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.
