Pathemari

The best movie of 2015..........

Mr Salim Ahmed has really done an amazing work.......

.The way the story is brought up is in fact the real truth about its success...... A realistic story... The end makes our eyes filled with tears........

I highly warn you that this movie should not be watched by weak heart ed people....

This is really a heart touching movie......

Really an amazing movie... I bet that this movie will be loved by everyone...... I request you all to watch this movie............. It is a movie that should be rated as excellent............

"Pathemari" is a very studied thorough effort to portray the lives of those keralite men who leave their families away and move to the middle east to work and save their brethren from the clutches of poverty. Presented against thorough research with consistent content throughout the movie, it was a very satisfying movie watching experience.

The movie starts with a fable like depiction of how Dubai came up followed by it's city sights. The movie then makes nice smooth transitions in time between past and present, telling the story of Narayanankutty ( played by Mammootty ) who, motivated by the abject poverty at home, takes the challenging and long journey across the seas on the pathemari( big boat) to find work in the middle east. The movie details out the specifics of the challenges of the journey, making some insincere attempts at using special effects to depict the sea storms which was probably the only thing that did not fall in place in the movie.

Thereafter, the movie portrays how he wants to push the family out of poverty and get back home himself as soon as he can and how his family continues to push in more and more demands on him and he is essentially forced into fifty years of gulf life. The subtle family situations that he gets put into have been chosen out of real experiences of many many such gulf malayalees through all the detailed research that has clearly gone into making the movie.

I would contend that each and every situation in the movie has been drawn out of real life, unaltered from multiple real people. There needs to be some conscious thought to understand someone who you do not see everyday. This movie is to push those thoughts into the minds of people who are not making the heart for them.

Mammooty has acted really well and becomes Narayanankutty. His subtle acting stands out beautifully. Narayanankutty has almost found a place in my memories now. I really hope that this movie serves as an eye-opener and allows at-least a few 'Narayanankutty's a fairer go at life.

The review would be incomplete without the mention of the songs penned by 'Rafeeq Ahammed' and music directed by 'Bijibal'. The lyrics capture the pain of the story so nicely that it can serve as a concentrate for the script. The music does great justice to the movie and adds another feather to my rising respect for Bijibal.

Best movie i have ever watched...mammootty shows the real life of peoples working in gulf countries

Pathemari (2015) : Brief Review -

An Ode to True Hardship Spirit of Migrated Malayalis. A film that touches heart as well as brain with life long message. Pathemari must have been worshipped by many Malayalis i don't know because i am not from Kerala and haven't experience their lifestyle. That little bit i know about them is hardly something and lot indirect and this film is a detailed take on a Malayali's life from 60s decade till his death. I have to admit that it would have worked even better if i had been a Malayali. However, it has worked as human drama for me and that social sense is there in me to understand the life a simple human being affected by migration during 60s when it was actually a serious issue for many south Indians and has remained for decades later too. The plot follows the life of Pallikkal Narayanan who migrated to the Middle-East in the early 1960s, when the Kerala Gulf boom was just beginning. The film shows his life in simple manners, no hardcore drama or melodrama like 90s family movies, just a simple presentation of the actual problems any poor but good man faces. That's it but that's too much to be honest. And then there is uplifting climax with life long message about money, hardship, family and true human spirit with heart touching emotions. The music plays an important role here. You know usually I skip the songs while watching non-hindi/English/marathi movies if it doesn't suit me in first 40 Seconds or so but here every song in Pathemari has worked. I didn't skip a single song and that's a very rare thing to me. You know sometimes while watching any emotional film you wish that there must be a terrific Melodious song at right situations which you can take along with you even after the film is over, Pathemari Title Song is exactly what i ordered. Yet another remarkable performance be legend Mammootty and yet another remarkable film in director Salim Ahamed's short but fantastic filmography.

RATING - 8/10*

By - #samthebestest.

This is a Malayalam language film starring Mammootty.

It is a really good reflection of the initial folks from Kerala who had to migrate to the Middle East in order to escape poverty and hunger in the Communist state Kerala.

Even today the Kerala economy primarily runs from the remittances of these emigrants who had to labour and sweat to pull their families out of hardship. They actually never got to live a wholesome life as in most cases they couldn't take their families along. Living with roommates as boarders all their adult lives, just hearing stories of life that's moving ahead back in their homelands, yearning to be with loved ones, it's truly tragic. The director has depicted these beautifully without melodrama.

This is not even the story of the middle class Indians who reside there now. Having the best of cars and lifestyles, they are now there by choice.

This is the story of the hard workers who had to pay the price of believing their Communist political leaders.

How the protagonist opens everyone's eyes informing that when they send money, it is mostly by borrowing. And how the boatman opens the protagonist's eyes by bluntly saying they value the money you send more than you. The truth is so on-the-face, without Narayanan even informing the boatman Velayudhan about what's happening at home.

It is really touching when you hear in the end that he feels successful that thanks to his efforts, his family could lead a good life..

A hats-off to those pioneers truly is not enough. Our prayers to them.

A must watch movie for such an honest depiction.