Though there are no efforts to present something new, Ranjith Sankar?s script hits the right notes mostly and he has packaged the film well. But as it is mandatory in stories of this kind, an unprecedented happening comes up soon.įor all those who are no great fans of old fashioned family dramas, this one could be mushy to the core, but even then the film has its moments for sure. The couple dreams to make their only son, Anand (Master Prajul), a doctor. He is married to this stereotyped ?housewife? Nandini (Asha Sarath), who is jealous, nagging and as it always happen, has a maid to be updated with all the local news. Venu (Mammootty) is a wily businessman, who runs a local finance company. But it is Mammootty who holds the film together with amazing maturity and total dedication, which was perhaps missing in most his performances of late.
TAMIL VARSHAM MOVIE TV
Using all the melodrama and clich?s that was seen mostly in films of the 1970s and 80s and is still the mainstay of most TV soaps, the film is a conventional tearjerker with limited surprises. Varsham may be all too familiar as the sobby, family drama we had left behind but there is something in there to take away with you.After many half-hearted efforts during recent years, Mammootty takes the viewer through the pain of a doting dad, who has to face an extremely disturbing reality in director Ranjith Sankar?s 'Varsham'. The story also gives time to taking down private finance companies as a business model that even now in the age of sophisticated banking has a vicious grip on a large section of people. They come with a proficient supporting cast - TG Ravi, the antagonist, petty neighbours Sajitha Madathil and Sunil Sukhada, and Karamana Sudheer as a strong, opinionated priest reminds you so much of his own father in a cassock, it takes us back to Spadikam (1995). And if crying is a defining challenge for any actor, she accomplishes till you are crying with her. Asha Sarath cries a lot, great big heart rending sobs, lumps in her throat that she has to swallow, sad sniffling, she has lost her son and now her husband is also slipping and he refuses to take her hand. He is selfish and self-centered and his transformation was real and paced convincingly. In performance Mammooty has done well for himself. It is this tremendous loss that sends them spinning before it takes them on a trajectory of realisation after realisation.Nandini finds greater purpose and develops the need individual well-being, besides the husband and mourning. The family loses their bearing and Venu is distraught, on the verge of losing the plot when he sees a light and clings on to it for dear life and scrambles out of the grave he is trying to bury himself in. And for this Anand has to die, in a freak cardiac arrest.
He attacks parents who are unable to see beyond the children and the class and school level achievements. What Ranjith has done is to use a dated scheme to call Malayali parents out on this rush to make their kids the alpha child of the pack. He sings, dances, does karate, and has just been enrolled in swimming lessons, all so that his smug parents can gloat some more about their over achieving son. Above this family of some seriously flawed characters rises Anand the adolescent son of Venu and Nandini who is a far better person than his parents and neighbourhood around him. And Nandini complains because she is well fed and looked after and frankly very bored. In the first half we see that Venu is parsimonious with money, although he does make a lot of it with his nifty, twisty, cut-throat business. In Varsham, he casts Mammooty in the lead role as Venu who runs a finance company, 'blade company' in Malayalam parlance and provides a comfortable life for his wife Nandini (Asha Sarath), his son Anand (Master Nabeesh), and their dog, Jimmy. There is no guaranteeing what you are going to get, for he broke the industry mould with his debut, Passenger, but then he also did slip down a slippery slope with Arjunan Sakshi and Molly Aunty Rocks.
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