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Kannum Kannum (2008)
Family movie
Prasanna is an orphan who is interested in writing poems through a sobriquet . His poems are published in local magazines . He ,very soon realises that some one else shares his thoughts and sensibilities . She is his fan and reads his poems regularly and sends fan mail . They start interacting through letters .
Knowing her details , he goes to Kutralam to search for her . He goes to live with his friend there . The family is headed by Vijay kumar . The friend has 4 sisters. The heroine Udaya is one of the sisters and has gone on all India trip with her friends .
Very soon Prasanna becomes close to this family as he misses having one himself .
They all make him feel at home involving him in day to day activities as a family member . Sadly before Udaya returns back home , her brother dies in a freak accident . He feels guilty as he was driving the scooter . None of the family members hold him responsible and in fact grow closer to him . When Udaya comes back he holds him responsible for her brother's untimely death . She maintains her distance from him . The family affectionately forces him . He stays back in that house to fulfill his friend's responsibilities as their son and brother .
He also manages to get two sisters married to their cousins as per their wish .
One day when Udaya sings her songs in a school program , both realize that they were the ones exchanging letters as both are fans of each others' writings .
From here starts some uneasy relations , confusions and misunderstandings. The family considers him as their brother . He is called to fulfill the maternal uncle's rituals when one sister gives birth to a son .
When Vijay kumar dies , the family forces him to do his funeral rights as his son .
Both of them do not tell their feelings to the family . She keeps stalling marriage much to the her family's puzzlement .
Finally she decides to tell her story to her family much against his wishes . But Prasanna refuses to marry her saying I have more love from your family as a son and a brother . I have become your family member easily .
He leaves her and returns back home .She quietly accepts her fate . She is left with his memories.
Shot in lush locales of Sengottai and Tankasi , its a very quite simple movie with a few characters . No loud songs are included. The side comedy track of Vadivelu is unnecessary and brash . Prasanna reminds us of family heroes like Mohan or Karthik . The heroine Udaya looks very simple and homely . The local dialect is used in a lot of places and is a delight to our ears . Over all a fine family movie .
Sagaram Sakshi (1994)
Family movie
The formula is relevant even today . Mamooty and Sukanya have a love marriage . He has a sound business going on . She is from a rich family herself ,Thilakan being her protective father . Very soon they settle down to domestic bliss and have a cute daughter too .slowly he starts getting losses in his business due to ill judgement . His downfall starts and spreads slowly . Very soon he has to sell off his businesses one by one . His in laws try to help him out time and again . Reclining self respect, heavy ego , helplessness , frustration .. all lead to him having tiffs with those who try to help him out . The family now regales to a small one room house from their big palatial bungalow . Sukanya never complains and tries to adapt herself . He starts drinking and gets into bad company. Sukanya sadly helplessly watches him fall low and low .
The final nail in the coffin comes when his own ex employee comes to partake some drinks with him and tries to molest Sukanya. Realising that he is a hopeless case , she returns back to her father who takes her in without any questions .
He wanders around and becomes an ascetic . The daughter grows up into a beautiful woman . He comes back to their home town . He meets his wife towards the end . This makes for a poignant watch. Both realize that they could have made it work if they had stuck to each other and worked a bit harder . An eye opening movie even today to young families .
Sukanya wears nice sarees to show off her domestic status . She looks good in western and also Indian outfits equally . Mamooty and Thilankan are dependable and need no mention here about their skills . There are no unnecessary songs or comedy track to deviate. A fine family fare .
Mounam Sammadham (1990)
Taunt thriller
Mamooty is a well respected lawyer who is flown down from Delhi to Chennai .
His friend YG Mahendran's brother ( Jayshankar ) is in trouble . He is the suspected killer of his own sister in law .His brother Suresh ( in one of his early small roles ) is unsure about his brother's intention in killing his wife . Jayashankar keeps claiming that he is innocent . He had gone up to her quarters and found her burnt body . A lot of suspects , intentions , their stories come out of the closets .
Mamooty is likable in his first Tamil film role . He interviews a lot of people . Finally Charlie ( the family servant )along with her old lover Appa Haja turn out to be the real culprits. Y Vijaya , Y G Mahendran , Sukumari , Pramila ... all shine in their short side roles. Veteran Nagesh shines as the adorable opposition lawyer in a comic villain role . A couple of unnecessary songs and instances are thrown in to show the love track between Amala and Mammooty . Over all , A family watch .
