‘Mei Hoom Moosa’ movie review: Suresh Gopi caught in lacklustre treatment of a decent subject

Getting the style proper is as necessary as arriving at an excellent topic for a film. Not each topic could be forced-fit into any style, as is being executed in Mei Hoom Moosa. An individual listening to a one-line theme of the film may naturally assume it to be a severe drama that might deliver out the struggles of a person who’s assumed to be lifeless, to show to the world that he’s certainly alive. However what we get as a substitute is a shoddy try at making a comedy film.

After all, with the suitable script, numerous humour could possibly be drawn out of this man’s state of affairs. Sadly, one of many weakest hyperlinks of the film is such makes an attempt at creating some laughs. Jibu Jacob’s movie, has at its centre Lance Naik Muhammed Moosa (Suresh Gopi), a soldier who everybody assumes to have died within the Kargil struggle on the border. When he returns house after spending 19 years in a Pakistani jail, the villagers are caught between disbelief and real happiness at his surprising return. His relations usually are not precisely completely happy on the method issues have turned out, having moved on with their lives after the preliminary shock.

Jibu Jacob, who debuted with the pleasing political satire Vellimoonga, has since then been serving up one disappointing fare after one other. Mei Hoom Moosa, scripted by Rubesh Rain, doesn’t handle to reverse that pattern, regardless of having an honest theme to financial institution on. The discordant notes, arising out of the sudden shifts from severe drama to compelled humour, could be heard proper from the start. In a single such scene, Moosa, who’s discovering it onerous to regulate to the modified world, asks his buddy Thami (Hareesh Kanaran), “Is there a guide inside this?”, whereas speaking about accessing Fb from his telephone. In actual fact, most of Hareesh’s typical model of humour falls flat on this film.

Sly makes an attempt are additionally made within the script to color one part of a selected group as unpatriotic, whereas projecting one other part as preferrred Indians. Partly because of the remedy of the topic, Moosa’s plight actually doesn’t handle to maneuver us at any level. Many of the characters, in addition to the components alleged to convey Moosa’s relationship along with his relations, are additionally sloppily-written.

The film can be not very positive of how you can deal with the character of Moosa’s brother Meeran (Saiju Kurup), who at some factors is proven as a conniving man planning to kick out his brother, whereas on the similar time appears to be holding plenty of love and respect for him. However, Moosa’s spouse Paathu (Poonam Bajwa) walks away with the honour of probably the most unimaginatively-written character of the whole thing. One other facet monitor about his daughter and her lover, which additionally contains one of many many misplaced songs, can be ended unconvincingly.

Having an excellent topic at hand might sound a sure-shot solution to an attention-grabbing film. However Mei Hoom Moosa proves that this essentially needn’t be the case all the time, with its tiring, lacklustre remedy.

Mei Hoom Moosa is presently working in theatres