‘Madhura Manohara Moham’ movie review: Begins with lofty promises, ends up as forgettable fare – The Hindu
How is one alleged to react when one catches a bus to Thrissur and results in Timbuktu? It’s the sort of feeling one would find yourself with after watching Stephy Zaviour’s directorial debut Madhura Manohara Moham, which guarantees one factor within the trailer and its preliminary scenes, and finally ends up delivering the alternative.
A lot of the movie is about across the household headed by Usha (Bindu Panicker), together with her daughter Meera (Rajisha Vijayan) being essentially the most accountable of the lot, whereas her son Manu (Sharafudheen), a authorities worker, is an lively employee of an higher caste organisation and is in love with its president’s daughter Shalabha (Aarsha Baiju). The youngest daughter seems to be essentially the most progressive amongst them.
Madhura Manohara Moham (Malayalam)
When one will get into this milieu of higher caste households, swimming in higher caste pleasure, and the movie seems mockingly at them, it offers out the vibes of a special sort of movie. However, even in these supposedly humorous moments, the place a lot of the humour doesn’t work, the moderately clunky remedy stands proud. Hardly a scene passes with out the background music meant to cue the suitable emotion to us. It’s so constant that one would find yourself wishing for a tool to cancel the background rating in at the very least half of the scenes.
Among the tried satire of casteist practices, particularly of Usha utilizing a separate metal tumbler to serve tea to the fish vendor, solely finally ends up exhibiting such abhorrent practices in a light-hearted method, at occasions even normalising it. Even a clueless try at humour across the imaginary idea of ‘love jihad’ additionally has the identical impact. Regardless of these failings, the script, by Mahesh Gopal and Jai Vishnu, initially regarded set to poke some critical jibes at ingrained casteism and even seemed to be transferring in direction of a story transgressing all such boundaries.
And, then it springs a shock and takes off on fairly a special tangent, which was high quality, however it solely additional finally ends up taking the movie into messier territory. This tangent additionally turns into an excuse for a denouement the place all caste and spiritual purity are preserved in marriage, whereas laying to waste on the wayside prospects for inter-religious, inter-caste marriages. One actually isn’t positive what the writers supposed to convey by way of that complete shift written across the character of Meera.
In the long run, it seems like a movie the place the writers began working round just a few progressive bullet factors, as a result of these are in vogue, however quickly developed chilly toes and veered off right into a innocent course. The current film Thrishanku is a stark distinction to this, in how subtly it dealt with comparable themes and managed to create some natural humour too. Madhura Manohara Moham fails on each fronts, and finally ends up as forgettable fare.
Madhura Manohara Moham is at present in theatres
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