Treated my day off with a Malayalam movie at Roopam with V and Ash - VINODAYATRA starring Dileep and Meera Jasmine in the lead. We had been planning since last week to watch it but a late shift at work meant I couldnt slip out for the 6.30 pm show.
Director Sathyan Anthikad has lost his penchant for classic comedies set in rural backgrounds. So this was just another run-of-the-mill kind of Malayalam movie but with some good songs and in an idyllic location. I think it was set in Munnar (going by the acknowledgements at the beginning) though the places referred to are Challissery and the Mangalam dam in Palakkad district. Mukesh, who plays an upright engineer in the Irrigation dept., makes a pathetic attempt at comedy. I think Srinivasan would have suited the role better. The Tamil actress who plays his wife is ravishing. Heroine Meera appears only half way through the movie as an engineering dropout who has her family's burden on her young shoulders.
The story is essentially that of Dileep's transformation from an irresponsible, happy-go-lucky youth to a mature guy during his sojourn at his brother-in-law Mukesh's place. Dileep continues to entertain but Innocent's effort at comedy has lost its sheen. The young vagabond who comes to help in his workshop speaks like today's kids - talking mouthfuls that dont make them look like children, rather kids talking like adults.
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Ash sat through the first half but got fidgety in the second half mainly because he was hungry. He consumed 2 packets of Lays, a paperbag of popcorns and orange juice but I guess it was not filling like the idli or omelette that maid makes for him in the evenings. With him bawling for candy, we could not concentrate on the climax of the movie with gay abandon. He was however humming one of the duet songs on our way home.
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