Thenmavin Kombath

This movie is 100% what we expect from Priyadarshan- Mohanlal combo. A fun film with romance, action, good songs and some evergreen situational comedy scenes in the backdrop of a love triangle.

Priyan has shown his craft right from the first shot. The title song takes us to the fictional Sreehalli village and we remain there till the movie ends. The cinematography is by K V Anand (in his debut), for which he won the National award. Some of the frames are untouchable even today with all the technological advancements. Production design by Sabu Cyril is also amazing. All songs were superhits and are still very popular.

Mohanlal is brilliant as always. Nedumudi Venu, Shobhana and Sreenivasan have also given stunning performances. Overall one of the best entertainers in Malayalam.

This movie has beautiful images, cinematography, scenery. The story could've been better instead too many curves and twist and drama. Great acting from all.

The film is centered around a village in which panchayat meetings are held to determine the fate of adulterers, cows and people wash in the river, tribal women wear special saris, and Pongal is celebrated with exciting bullock-cart races! It sounds like one of *those* village films, but it actually stays pretty lighthearted and silly until the intermission.

RATED 9/10 Language: Malayalam Source: Amazon Prime RECOMMENDED

I liked this one very much. The premise and characters are so much better and suited very well with the story. The comedy and sentiment are handled very well. Another movie to prove that originals are always better... after seeing this I started to dislike the first half of "Muthu" movie and started to like Mohanlal more... So original and so funny.... must watch.

Firstly, this review does not contain any spoilers whatsoever so read on. Frontier melodrama about Kerala's Thazavad manorial system which is based on matrimonial Kinship. Sreekrishna (Venu), the brother of the Madambipura House's leader, Yashoda, is extremely friendly with his servant Manikan (Mohanlal). Another servant, Appakala, envious of Manikan's favored status, is the film's official villain. The Madambipura House is locked in an ancestral rivalry with the equally large establishment run by Ganjimuda Gandhari, which usually finds expression in the bullock cart race at the annual Pongal festival.

Both Sreekrishna and Manikan fall in love with the beautiful itinerant theater actress Karuthumbi (Shobhana), causing Manikan to briefly fall out of favor with both Yashoda and the local law. The film's camera-work adopts the glossy style (diffusers and angled lighting calibrated to the exposure of high-speed color stock) made fashionable by Tamil cinematographer P.C.Sriram. Shot mostly at dawn and dusk, the camera-work creates a glittering fantasy world than in turn determines both plot and performances.