They come with a proficient supporting cast - TG Ravi, the antagonist, petty neighbours Sajitha Madathil and Sunil Sukhada, and Karamana Sudheer as a strong, opinionated priest reminds you so much of his own father in a cassock, it takes us back to Spadikam (1995). And if crying is a defining challenge for any actor, she accomplishes till you are crying with her. Asha Sarath cries a lot, great big heart rending sobs, lumps in her throat that she has to swallow, sad sniffling, she has lost her son and now her husband is also slipping and he refuses to take her hand. He is selfish and self-centered and his transformation was real and paced convincingly. In performance Mammooty has done well for himself.
It is this tremendous loss that sends them spinning before it takes them on a trajectory of realisation after realisation.Nandini finds greater purpose and develops the need individual well-being, besides the husband and mourning. The family loses their bearing and Venu is distraught, on the verge of losing the plot when he sees a light and clings on to it for dear life and scrambles out of the grave he is trying to bury himself in. And for this Anand has to die, in a freak cardiac arrest. He attacks parents who are unable to see beyond the children and the class and school level achievements. What Ranjith has done is to use a dated scheme to call Malayali parents out on this rush to make their kids the alpha child of the pack. He sings, dances, does karate, and has just been enrolled in swimming lessons, all so that his smug parents can gloat some more about their over achieving son. Above this family of some seriously flawed characters rises Anand the adolescent son of Venu and Nandini who is a far better person than his parents and neighbourhood around him. And Nandini complains because she is well fed and looked after and frankly very bored. In the first half we see that Venu is parsimonious with money, although he does make a lot of it with his nifty, twisty, cut-throat business. In Varsham, he casts Mammooty in the lead role as Venu who runs a finance company, 'blade company' in Malayalam parlance and provides a comfortable life for his wife Nandini (Asha Sarath), his son Anand (Master Nabeesh), and their dog, Jimmy. There is no guaranteeing what you are going to get, for he broke the industry mould with his debut, Passenger, but then he also did slip down a slippery slope with Arjunan Sakshi and Molly Aunty Rocks. Review Varsham & earn 20 DM Points.* Review Submit
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