Veendum (1986)
slow story
Jaysri is the widow of Sukumaran . Pretty nubile she returns back home with a 5 year old daughter widowed as her husband was killed by the under world . Soman comes in a short role as the police investigating this murder . Ratheesh is the under world don. He tries to intimidate Jaysri by hiding in her house . She has a tough time warding him off .
Mamooty introduces as her husbands friend and an investigating officer. He follows her all around much to her frustrations . He tries his best to befriend her daughter. Much of the movie is about how he chases her to get into her good books .
Finally the real culprits are brought to book. As Mamooty is about to leave town, she appears with her daughter willing to share her life with him.
Jaysri looks virginal pristine in white all ways to show her widowed status. Mammooty as usual is a welcome eye candy . Over all a slow movie .
Kadhal Dot Com (2004)
Teen romance .
Prasanna's father wants him to get married to Priya their family friend. Since childhood he wanted to marry his school sweet heart Sandhya . Unknown to him she had died very shortly . He is still not aware of this and keeps trying to meet her . He has a school group pic . He goes to the local photographer to enlarge the image using graphics to see how she looks now .
The photographer has his own motives to show the picture of a girl like Sandhya . This Sandhya is actually a social worker and is about to go aboard to study . The photographer who is her silent lover wants to stop her .
Innocently Prasanna believes that this girl is indeed his old Sandhya . Meanwhile he keeps thwarting his family friend Priya's advances . Sandhya is unable to understand who and why this Prasanna is following her .
The parallel comedy track of Vadivelu is very loud . Nirosha and SV Shekhar as Priya's uncle and TV addicted aunty invoke some laughs . This three some keep crossing each others' paths .To add to the confusion Priya and Sandhya also realise that they had studied together . Both do not know about Prasanna and keep encouraging and praying for each other's love to succeed .
Finally his friends tell him the truth about Sandhya . Heartbroken , he realises that Priya indeed loves him. He settles down with Priya as their families wish. Both the female cast are very simple without much make up .
A soft romantic movie without much heavy songs or drama .
Uyir (2006)
Taunt thriller
The entire movie belongs to Sangeeta.
She lives in a cozy cottage in Ooty with her husband and her 5 year old daughter . Her brother in law Srikanth starts living with them after he finishes his studies. He is job searching .
Very soon she notices his rugged physique and gets drawn to him. Her husband comes to know and is shocked as he always thought of his wife as his brother's mother . Theirs was a love marriage . No way she can cheat on him.
Instead of repenting, she accepts that she is attracted to his brother . Aghast , unable to accept this , he commits suicide the very night . She weaves some silly story about his suicide to the world .
She keeps her act of being a concerned mother and SIL to Srikanth .
Very soon she becomes an innocent grieving widow to every one around .
He believes her story initially and takes up the responsibility left behind by his brother. Parallel he is in love with his college mate - Samvruta . Sangeeta tries every trick in the book to split them all the while maintaining an innocent face. She is so much enamored by her BIL that she burns her own child with hot milk to stop him from going and meeting his love.
Very soon he realises her intentions and starts to maintain his distance . A lot of misunderstandings take place between the lovers.
In the end , when both realise that they cannot get married due to Sangeeta and her own family pressures , Srikanth and Samvruta try to commit suicide . Sangeeta comes as if to pacify them but tries to push them .
Sadly she herself falls down the cliff and dies. The lovers are united finally . They take up the child as their own and start life afresh.
Sangeeta is nubile and perfect as a young scheming widow . She wears low cut short sleeves tops when he is around to entice him. She has a fine figure to carry these clothes .
Srikanth is fine as an affectionate BIL looking for a mother figure and then confused about her intentions , a loyal man of the house taking care of the entire household all the while trying to pacify his own love . Samvruta plays her part well torn between her love .She comes to know about Sangeeta's intentions very soon but is unable to convince Srikanth . Over all fine movie with conflicting emotions . A lot of hummable songs are thrown in .
Sadhu Miranda (2008)
Taunt thriller
Abbas and his brother rob a bank . Abbas then escapes to US with the money while promising his brother that he will be surely back . The movie is all about bringing these brothers to justice by common people like Kavya and Prasanna who lost their family due to these cruel acts .
