Cast: Naren, Jayasurya, Indrajith, Manikuttan, Anoop Chandran, Meera Jasmine, Roma, Samvritha Sunil, Radhika, Saikumar
Direction: Kamal
Abhi (Narain) and Charulatha (Meera Jasmine) are in the lead in Minnaminnikkoottam.
They have a love hate relationship with stint of frequent quarrels followed by harmony. Mani Kunju (Jayasurya) has a sometimes platonic otherwise outspoken love for the smart moving Rose Mary (Roma). Rest of the friendship gang has Sidharth (Indrajith) and Mumtaz (Samvrutha), married couples and former lovers. Kalyani (Radhika) and Tamilian Parthasarathy (Anoop Chandran) complete the eight member friendship gang.
They often came together for food at the home of Sidharth (Indrajith) and Mumtaz (Samvrutha). A lot of the story revolved around these meetings as they dined.
The main affair being Abhi's and Charu's, let us follow that more closely. Film first takes us to Singapore where Charulatha is seen working before her PC. She gets an e-mail and a long flashback is offered. Taken back to India, we see their friendship playing out in office and outside.
Abhi brings the matter of their affair and his desire to marry Charu before his parents. Highly affluent parents, however, frequently failed to make their planned meetings with their sons beloved. Frustrated, Charu doubts that Abhi’s parents are truly not interested in their marriage because she comes from an ordinary family. She tells Abhi to come to Calicut to find out what real love and commitment of a parent means. Some of the few good moments of this otherwise not so fascinating movie unfolded in Calicut as Charu demonstrated to Abhi how much her father loved her. (Saikumar) as Charu’s father turned out one of the few remarkable performances of this film.
Failing to meet her sons would-be at her place of work, Abhi’s parents come to see her at Calicut.
That meeting at Charu’s home ended in Abhi’s father ridiculing Charu’s father. Taken aback and hurt by their insult of her beloved father, Charu shouts them out of the home in her characteristic sudden anger. There, their relationship comes to an abrupt end. What happens after that forms the crux of the movie. That again, unfortunately, is a predictable outcome.
The story has nothing new and Minnaminnikkoottam does not have many good moments either. Kamal has not been able to keep the story fresh and exciting. It proved a rather dull work with friendship as its main theme and many explosive and less explosive loves treading parallel to predictable outcomes.
4 marks out of 10.
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