‘Sree Dhanya Catering Service’ movie review: Much ado about biryani

In Sree Dhanya Catering Service, a lot of the display area is taken up by males. But, this isn’t only a film about males and their bonding, or their ego-fuelled altercations, though that’s what you get to see on display largely. The subtext conveys one thing else. What lies beneath is the suppressed disappointment of the girl who has to ask for permission from her husband to make a journey along with her mates from the neighbourhood kudumbashree group (which he denies), with the script contrasting it to the benefit with which a youthful girl from the present era embarks on a solo journey on her motorbike.

Fairly a couple of parallels could be drawn from the film to director Jeo Child’s most celebrated work but, The Nice Indian Kitchen. Proper on high is the truth that a lot of the film revolves across the act of cooking. Shino (Prasanth Murali), the proprietor of a struggling catering unit, decides to cook dinner biriyani for the whole neighbourhood on his youngster’s first birthday. His spouse (Beena) is just not very eager on the thought, particularly contemplating their monetary state of affairs, however his mates are enthused by the plan, considering of the probabilities of a males’s-only booze get together on the evening of the biriyani preparation. His buddy Sibi (Jeo Child), who was adamant in opposition to his spouse occurring a visit, promptly sends her and their teenage daughter to their ancestral residence, in order that he may host all the lads.

Jeo Child will get proper the rhythm of the evening of drunken revelry, slowly easing us into their midst, as the strain builds up and issues begin to go fallacious. A few of the greatest bits are written round a Kozhikode man boasting in regards to the famed biriyani of his native place, and his makes an attempt to impose his strategies on Shino, who’s making ready it in his personal ‘Kottayam’ model. The entire alternate is paying homage to most of the pointless, region-based meals debates in on-line areas, that always snowball into main fights. “Is it written within the Indian Structure that one ought to make biriyani in a selected approach solely?” asks a annoyed Shino.

A few of the different parallel tracks, particularly the one involving the native progressive “mental” Mahonnathan does not likely gel with the central theme. Though the film and the title sequences focus absolutely on him and his group, the movie doesn’t return to them till the tip, apart from some quick bits within the center. It appears even the scriptwriter forgot in regards to the character till that time!

However, more often than not, Jeo Child lets the natural humour drive the plot, reasonably than drill residence a message. The heady revelry on the similar time leaves an after-taste of uncomfortable inquiries to males like Sibi.

Sree Dhanya Catering Service is at the moment working in theatres