The role of a simpleton initially suits Prasanna . Its difficult to imagine him turning into a calculative manipulator because of sad circumstances .
He plays a lot of games between Abbas and Kavya as his own father was killed in the bank attack . Kavya's father was also killed by Abbas . A lot of confusions and misunderstandings later the two brothers are killed.
A lot of fine songs between Kavya and Prasanna .
Over all a taunt thriller.
Kasthuri Maan (2005)
family fare
Prasanna reminds us of Karthik in many scenes . He is a diligent and studious son of Sarath Babu - an ex film producer. Today they are in dire needs . The creditors keep pestering him for money often. Prasanna wants to study to become an IAS officer to take his family out of poverty .
His college mate Meera Jasmine keeps lending him money. He is under the impression that she's very rich and spoilt but soon realises that she is a maid in many houses. She also stops her studies to take up more house work .
She has her own poignant poverty ridden story. Her sister and BIL keep visiting often. He has designs on her himself . When Prasanna comes to know this , he changes his opinion about her. The BIL tries to create problems between Meera and Prasanna . A couple of duets later, he goes to Delhi to pursue his dream . Meera endures a lot for his sake including his own sister's taunts.
She keeps supporting her sister and warding off her BIL . Kulappulli Leela comes in a comic villain role as the BIL's mother . She is likable in her short role as a loud rude mother in law. She invokes a of laughs in this serious movie .
In the end, Meera ends up killing her BIL and goes to jail. Prasanna becomes an IAS officer and decides to wait for her for a decade to marry despite his parents pressurizing him .
Over all a fine movie . Sarath Babu invokes a lot of sympathy as some one tied with debts . Meera and Prasanna are more than adequate in their main roles. A couple of fine songs are thrown in .
Muran (2011)
Engaging Thriller
Prasanna is as usual on top as a sleek villain. He manages to tug at our heart strings with his fake sob story . Its about two strangers meeting . Prasanna the spoilt son of a rich father tells some sob story to Cheran who believes every word . Both are unhappy in their own way . Cheran is not happy with his indulgent wife who has scant respect for him and his music . Prasanna is unhappy with his father who is strict and not happy with his sloth filled life style . Prasanna puts forth a proposal that he will kill Cheran's wife who is refusing to divorce him due to her father's condition and property . Then he will be free to start life afresh with his girlfriend Lavayna . In return , he should kill Prasanna's father.
Aghast , Cheran walks out . Very soon he finds his wife dead in some freak accident . Even as he struggles to wriggle out of this sordid drama , he gets sucked in . Soon Cheran finds himself in a web of lies and half stories. He realises that Prasanna is not as innocent as he thought . He has woven a fine false story about his love for his father's secretary and how she committed suicide due to her father . A lot of twists and confusions take place . The truth was that Prasanna himself had violated Linda ( the secretary ) as he wanted to subjugate her . She had thwarted his advances time and again . Cheran realises that Prasanna's father is actually and kind hard working man .
In the end Prasanna dies in a freak fight , Cheran walks out with his loyal friend Lavanya . An engaging movie over all .
Thiruttu Payale 2 (2017)
Family thriller
In both the TP movies 1 and 2 , the wife is never found guilty by the husband . He tries to mend fences with her . This is a positive sign . This movie is all about adultery and infidelity . Here Prasanna is a sleek tech savvy villain . He lures young innocent wives using the social media. Amala Paul is a bored house wife of a police officer who falls prey. She realises her mistake soon after and tries to retract her steps . Sadly , she falls in his trap and keep going deep and deeper. Her husband Bobby sniffs something out , He connects to Prasanna on another level . A lot of twists and turns take place . All three are victims of their circumstances. The paths of all three keep intersecting . Here too like the TP1 movie the director Ganesan comes in a small role as a detective. The technology and social media aspect gets too much at times . Over all an engaging movie in parts .
Veendum Chalikkunna Chakram (1984)
Family formula
A unique ending . A bold attempt of its days . Menaka comes to the city for work . She starts living in a working girls hostel along with her friend Aruna . Her colleague and his friend Mammooty and Shankar become their close friends. They four are usually found together in hotels or beaches . Aruna silently starts liking Mamooty . Shankar likes Menaka but no one speaks their heart out as of now . Menaka's mother has had 2 failed marriages . Menaka does not know her father. Her mother gives her father's photo which she carries in her chain locket always hoping to find him one day .
