MUMMY and ME

MUMMY and ME

Theatre : TVM Ajantha
Showtime & Date : 6.10pm, 21-05-2010
Status : Balcony 99% full with 95% family audience, FC 30%

After an impressive debut in DETECTIVE, Jeethu Joseph is back after 3 years, this time with a family subject dealing with current generation problems & relationship of youth with their parents.Youth will find will this movie a bit boring one at many parts as many scenes seems to be a pin point advice to them but families can identify themselves at many parts of the movie.

Story
In the movie, the whole story is narrated by the heroine to the audience. Jewel(ArchanaKavi) is the daughter of Joseph(Mukesh) & Clara(Urvashi). Jewel always fights with her mother because of the indifference in the opinions in whatever matters they deal. She just don't want her mother to interfere in her matters. Clara is worried about her. Joseph deals her daughter in his own way, a friendly manner. Because of that Jewel has got a healthy relationship with her father. Rahul(Kunchacko Boban) is the only son of Thomachan(Lalu Alex) & Shari. They are family friends of Joseph's family as Thomachan & Joseph were classmates. Rahul studies in the same college where Jewel studies and is her local gaurdian too. Rahul has love towards her, but he's not ready to reveal as he don't know how Jewel will react. Jewel's main hobby  is chatting in Internet. Inorder to avoid her late coming home, Joseph gifts her a computer with internet connection. Through chatting Jewel finds a friend Amir(Suresh Gopi), a fashion designer. The rest is how Amir changes her life & how Jewel & others are affected.

Performances
Urvashi as the title role MUMMY Clara had performed well with a set of new expressions & dialogue delivery styles. Her worry is shown in each & every scene she comes & Urvashi performed well too. Urvashi is still the best actress who can handle every situation, the script offers, watch the SUPER MOM song. Archana Kavi was not that good what the character Jewel has to be. Though she performed well to an extent her, repeated expressions will make us a little irritating. Mukesh as Joseph is the most powerful character in the movie. He very well expressed the feelings of a confused father in each and every scene, a tailor made role for Mukesh, the actor. His comic timing is excellent. Kunchacko Boban has got limited scenes in the movie. Though certain scenes are a rehash of his previous films, what makes this special is the way Chackochan handled this one. From Gulumaal, his comedy timing, expressions... has moved to the next level in this. His voice modulation was good. Lalu Alex as Thomachan was good in limited scenes. His dialogue delivery was superb expecially the dialogue to Chackochan " Mone, ee project workout aakumo??". Master Jeevan who acted as Mukesh's son was excellent with good comic timing. Anoop Menon was usual as psychiartist. Shari, Arun, Sudheesh, Janardhanan...perfectly fitted the role.

SureshGopi as Amir, an orphan & a fashion designer by profession made his presense from the first half of the movie itself with his voice. His presence in final scene was Superb.

Songs
Songs were above average, but the first half has got 3 songs in which 2 of them(Maalakha pole & Aarume Kaanathe) seems to be the speedbreaker & mismatch. Venmukilin & Super Mom were good. BGM was top class especially title music & when the end credits roll, the music still haunts me.

Technical
Vipin Mohan's cinematography was good. Editing needs o be a bit racy. Art Direction by Saburam was good. Makeup could have been better as the location Kuttikkanam was a cool area, the makeup mixes withe cold there which is clearly seen in many scenes for Urvashi & Mukesh.

Script & Direction
Both the departments are handled by Jeethu Joseph. He had taken a very serious issue happening in our society now as the core of the movie. Movie was engaging in the first half without a dull moment. The second half drags a little bit. Mukesh-Urvashi team's Joseph-Clara couple was excellent in many scenes where both don't want to make the other fail in front of her daughter in many situations, . Dialogues were excellent. Mukesh has got the best dialogues in the movie. The story starts & ends in the very same way & the last dialogue in which she introduces her to the audience as a narrator was superb. The scene in which Lalu Alex tells Kunchacko Boban to be flexible in life was very well taken with nice dialogues. The whole story is told like happenings in high class families. The club scenes could have been avoided. Jeethu Joseph's hardwork on screenplay is clearly visible in many scenes especially the mother daughter fight sequences. Once again Jeethu Joseph succeeded as a director and a script writer.

Family audience will thoroughly enjoy each & every scene as this had happened or is happening in their lives in one or another form.

Nothing more to say a good first half and an above average second half and a good simple sweet climax.

Verdict : Above Average
B O Verdict : SORRY DON'T KNOW, current trend make me say so

This one is clearly a multiplex movie. After a long time a feel good movie, which has got good light hearted comedies without any comedy stars.

Mohanlal was offered the cameo, which was done by Suresh Gopi here. Undoubtedly I will say Mohanlal missed the golden chance. After a point the character Amir was also there throughout the movie. The character was so effective, though it reminds me of the Mohanlal's character in Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare. The climax scene was simple & good which would have been double effective if Mohanlal had done that.