Sunday, June 12, 2011

Makante Achan

An ambitious father, Viswan, (Sreenivasan), who is also a village officer, wants his son Manu (Vineet) to become an engineer and has been sending him for entrance coaching for 2 years without success.  Manu is a talented singer, but his father wants no singing until he gets through entrance and becomes an engineer.  Viswan is also a very honest government official.  As it is typical with Srinvasan films, many contemporary social issues have been integrated in the story line and through gags and one liners, actors have been able to put matters in the viewer's head to ruminate on.  Issues like bribery, child education, mad rat race for careers, fake swamis, land mafias......all have been touched.....Other important characters include Krishnan Kutti (Salim Kumar), peon at village office, who leads a lavish life and tries to influence Viswan vainly, and Rema (Suhasini), Viswan's wife.


Overall a good family entertainer.

2 comments:

Govind Raj said...

This was an also ran movie elevated by Sreenivasan and his son coming together. Somehow it lacked the punch of Sreeni's normal self !

Unknown said...

The father son duo share gr8 rapport in the leg pulling scenes, as it looks their real chemistry spilled onto screen, although during the emotional scenes, it could have been better, but then Sreenivasan has always acted like this only (underacting or whatever) i guess. Also script was not written by Sreenivasan.