Mamooty is taken in by her simplicity and speaks his heart out to her . Menaka also reciprocates as she is unaware of Shankar's feelings for her. Aruna swallows her sadness when Menaka happily blurts this out to her . She surpasses her feelings for Mammooty herself .
He takes Menaka to his house to introduce her to his father. He recognizes her as his own daughter . She too recognizes him from her chain locket . That makes Mamooty her step brother. A bold story of its times . A lot of emotional talks take place . After the initial shock , finally happy Aruna gets Mammooty , Shankar gets Menaka. They are a cozy foursome again . A fine movie with nice songs .
Aruna and Menaka wear simple cotton sarees as working women . Worth a watch with the entire family .
Kariyila Kattu Pole (1986)
Taunt thriller
Unexpected ending . All are seasoned actors . Even young Karthika as Mamooty's long lost illegitimate daughter is on top . She shines in her role looking for a father figure . Mamooty the film director is found dead one day . The investigating officer Mohan lal is going around investigating . A lot of interesting suspects and their intentions come to light .
Rahman is cute as a young confused lover .
Jalaja , Unni Mary and Sripriya shine in their roles as his love interests . A lot of twists and turns take place . Mamooty is of course mis understood as Karthika's love interest . He has paternal feelings towards her . Sripriya , Karthika's mother understands this much later .
Makes a thrilling watch.
Naanayam (1983)
Total family fare
Srividya and Madhu are working for the same company . Sadly they are single as they have lost their spouses a few years back . They have a son each . Since they are working together in Srividya's company , they decide to marry to make things simple . Their sons grow up as close brothers always up to pranks and jokes . As grown ups , Mammooty ( Madhu's son ) falls for Seema . Mohanlal is SV's son whose female love interest is Poornima . They face a lot of hurdles in their relations egged on by interfering relatives . A lot of misunderstandings later all becomes well.
Seema looks awkward in her short bob wig but later looks graceful in soft sarees . Poornima looks chirpy in salwars . Seema's mother ( the stereotype of a dominating wife and mum ) Sukumari wears nice soft pastels with sleeveless blouses and is good eye candy . Srividya as usual is a beauty ethereal and shows all expressions with those doleful huge eyes , whether as a young mum of a child or an old concerned matriarch of her unstable family . Mamooty and Mohanlal keep us engaged with their pranks . Over all its a fine family fare .
Aa Neram Alppa Dooram (1985)
Thriller
Mamooty and Seema are happily married with a 4 year old son. Their neighbors Unni Mary and Soman very soon become their family friends thanx to their childhood history together.
Fair and fragile , soft natured Unni Mary is pursued by Sidhique , her ex who insists that she returns back to him. She keeps warding him saying she is now married to police inspector Soman and he should leave her alone. Seema tries to help her by warding off Sidique time and again . Mammooty and Soman are blissfully unaware of all this behind their backs .
Matters come to a head one day . In this squabble , Sidique manages to kill Seema and Unni Mary suffers head injuries. Their son is the only witness to this .
Shaken and broken , Mammooty gets back to his life after mourning period with his son.
They keep trying to catch the culprit and have parade identifications with the child to close this case .
Meanwhile , Sidique tries to kill this child . He does succeed after a few attempts.
In the final scene , Mammooty deliberately refuses to identify Sidhique as the killer when shown by Soman . Instead, he himself goes after him and kills him to extract revenge.
A poignant thriller with great acting .
Oru Mukham Pala Mukham (1983)
Routine family fare
The early 80s saw the last of such family movies. Srividya is the back bone of this movie . She shows all emotions finely - an anxious mother , ruthless conniving aunt , an affectionate sister ... Her brother Mamooty marries a girl much to their father's unhappiness. Srividya has a son and so does her brother Mamooty . As Mamooty dies suspiciously and his wife also dies in a fire ( created by SV ) , she graciously agrees to take care of that child . The entire property is written off ( unknown to her ) by her father to her brother Mamooty's child. The two boys grow up into Ratheesh ( her spoilt nephew growing up in her own house with her ) and
her own son Mohan lal ( who is studying abroad ) .
Ratheesh is spoilt to the core . When Mohanlal returns a lot of confusions take place .SV looks resplendent in Banaras sarees as a rich lady .
