The highly script conscious Dileep has faltered in his own home production CID Moosa which is one royal dump charade, and has no basic plot or storyline. Over the years, spoofs on Bond films have been dime a dozen. Right from Casino Royale (1967) to the Austin Powers series the slick secret agent has been lampooned with varying degrees of success. Now our comic superstar Dileep is a bumbling private detective here and tries hard to make us laugh. In sum CID Moosas antics leave the viewer neither shaken nor stirred!

Moolamkuziyil Sahadevan (Dileep) is the son a police constable (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) in the dog squad. Sahadevan has only one ambition and that is to join the police department and for that he has cleared the exams and is waiting for the physical test. But he has an enemy in his brother-in-law Peethambaran (Jagathy Sreekumar) who does not like him. Along with the police commissioner (Ashish Vidyarthi), Peetambaran sees that Sahadevan does not clear his physical test (!!)

But Sahadevan does not give up and becomes a private detective and calls himself CID Moosa! He has Arjun, a smart dog who was condemned for mercy killing by the police dog squad and a funky car that sprays chilli powder and throws marbles to assist him. Moosas mission is to save the life of Kerala Chief Minister (Murali) who is under death threat from a group of terrorists (!!!). Moosa has a lover Meena (Bhavana) who is a Gujarati girl.

Dileep and his debutant director Johnny have borrowed bits and shards from various Hollywood comedies like K- 9, Police Academy and Austin Power series along with Spiderman and Superman costumes to bring children to the theatre. Added to that he has liberally helped himself to borrow certain scenes from Shahrukh Khans Baadshah, to make a kitchidi of a film. The major problem with CID Moosa is that Dileep is unsure whether to be a mocking secret agent or to be an action hero! There are many continuity lapses in the narration and the screenplay is strictly baloney. The heroine, Bhavana is a major letdown as she lacks glamour to go with the role and even Jagathy Sreekumar hams, while less said about the supporting cast the better (What is Salim Kumar doing in the film?). Vidyasagars music is very average.

On the whole, the adventures of CID Moosa are crammed with childish gags, puerile pranks and toilet humour, which may go down with the Kerala audience who are no-holds-barred crass comedy addicts.

Verdict: Crass Comedy

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