Watch for Mohanlal’s expression - priceless. Sample a few here.ġ) Revathy breaks stuff in the hotel and tells Mohanlal that her uncle - the Prime Minister of Angamali will pay for the damages. You will see them almost on a daily basis in any of the comedy serials. Some of the scenes in this movie are ever green classics. Whether it is Mohanlal and Jagathy doing their usual Laurel and Hardy routine, or the master-servant banter between Thilakan and his man Friday Innocent or ofcourse Revathy’s antics in her mental phase. Why do I like this movie? As I said earlier, the comedy here is top class. Who is this girl? Is she really retarded? Why does she bond so very well with the judge. To keep her safe, they get her to work at the home of a cantankerous retired judge (Thilakan in a marvellous role). Then suddenly they realise that her relatives are searching for her. She ferrets out their hidden cache of food - "Vecha kozhi da manam" ( I can smell cooked chicken, she says) and generally makes their life a misery. He tries desperately to get rid of her, but she always finds her way back. He takes her around and starts bragging to his friends about how wealthy he is going to be because of her.Īll his dreams come crashing down, when he realises that she is mentally challenged. When a seemingly well-to-do outsider (Revathy) comes to Ooty, he thinks his life is made. He dreams of making it big one day and is always on the look out for a quick buck. The story is as old as the hills - a loser (Mohanlal) who lives off his photographer friend (Jagathy) making a living as a guide for the tourists at Ooty. What I saw in the theatre is still my benchmark for top-class comedy.
After inhaling the smell of popcorn that other Dad’s were buying for their kids (Dad are you listening :p), we popped into the theatre. So off we went to the Safire theatre (now a rotting eyesore on the prime Mount Road real estate). I must count my lucky stars coz enough people had convinced Dad to have a look at this movie. Dad’s idea of going to movies was to wait till everyone else had seen a movie and listen to their comments,īefore wasting (in his words) his hard-earned cash on the whole theatre-going experience. This was one of the very few movies that me and my dad watched together in a theater.