The house itself is palatial . The boys soon realise that they are switched at birth. Ratheesh comes to know this when he goes to jail for killing his factory worker . His daughter Seema tries to exact revenge and has to run pillar to post but finally falls in love with a reformed Ratheesh.
One of the early movies of Mohanlal and Mamooty - both manage to leave an impact. Seema and SV both look good in sarees. Tall and pretty , Anuradha comes as the villain's moll wearing mostly short tight dresses.
Finally the two cousins get together . SV dies in a freak fight and all ends well. A couple of nice songs are thrown in . A fine family fare.
Thadakam (1982)
Reincarnation drama.
Seema and Rateesh go to Kashmir for their honeymoon . Usually soft and quite Seema starts behaving strangely and speaks in chaste Hindi. Rateesh is aware that she never spoke one word of Hindi before. As they keep touring scenic places , she keeps changing her behaviour in phases. They consult a local psychiatrist who is also unable to understand her. On one such tours they come across Sumalatha a local Kashmiri boat rider. She recognizes Seema as her close friend . Slowly the story is revealed that Seema was a local Kashmiri girl who was in love with Mamooty her timber estate manager. This was resented by her fiance and Mamooty was killed finally by him . Seema dies due to shock. Now her soul keeps entering the new bride Seema . A lot of fights and twists later Seema is restored as before . She returns back happily with her husband Rateesh. Mamooty comes in a small role but manages to make an impact .
Seema is the back bone of this movie . Looks beautiful as the unsure shy bride initially . Sumalatha looks fresh in her Kashmiri local garb .
Ratheesh is equal to Seema as the confused frustrated husband who is unable to find a cure for his wife .
Over all a fine family fare shot in lush locales of Kashmir . Sad that insurgency hit that beautiful virgin part of our country .
Mangalam Nerunnu (1984)
Heavy family fare.
The movie totally rests on Venu's shoulders. Jilted in love , he keep drifting . A chance brings him to Madhavi - a reluctant prostitute. She has her own poignant story . Mamooty and herself were happily married for a short time. He keeps facing losses in his business when she was carrying .Finally he dies in a road accident leaving her fully drowned in debts. His business friends on the pretext of helping her show her this path of ill repute . She accepts her fate silently for her daughter ( A cute baby Shalini with her trade mark fringe hair style ) . When Venu hears her story he is stuck by her helplessness and adopts her daughter. Madhavi leaves the scene quitely . The child grows up to be pretty girl Shanti Krishna . She falls in love with Sreenath. Venu believes in telling the truth to him when he brings his wedding proposal to him. Sadly he develops cold feet at the thought of marrying the daughter of a prostitute and walks away . The last scene where Shanti tells him that she loves him and does not want to be the reason he is unhappy and unable to face society due to her back ground is very sad , indeed .
Venu shows all emotions finely . He is a consummate actor . Madhavi is svelte and beautiful as a loving wife ,caring mother and then as a destitute woman .
Thilakan comes in a small role as her dependable caring driver . Mammooty is good eye candy even when he has a few minutes role as her husband .Shot in lush locales of Kerala in traditional old houses the back ground music is the real hero in every scene.
Worth a watch .
Swargangal Swapnangal (1981)
Routine family fare
Srividya and Soman are happily married with 2 girls. She yearns for a son . Soman was thrown out for marrying a girl out of his father's choice . How ever they return back home to him with their 2 girls and make peace . SV develops a tumor and is unable to conceive . The family is devastated and do their best to stick around . As expected, she succumbs to cancer at a young age.
Soman and Jayabharati had grown up together and she was his silent lover. She is elated that he is now back to his ancestral house with his girls and tries her best to befriend the girls and make sure they do not miss their mother . She is their class teacher. She is still pining for Soman . Meanwhile the family pressurises him to remarry . He gets married to a family friend Shubha . She tries her best to fit in the family . The girls are unable to for get the mother . Soman too is aloof and cold . All the time parallel Jayabharati is the pillar of support for the children and also Soman . To her credit , Shubha tries all means to win their love and trust .
Misunderstandings and confusions prevail and finally totally fed up , she leaves his house stomping out .
Totally broken , Soman decides to be a single parent . Finally Jayabharati's now seeing her chance tries to tell him about her feelings from day one .She is still hoping to be his life partner. He refuses to marry again as both his marriages had ended badly . Sad and hurt , she steps back .
