Mitr my friend, directed by revathi, ex Malayalam actor, distant relative of yours truly.
After a great opening scenes, the movie falls flat.
The movie starts with oothukkadu venkata kavi’s ‘kuzhal oodhi’ – a prosperous tambram household poNN paarkkal, marriage to a USA software engineer, relocation to California, a baby girl, a loving doting hubby and apparently contented home life. This is the beautiful shobhana.
Move forward 17 years, and we have a teenage girl in the house, an indifferent husband wedding to long hours at work, and a stayathome mom, who for 17 years had spent all inside the house, catering to the needs of the hubby, daughter (big flaw in story here…but then it is only a story).
The new twist here, is that in order to find solace from the inevitable mother daughter conflict, and husband’s aloofness, through internet chat. There is this slight suspense here, as to who her regular chatterer friend is.. but even this is cleared very soon, leaving the movie with nothing but a few pale versions of bollywood theatrics.
What a let down, after a great start.
Shobhana won best actor national awards for this movie, which I would go along. The hero nasir Abdulla, familiar to everyone who sees any ad for any fashion wear past 20 years, is miscast as the tambram husband. He comes out cold, unfeeling and uptight – surely we are better than that as hubbies?
The teenage daughter acts her natural self, like all of us who have teenagers in north America know.
The weak link, is why it took 17 years for shobhana to leave home and start self fulfilling activities. Most tambram women landing on the shores of usa, cannot wait to assert themselves to improving their lot – education, activity, socialising etc. in this movie, even getting a drivier’s licence was an issue. But then it is only a story. Right?
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After a great opening scenes, the movie falls flat.
The movie starts with oothukkadu venkata kavi’s ‘kuzhal oodhi’ – a prosperous tambram household poNN paarkkal, marriage to a USA software engineer, relocation to California, a baby girl, a loving doting hubby and apparently contented home life. This is the beautiful shobhana.
Move forward 17 years, and we have a teenage girl in the house, an indifferent husband wedding to long hours at work, and a stayathome mom, who for 17 years had spent all inside the house, catering to the needs of the hubby, daughter (big flaw in story here…but then it is only a story).
The new twist here, is that in order to find solace from the inevitable mother daughter conflict, and husband’s aloofness, through internet chat. There is this slight suspense here, as to who her regular chatterer friend is.. but even this is cleared very soon, leaving the movie with nothing but a few pale versions of bollywood theatrics.
What a let down, after a great start.
Shobhana won best actor national awards for this movie, which I would go along. The hero nasir Abdulla, familiar to everyone who sees any ad for any fashion wear past 20 years, is miscast as the tambram husband. He comes out cold, unfeeling and uptight – surely we are better than that as hubbies?
The teenage daughter acts her natural self, like all of us who have teenagers in north America know.
The weak link, is why it took 17 years for shobhana to leave home and start self fulfilling activities. Most tambram women landing on the shores of usa, cannot wait to assert themselves to improving their lot – education, activity, socialising etc. in this movie, even getting a drivier’s licence was an issue. But then it is only a story. Right?
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