Varane Avashyamund

2020, Malayalam, Netflix, 7/10 IMDB, Directed by Anoop Sathyan

A star-studded potpourri of stories revolving around malayali families, in an apartment at Chennai.

The director loves actress Shobhana just like any of us and a special kudos to him for bringing her on screen after so long. The last we saw her in Tamil, if I am not mistaken, was in Ravanan movie, choreographing Aishwarya Rai’s dance sequence.. She steals your heart right away and you fall in love with the character she plays as well.

The story is distorted with too many characters with too less depth and arc resulting in kinda clumsy screenplay to begin with.

It was a surprise to see Kalyani, playing Shobhana’s daughter taking a voluntary plunge into the groom hunt, herself. The story behind it does come much later, but it such a bliss to watch girls giving a good shot at arranged marriage proposals..

You are hinted there is a flashback to substantiate the hero’s backdrop and Dulquer’s character lacks depth up untill much later in the second half.

Suresh Gopi as an ex-military officer with problems managing his anger, is such an apt choice and you can’t think of any one else playing that role except for him. The way he clenches the school labeled note book, with cute innocence overloaded on his face, it was just adorable.

The senior’s love story between Suresh Gopi and Shobhana, had been carefully sequenced with care and director remained true to his promise made to shobhana before roping her in to the project I guess.. Absolutely no cliché what so ever. Loved it.

Kalyani plays her character with ease and she seems to be a natural.

Bonding through the time of floods was a nice tool. The only drawback was the characters were too many. There seems to be some problem in establishing emotional connect amongst all of them.

Some real funny moments but not as hilarious as it ought to have been, given the plot had too much scope for the same.

Good watch..