Sukumari is her close friend and confidante .She was privy to her secrets and feelings . She intervenes and tries to speak sense with Soman and describes how Jayabharati felt since day one and how the children still like her as their loved teacher . Soman sees sense and agrees to marry her egged on by his excited happy girls .
The last scene is poignant . JB commits suicide unable to bear the cold shoulder from him. Srividya is the ethereal beauty who glows even in a sad state without much make up. Jayabharati and Shubha are more than adequate in their roles . Ambika has a small role and sings some duets with her lover.
All leading ladies wear soft silks to show their domestic status . Over all a fine family fare . The ending could have been better. Soman could have married JB and lived happily ever after.
Keechu Raallu (1991)
Thriller of its times .
Bhanuchander and his friends are musicians always looking for opps to show off their talents. They get thrown out of jobs for some or the other reason . They meet shobhana a beauty queen and form a group. They keep performing at shows and weddings awaiting that big break. Shobhana's father wants her to marry his friend's son who is a known smuggler of drugs . She keeps stalling this wedding .
Incidentally they meet Sarat Babu who's son was waylaid and killed by this villain. A lot of twisting and turnings take place . Finally evil succumbs and good triumphs . Shobana is good eye candy and dances well.
Usha Utup's song in her powerful voice is the main centre of attraction . Baby Shalini is cute as Sarat Babu's grand daughter. Over all a taunt thriller of its times.
Ithile Vannavar (1980)
Family viewing
Sheela is the spine of this movie . She is good eye candy wearing soft sarees . She also acts well. She is a lonely house wife living alone in a spacious house . Her husband Madhu comes back one day claiming to her long lost husband . She refuses to believe this . She herself saw his dead body thanx to some sad accident a few years back. Shot in a lush palatial bungalow among green locales, the back ground itself is enough to entice you throughout the movie . Jagathy comes in one of his early roles as a likable transgender house help . Ambika comes as her assistant meant to help her . Caught in a corner Sheela doubts every one and any one . Sukumaran comes in a small role as her ex lover .
Soman is the police officer she turns to for help. Finally after a lot fights car chases twists and turns ,she blurts out that she herself killed him with her car . With her lover Sukumaran dead, her father had forced her to marry Madhu to conceal her affairs and pregnancy . She had hated Madhu since day one . The present husband is a police officer in disguise
over all a taunt thriller.
Saram (1982)
Family fare
Sukumaran is likable even in his villainous role with an impish grin . He comes to Ooty and starts working for a rich family . Slowly he gains their trust and marries Ambika who has lost her mind . Her mother Srividya adores him as her Son in law and savior of her daughter. But he has his own ulterior motives. He tries to cheat the family and kill Ambika on several occasions but ends up killing others like Srividya and the family cook. Meanwhile Ambika becomes normal and comes out of her delusions .
His motives are revealed in the end. A lot of confusions and twists later both Ambika and Sukumaran are united .Shot in luscious green Ooty with nice songs, its a family fare. Both Srividya and Ambika look good in simple sarees. Over all its a family fare.
Ee Kannikoodi (1990)
Classy and fine.
Ashwini who was a big star in Telugu plays the main role here. The entire movie rests on her shoulders. She is an innocent girl interested in Arts and belongs to a Christian family .her mother Sukumari tries every trick to get her married. She keeps stalling it and finally reveals that she is in love with a Hindu painter. Her parents refuse to get her married. She elopes quietly with him and gets married . Initially they start a happy life very soon he faces a lot of money problems and starts drinking . She bears all quietly . A family friend comes to her rescue buying his paintings . She starts trusting him. One fine day she comes to know that he is missing . Sad and broken she starts confiding in this friend taking him to be a kind soul. He has his own agenda . He starts using her for his own business benefits. She submits to her fate . She lives in a secluded house with her 4 year old son .
One fine day she is found murdered. A lot of people and their secrets come out tumbling . Veteran Thilakan makes a fleeting appearance as her visitor . He is a rich man and his daughter's wedding gets cancelled due to this . A couple of rich students had visited her before her murder. The police starts an investigation. Finally the child's nanny comes out with startling revelations . The world comes to know about her inner sad story when all the while they have been thinking of her as shameless and characterless.
