Innumuthal

I selected Innumuthal on Zee5 (orig. Malayalam w/Eng. Subs) just by chance as it said Comedy.

The film begins and ends with fabulous visuals of a grassland shola mountain range (Vagamon ??) with great music. In fact most of the songs in this movie were quite good.

The main character Abhi (Siju Wilson) is not a particularly religious person, but like almost every Indian he routinely says a short peremptory prayer in front of his God. The narrative revolves around Abhi's search for his 'missing' Krishna, as in a tacky plastic idol of Lord Krishna which one day mysteriously disappears leaving only the plastic flute and plastic cow behind. Abhi is a taxi driver staying in rented rooms. He is always in debt, to his landlady, the local meals kada, his friends, to everyone. Nice typical Malayalam film 'dig' to show Abhi ordering erachi fry in the meals shop :-))) And of course Abhi manages to have money for the favourite passtime of guess what ???? Boozing .. especially with his neighbour Eltho ( humorously played by Gokulan).

The film progresses in a lackadaisical and at times boring manner in the first one third. Eventually in great despair and at his wits end to get money to repay his debts and avoid being thrown out by the landlady, a weird looking person purporting to be the real Lord Krishna (brilliantly enacted by Sooraj Pops) suddenly appears before Abhi.

The story really begins from here, with ample humour, poignant moments, some life lessons and realistic glimpses of human nature. This peculiar Krishna is full of quirky home truths, demolishing many myths (love the typical Mallu film digs), speaks more like a rapper and is a cause of much nuisance for Abhi. Abhi eventually believes that this joker person is the real Lord Krishna who promises him a good ending to his problems if he does as he is told, no matter how irksome the tasks may be.

In short, Abhi sets out to do the various tasks set for him by Lord Krishna. The final task is to drop an elderly disabled blind man (Uday Chandra) to the railway station to catch his train home to rural Madhya Pradesh. Abhi leaves the old man in the train compartment which is chock a block full. He feels guilty leaving a helpless blind person on his own like that and ends up accompanying the old man in a series of transit journeys until they reach his village only to discover that the old man's wife and daughter have declared him dead, sold the property and moved on to greener pastures. Another Mallu film 'dig' here is guess who??? .. the current PM's poster in the village !!!

Nice Anbe Sivam style touch in the remaining narrative .

Innumuthal is quite a pleasing movie. I would have rated it an 8 and it would have been a much better film had the extraneous portions in the beginning been considerably shortened or dispensed with.

I really loved the message and the feel after watching the movie. Don't know why so much hate, everyone has done their best.

Superb movie.. enjoyed alot... thanks to the whole team.

This movie had quite a simple story and a good script. It's done in such a manner that it succeeds in keeping the viewers invested in the story and the characters all throughout the run time.

The comic timing between the actors are really good. Gokulan stands out as the best comic performer in this one. But that is not to say others did bad. They too were quite good. In fact there is no actor in this movie who did his/her part in a sub par way. All of them did their roles neatly.

The movie doesn't try to be something bigger than it actually is, which is good. At the same time, the marketing for this one was practically non existent, which may not be something good. I doubt if the general public are even aware about the release of this movie.

If you want a light hearted entertainer which won't bore you, please do watch this.

It's been a while , such a good film worth watching . May be director got the idea from happy wedding movie . That scene where soubin disappeared... Although.