REVIEW SUFIYUM SUJATHAYUM (Malayalam)

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REVIEW SUFIYUM SUJATHAYUM (Malayalam)

Producer-Vijay Babu

 Director- Naranipuzha Shanawaz

Star Cast- Aditi Rao Hydari, Dev Mohan, Jayasurya, Mammukkoya, Siddiqui, Manikandan Pattambi, Kalaranjani

Genre-Social

Rating- **

OTT- Amazon Prime Video

BLAND ONETIME WATCH WITHOUT A RIVETING DRAMA

Jyothi Venkatesh

It is the first Malayalam movie to be released exclusively on an OTT platform, reflecting the challenges posed by the Covid 19 Pandemic. Sufiyum Sujathayum marks the return of Aditi Rao Hydari to Malayalam cinema after 13 years. Her last Malayalam film was Prajapathi (2006). Set somewhere around the Kerala border in Palakkad, the movie shows a fictional village where the inhabitants speak in a multitude of languages including Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil with effortless ease.

Speech impaired Sujata (Aditi Rao Hydari) and NRI Dr V.R.Rajeev (Jayasurya) are leading an unhappy married life in Dubai. Despite being married for over 10 years and having a girl child together, Sujata is unable to come to terms with her life by forgetting her ex-lover, a Sufi priest (Dev Mohan). After hearing about the Sufi's death, Rajeev decides to bring Sujata back graciously to India to bid him a final goodbye, so that Sujata can get closure and give their loveless marriage another chance. What happens during the couple's visit forms the crux of the story.

In a film the plot of which moves at almost an unrealistic and ethereal pace leisurely, what makes it watchable is the brilliant portrayal by Aditi Rao Hydari of a speech impaired Sujata, whom is just unable to forget her first love for her Sufi boy friend though she is forcibly married off to a rich NRI who has settled down in UAE and even has a daughter through him. The director Naranipuzha Shanawaz is handicapped as a writer by an incoherent story written by him which has quite a few loopholes. The most glaring is the fact that the sublime love which blossoms between the protagonists in spite of chasms in their religions is not conveyed convincingly or for that matter even logically.

Among the actors, while Jayasurya deserves kudos for his restrained handling of his complex role of a husband who is jealous of his wife’s first love when he comes to know of it but at the same time is good enough also to bring her to his native place so that her love can get a closure by attending her boy friend’s burial after his death. Dev Mohan as the Sufi boy friend does not have much scope to perform while Siddiqui as Sujata’s father scores. The Kerala-Karnataka border, with its own rustic charm, has been beautifully framed by the cinematographer Anu Moothedathu. To his credit, M Jayachandran, right from the azaan to the clarinet portion, manages to give goose bumps to the listener. Jayachandran has invoked the Sufi spirit admirably, though, the music of the film is simply brilliant and you sway to the soulful music.

To sum up, the film is just a bland onetime watch without any riveting drama and fails to live up to its promise of being a rich ethereal love story with a difference.

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