Director Ranjith in a 36 min short Malayalam film `Madhavi' brings out the approach of two woman in the same strata of society and same age group towards the issue of virginity. The mother ( Sreelakshmi) is aghast that her daughter wants to tell about her losing virginity to a co-worker a year ago to the guy who is supposed to marry her. Why bring it out now ? Tell some other reason and back out- is the mother's advice. It becomes all more embarrassing since the boy's mother is her school mate.
The daughter Madhavi ( Namitha Pramod) wants to make a clean breast of it for reasons of her own. The guy with whom she made love has surfaced and sent her some pixs shot together. Better to tell it all and avoid problems later is her stance.
Madhavi and the boy go for a drive and then come back, The boy and his parents say that they will come back in the evening. To Madhavi's surprise, the boy and his parents do come. To her it looks like a social gesture towards her mom by her friend. Madhavi's mother is in knots.
The boy's mother ( Kuku Parameswaran) says that it is a closed door matter and they have no issues. She says that she did not tell about her life before marriage as she felt it was not something that her hubby had to know about.
Till here the film takes a mature attitude. Then it slips to a pulp romance track with the boy taking Mahavi in a push cart for a stroll and the friends of the girl abusing the guy who had the one night stand.
The line is that parents should not be judgemental about their children and instead go along with them and sort issues. There is also the way that the mother of the boy looks at the proposal. For the mother , her son and hubby who are architects gets an architect `bahu' and that her son is no saint either.
Best part is that there is no BGM - camera angles to impress you that it coming from a director like Ranjith. With no distraction you can watch it. You can shrug it off and go on,or like me ponder about it for a few minutes. There is nothing that as critics say will haunt you or have something that one usually says the Ranjith stamp on it. As the roles are lightweight, there is no need not go gaga about the actor's performances.
Chathur Mukham : Kerala Lady Supestar Manju Warrier being in it and the pre-release hype of the film being `techno horror film'. What can Manju do in a film that starts out to be a horror film and find a scientific solution to become a routine horror tale ?. She struggles hard but the script does not help her. Add to it Sunny Wayne with his trademark Mr Cool dialogue delivery and Navas Vallikunnu trying to be a Suraj Venjaramood, you are finished.
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