
Director Priyadardarshan is considered to be out of form these days. So, what would he do to recover his reputation? He will try to go back to his best days and do the things he did right then.
Priyadarshan does just that it in his new film Oru Marubhoomikkatha (Arabeem Ottakom P Madhavan Nairum in Oru Marubhoomikkatha as it was titled first), but the outcome is far from happy.
He gets one thing right-- he casts his favourite actor and his partner in many mega-hits, Mohanlal. The mistake he makes is taking the best scenes from his old movies and weaving a new story around them. It doesn't work. We feel we are watching 'the best of Priyadarshan', and two-and-a-half hours of this, jangles our nerves.
But, our man Mohanlal becomes our saviour. He not only helps us sit through the ordeal but even succeeds in giving us few genuine laughs.
P Madhavan Nair (Mohanlal) is a middle-aged man who has come to toil in the deserts of the Middle East to fulfil his responsibilities to his family of two younger sisters who must be married, and a father whose debt has to be paid. He has neither found the time to get married nor to have a life of his own.
It goes without saying that he is golden-hearted
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