisdom Institute of Technology (WIT), who is now in his eighth year in college. Well past the halfway mark in B.Tech, just as I was about to google real estate prices in Uttarakhand and Himachal вЂ¦ boom! вЂ¦ something happened to draw attention back to the events unfolding on screen.

If I have to watch one more Malayalam film set in an engineering college where students вЂ“ mostly men вЂ“ skip classes, get into fights with rivals, mistreat teachers, ogle women and while away their time drinking, even as the director chronicles their lives with indulgent affection, I might retire into a hut in the Himalayas.

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