They trace the husband to an asylum. He is recuperating from his alcohol addiction . He finally reveals the ending .
He had gone to reconcile with her with regret . He comes to know about her story but is still willing to accept her .He is privy to her visitors while hiding in her room . When he sees the bottle of alcohol gifted by Thilakan his addiction gets the better of him and again he starts drinking and losing control. In a fit of anger frustration self defeat rage he strangles and kills Ashwini himself .finally he turns himself in to the police .
The entire story is poignant . It shows several sides of each human . Every one is not fully good or bad .
Ashwini gets a meaty role . In real life she faced a poignant sad ending . Makes a compelling watch.
Aa Rathri (1983)
Family fare
Mammooty and Purnima are happily married with a child. Rohini comes into their lives as a destitute they meet on the train . Her BF is Ratheesh who is in search of a job . He joins his friends very close to Mamooty's house. One day when Purnima and Mammooty are returning by scooter , the boys tease her and she is kidnapped and violated by them . Soman is Purnima's long lost brother . They were separated in childhood and she was sent to an orphanage . He is often earning money by giving false evidence in courts. He gives evidence against Purnima saying she is a street walker and is paid by the rich boys' father. A lot of twists and sad turnings take place . Purnima commits suicide . Mammooty kills the boys in a rage . Ratheesh and Rohini unite in the end. Soman is left to regret quietly . An eye opening formula of those days . All main cast have acted well. Rohini shines in her side role . Mammooty shows all emotions very finely . Some fine songs makes this movie a family watch .
Visham (1981)
Family drama
Ratheesh is the brother in law of Srividya . They three are living a happy contended life . Ratheesh is a simple college student . His co student class mate falls for him . She also sends her father to Ratheesh's brother for match making . When his brother politely refuses citing their status , she gets angry and tries to file a false molestation case against Ratheesh . The three patiently bear all her tantrums . Menaka , his silent lover is always besides him giving him and his family quite support and strength. The family faces many problems because of her and her rich father. Meanwhile misguided by some friends, he also fights with his family and separates and joins the other side much to their dismay .
Suddenly one fine day Ratheesh's brother is found dead and all fingers point to him. Soman has a short role as the police officer investigating this . There is another small twist with Srividya and Soman being ex lovers in their own college days . A lot of twists and confusions later the real killer is revealed . Ratheesh settles down with Menaka. A fine family story . Srividya is as usual beautiful and ethereal in simple cottons . Ratheesh is more than adequate as the obedient brother , then a confused young chap chased by the rich girl then some one unlawfully accused then as an angry young impulsive man joining the other group ...facing all brunts quietly . Also has some nice hummable songs .
Kaathirunna Divasom (1983)
Don't jump to conclusions .
Malini is an innocent girl living with her mother in a small town. Her mother often warns her about stray relationships as she herself was cheated once by a man. Despite this Malini falls in love with Soman . He visits her town for some office work and promptly both consummate their relationship . She assures her wary mother that he will surely return back to her . Sadly he does not come back . She realises that she is carrying his child . Her mother gets her aborted quietly . Scared of society and her own growing age , her mother forces her to marry a much older man . Angry and frustrated she agrees . She vows vengeance against Soman but is unable to trace him.
Her husband is a station master in a nearby village . She joins him expecting a life of domestic bliss . She tries her best to adapt to his odd timings and life style . He however soon starts abusing her .
She resigns to her fate sadly . As luck would have it , Soman comes to the station as his superior . Her husband commits some fraud and is warned by Soman . To appease him , he decides to send Malini to Soman . Aghast ,she outrightly refuses at the risk of another abuse . When she realises that he is none other than Soman she accepts to go to him to plead her husband's case and also plots her revenge. She takes poisoned food to him . Surprised at seeing Malini , he pours his heart out and eats that . Very soon Malini learns that when Soman was was very much interested in meeting her mother but was beaten up by goons and had to remain in the hospital for several weeks .
Sadly by this time the poison has taken effect and he dies .She too dies eating that food unable to accept her truth between her abusive husband and this dead lover. A very sad story . Malini has huge expressive eyes and shows all emotions finely . Soman is a fine actor and leaves a mark as an innocent lover singing duets , then a helpless adult watching his ex married and talking of abuse . Over all a fine movie . The final message being we should not jump to conclusions .