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Shyamaprasad is teaming up with debutant script writer Joshua Newtonn for his next venture after the highly acclaimed Ore Kadal. This time, Shyamaprasad is dealing with the life of youngsters through his new film named ‘Rithu’. The title literally refers to season.

The story portrays the life surrounding four young people aged around 24 years and Prithviraj plays the lead role. Young writer Joshua Newtonn has completed the script in a span of one year time. The shooting will commence in October. The main locations will be Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram.

The makers are aiming the mainstream young audience too and they have already chosen some peppy music for Rithu.

Now a days, films are becoming “projects”. First fixes the Actor, director and writer. Story, script etc are not necessarily needed. The latest example is Mammootty-Padmakumar-TA Rassaq team’s Parunthu. When we watch the film, it is clearly evident that TA Rassaq didnt write anything for the film. This team’s project had changed the story two or three times, atlast they chose the basic idea of Devasuram and Vargam.

Devasuram, Vargam.. and now Parunthu. All the three films are based on the same storyline. But there is a big difference. First two films had a good script and fresh treatment. Parunthu lacks both these aspects. The only plus point in the film is the character buildup of Parunthu Purushu (Mammootty) in the first half. It was refreshing to see one of our superstars doing a negative role after many years. Everything else in the film misfired. The negative touch is removed in the second half for the sake of commercial viabilities. Jayasurya did a role which could have been avoided by him, considering his current market value in malayalam cinema.

The dance sequence of Mammooty in the song was really unwanted. Padmakumar’s intention with that song is still a mystery. Purushu’s transformation was very quick and was not convincing. Two songs in the film were unwanted and misplaced. Again the cliched sequences in the climax, regarding the end of villain.

TA Rassaq seems to have forgotten even basics of script writing, according to the climax of the film. Padmakumar’s directional skills were visible in some of the scenes. But as a whole it was not upto mark.

Rating 3.5/10

The film deals with the relationship of a group of young IT professionals. Kamal has chosen simple way to narrate the modern age youngsters’ changing life style and outlook of life. The script is an above average one, but it has succeeded to give good characterization to the leading characters. There is nothing innovative in the film. Deals with friendship, love and separation.

Abhi(Narain) and Charulatha(Meera) are love birds. Mani Kunju(Jayasurya) has a soft corner of the quick witted Rose Mary(Roma). The story mainly revolves around these pairs. Sidharth (Indrajith) and Mumtaz(Samvrutha) are married couples. Kalyani(Radhika) is also a member in this friendship gang.

The songs tuned by Bijipal is just average and does not have the usual Kamal touch.

The humour in the film is purely situational and there is no Vadivelu - Vivek(Suraj- Salim Kumar) for satisfying first day audience. Narain’s performance was an average one and his character does not have complicated situations. Jayasurya has improved in the last two years and he was good with his natural performance. Meera can never be blamed for repetition, and she did justice to her character. Roma also did a good job.

In short Minnaminnikoottam is a soft feel good movie.

Rating: 6.5/10