Margamkali DVD Released

Margamkali is the traditional dance form of Kerala Christians, but for director Sreejith Vijayan and team, it is the final game one plays when there is no other way to attain a goal. The romcom, which features Bibin George and Namitha Pramod in the lead, narrates a simple love story of Sachi and Oormila. Both have their own inferiority complexes about their physical appearences.

Sachi belongs to a rich and affluent family. His parents enacted by Shanthi Krishna and Siddique do not want him to work. They want him to be their messenger as they haven’t spoken with each other in the last 20 years due to certain misunderstandings. Sachi also has two friends - Antappan, a drunkard, and Tik Tok Unni, a lassi shop owner who is desperate for love, enacted by Baiju and Hareesh Kanaran, respectively. After a girl named Oormila rejects Unni, he tries to get revenge and seeks Sachi’s help. A love failure victim himself, Sachi begins talking to Oormila, but the twist comes with another Oormila entering his life.

This comedy entertainer, tells multiple love stories at the same time. The love between Sachi’s parents, Tik Tok Unni’s enthusiastic love for the girl whom he meets through an app and the love between two childhood schoolmates. Bibin George, Namitha Pramod, Siddique, Shanthi Krishna and Baiju showcase a decent performance.

Music has been interestingly weaved into the film. Sachi’s father, a music buff keeps playing different instruments every time he appears, and this goes in sync with the situations. Seems like Gopi Sundar and Sreejith have worked together to bring the mood out well.

A one-time watch, written by Sasaankan Mayanad has a few LOL moments. However, the film puts out a lot of conflicting ideas. At one point you see the hero hesitating to write a love letter to help his friend as he says that he wants to woo his girlfriend. Like a hero, Sachi says, “I hate people using slangs like veezhthuka, valakkuka, item and charakku about their romantic partners.” And throughout the movie, we see Sachi’s friends using the same language.

Similarly, the film also puts out a lot of sequences which intend to throw light on the ill effects of body shaming and questions the concepts of beauty. Unfortunately, at the same time, it has a lot of sequences where the sidekicks are being humiliated in the name of colour, shape of their physical features and so on. Sreejith Vijayan’s previous film Kuttanadan Marpappa too had similar sequences. Nevertheless, it would have been nice if he had tried to sort out the confusions on the core idea of the movie with the scribe before filming it.

There is nothing remarkable to speak about the technicalities of the movie, which make for a timepass film but definitely offers nothing for intellectual stimulation.