Jacobinte Swargarajyam

Its always difficult to travel against the flow. Here Vineeth Sreenivasan took a nice step without much interfering the culture of a typical malayali. In general the word 'kachavadakkaran' is not accepted in kerala. Exceptions are there with a few. Culture level it sometimes belongs to certain families or at the most a few castes or certain regions. Boldly the lady character is telling that 'I am an Ichayathi'. It has got those kind of indications. I wish to view it is a movie of a lady : Jacob's wife. But normal clichés like 'Villianising the investor', 'negotiation is bad with him' etc are portrayed for making it consumable as a commercial movie. However we should always appreciate a director for these kind of things are as he is not publishing it as an art-movie. Hats off Vineeth.

It is perfect if you're looking for a superb entertaining film which is loaded with a genuine family's highs and lows, and not just plain drama.

It shows how when people work together as a family they can overcome any hurdle of life whatsoever.

It will leave you with happy tears. Heart touching performances ny Nivin Pauly, Sreenath Bhasi, Renji Panicker and Lakshmi. It is one of my favourite films in the 20 years I've watched movies.

Awesome movie with a neat screenplay - Lot of maturity shown by the film maker in terms of screenplay post Premam - It a clean and neat editing and what a beautiful way to put all these things on screen - Its again a clean sweep.

I still remember watching this the day it came out at PVR cinemas Kochi. I had no idea what this film was about neither have i seen its trailer but 40mins into this film my face was so lit up. I have a very close friend who is from Dubai. This film reminded me of her all throughout.

There is no great story or anything but what Vineeth Sreenivasan does best is put heart and soul into every frames and it shows. That one scene where Renji Panicker tells Nivin to look after his mother brought tears to my eyes. At the end of the film i was so happy.

Even today whenever i feel down or lonely i rewatch this film, i changed multiple mobiles after this but everytime i have this film inside the phone.

This is my happiness pill.💙

Ironically, like all movies inspired from real life, the story is exaggerated and idealised into something far removed from real life.

The movie is the story about the story of Jacob, a wealthy businessman of high repute, being cheated by one of his most trusted dealers and thereby ending up in debt with his investors. Now its upto his son Jerry, who Jacob had been mentoring, and his wife to bring up his "ideal" family back to their previous status. I believe that if not for the direction of Vineeth and outstanding score by Shaan Rahman the movie might not have been as good as it is.

All the cast deliver apt performances. Ranji Panicker does what he does best, be the ideal cool father-figure that Malayalee youth expects their dads to be like. All other cast does what is asked of them. Nothing extraordinary from anyone, except maybe the mother whose attitude was a pleasant surprise. I was probably disappointed at the sister character having the least screen time, and contributes zero to the plot.

Rewatching the movie, especially right after watching "The Great Indian Kitchen", I noticed that Jacob's "ideal" family was a celebration of patriarchy. I had a major gripe at how Jerry is irritated and is protective when his sister is seen talking to group of boys while Jerry himself has a girlfriend and even youngest kid being always with girls is a funny gag around the family. I am not saying that every movies need to be progressive. This attitude is/was expected from a "reputed" family. But it suddenly became weird, when you start to notice that.