Mayamohini-An Average,Cliched,Inspired Comedy(Movie Review By Yoonus Mohyudhin)

As suggested by the look of the movie, it is about man disguising as women background, but its entirely based on a revenge story.

First of all its no doubt a polished inspired version of Chris Columbus’s 1993 movie “Mrs.Doubtfire”. Secondly its quite surprising that this is a work of the same director who directed “Nhan Kodeeshwaran”. Jose Thomas has really worked on his mistakes and directed a much better movie this time. Though the movie has its downslides but still its worth watching specially for viewers with the adult caps.

Script wise Dileep is playing the disguised man. Biju  is the 'husband' and Maithili is the journalist investigating with Mohanakrishnan.

Talking about performances, Dileep starts off as laid back person but then transforms into a serious one with a mission on hand. He just does a fine job, but the fire seems missing in his fight. Maithili looks cute and gets a good role here. But she also looks pretty mature at places (may be due to make-up). Baburaj as the failed lawyer friend is just there to say his lines and doesn’t have much to do. On the other hand Lakshmi Rai impresses in her small cameo.

And above all there is Biju who we all know is a great actor. He just outshines everyone in the few scenes he got. In fact I rate his scenes with Dileep, as the most powerful and the only saving grace for the movie. As the subject of movie differs from the original so there should be no comparisons made between Dileep and Robin Williams (The man disgising women in “Mrs.Doubtsfire”).

Mayamohini starts off slowly and the main problem is that nothing happens till the interval. There is no excitement in the first half and a song just after the intermission adds to the restlessness of the viewer.

There are two things which I couldn’t understand about the film-making here :

1. Why we always have to add songs and unrelated emotional angles in the movie. Jose Thomas should have avoided the songs completely in order to make the movie more tighter and to the point. And again the friendship angle of Dileep – Biju was also of no use and doesn’t have anything to contribute in the narration.

2. Why we cannot make a film on a theme, like comedy of errors or disguised. Why we have to induce sex and stund into our scripts. Cannot we make a film on certain “Subjects” instead of just talking adult jokes.

In the last 20 minutes the movie just turns into a normal revenge drama with the backdrop of underworld. Only this time there is a low standerd person using his powers to take revenge from a particular place.

As I see it the movie could be a far better experience if this angle would have been avoided. It could have been a thrilling comedy drama based on exciting hilarius sequences. But sadly it can only be called as an average adult comedy movie, entertaining only to a certain section of viewers.

Rating : 2/ 5

Recommendations : If you like this flick, I would recommend to see the following two movies too.

1. Mrs.Doubtfire (1993)     2. Tootsie (1982)

You will really have a good time watching these.