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Now a days, films are becoming “projects”. First fixes the Actor, director and writer. Story, script etc are not necessarily needed. The latest example is Mammootty-Padmakumar-TA Rassaq team’s Parunthu. When we watch the film, it is clearly evident that TA Rassaq didnt write anything for the film. This team’s project had changed the story two or three times, atlast they chose the basic idea of Devasuram and Vargam.

Devasuram, Vargam.. and now Parunthu. All the three films are based on the same storyline. But there is a big difference. First two films had a good script and fresh treatment. Parunthu lacks both these aspects. The only plus point in the film is the character buildup of Parunthu Purushu (Mammootty) in the first half. It was refreshing to see one of our superstars doing a negative role after many years. Everything else in the film misfired. The negative touch is removed in the second half for the sake of commercial viabilities. Jayasurya did a role which could have been avoided by him, considering his current market value in malayalam cinema.

The dance sequence of Mammooty in the song was really unwanted. Padmakumar’s intention with that song is still a mystery. Purushu’s transformation was very quick and was not convincing. Two songs in the film were unwanted and misplaced. Again the cliched sequences in the climax, regarding the end of villain.

TA Rassaq seems to have forgotten even basics of script writing, according to the climax of the film. Padmakumar’s directional skills were visible in some of the scenes. But as a whole it was not upto mark.

Rating 3.5/10

The film deals with the relationship of a group of young IT professionals. Kamal has chosen simple way to narrate the modern age youngsters’ changing life style and outlook of life. The script is an above average one, but it has succeeded to give good characterization to the leading characters. There is nothing innovative in the film. Deals with friendship, love and separation.

Abhi(Narain) and Charulatha(Meera) are love birds. Mani Kunju(Jayasurya) has a soft corner of the quick witted Rose Mary(Roma). The story mainly revolves around these pairs. Sidharth (Indrajith) and Mumtaz(Samvrutha) are married couples. Kalyani(Radhika) is also a member in this friendship gang.

The songs tuned by Bijipal is just average and does not have the usual Kamal touch.

The humour in the film is purely situational and there is no Vadivelu - Vivek(Suraj- Salim Kumar) for satisfying first day audience. Narain’s performance was an average one and his character does not have complicated situations. Jayasurya has improved in the last two years and he was good with his natural performance. Meera can never be blamed for repetition, and she did justice to her character. Roma also did a good job.

In short Minnaminnikoottam is a soft feel good movie.

Rating: 6.5/10

Innathe Chintha Vishayam tries to bring some general problems of married life onto the silver screen. Sathyan Anthicaud tries to tell a story of three families with the above mentioned theme. Muralikrishnan -Treesa (Mukesh & Sukanya), Noushad - Rehna (Ashokan & Muthumani) and Peethambaran - Prameela (Vijayaraghavan & Mohini) are the three couples whose married lives are in trouble. These three fmilies face three different problems. Gopa Kumar(Mohanlal) buys Muralikrishnan’s house but he couldn’t occupy the house since the owner’s wife Treesa is living there with her child. Gopa Kumar tries to re -unite the couples to get his newly bought house. His efforts for re-uniting the three couples form the rest of the story.

Sathyan’s theme is relevant on considering today’s society. But he fails to create a good script out of this theme. After his first scripting attempt in Rasathanthram, Sathyan had shown some improvement in Vinodayathra. But the script of Innathe Chintha vishayam is the worst one from him. His directional skills jois the sequences and give life for the situations. Gopakumar’s attempt for re-uniting his house owner’s family can be justified but Sathyan couldn’t find any reason why Gopakumar has decided to re-unite all the three couples. Audience might have thanked him for not bringing in more broke-up friends of the couples.

In performance wise, Mohanlal has nothing much to do in such a congested script. But he has succeeded in reminding us about his previous films with Sathyan. Meera Jamine’s Kamala comes in because of the necessity of a heroine. She had to help Gopakumar in his re-uniting project. The songs and majority of the scenes in this film are just rehashing of that of Sathyan’s previous films. The songs picturisation style is outdated, especially that of “kando kando”. Sathyan made his hero to sing and dance to make the gloomy heroine happy.

Sathyan films generally have a message for the society. He has succeeded in giving the message very effectively through his films like Manasinakkare, Vinodayathra etc. But here, he makes the hero to mouth all the messages and advice to the viewers. Especially the second half and climax scenes were like a seminar session. In short, Innathe Chintha Vishayam is a half baked cake, which doesn’t have a soul.

Rating 5/10.