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| Ezhu Sundara Rathrikal |
Lal Jose dabbles in a maze of relationships in Ezhu Sundara Rathrikal. It's about people who are waiting to get married and those who are already married. The film leaves links inter-connecting all those involved in it. The result is a narrative that goes slightly out of control after the initial good-natured humour which Dileep brings to the table.
Aby (Dileep) is an ad-maker waiting to get married to Ann (Parvathy). His old flame Rima Kallingal returns to the city where he lives and their encounter sets off a series of events bordering on confusions, misunderstandings, sense of guilt and the pain of loss.
Lal Jose intently tries to hold the complexities with a sense of triviality. He does away with tears and piano at times
of grave emotional crises and would instead squeeze in cartoonish sequences. The light-hearted treatment works to an extent, but not for long as the narrative is crippled by a sluggishness that results from a poorly conceived script.
There is a mad rush towards the end assembling a jumble of events to materialize a set of twists just to put things in order. In spite of all its earnestness, the attempt fails pushing the movie to levels of mediocrity. Dileep holds on to his casual, ticklish humour which salvages the film to a certain extent.