Makante Achan

Director V.M.Vinu who gave family films like ‘Balettan’, ‘Vesham’, ‘Yes Your Honour’, 'Bus Conducor', ‘Kanmashi’ etc has got unusual pairs in his latest film, ‘Makante Achan’. Sreenivasan and Suhasini (after a short gap) have done the main roles along with Vineeth Sreenivasan in the son’s character.


As the name indicates this is a clear-cut family film that deals with the day-to-day affairs and activities happening in an average middle class family. The new scriptwriter Samjad Narayanan has created the characters in such a way that most of them are familiar to us and well known in the society.


Father character is a true village officer (Sreenivasan) who is desperately hard working to make his son (Vineeth Sreenivasan) become an engineer. The vigorous training at the institute in which the principal (Thilakan) behaving harsh and rudely to the students and teachers, resembles a real life character in a district in central Kerala. The director has succeeded in revealing his mannerism to the public.


Till first half, it is the cat and mouse game between the father and son in front of the neutral mother (Suhasini). Later when father’s dreams exceeds the limit, there comes chaos in the house and as a result, the son goes through his own way. What happens to the father’s wish and desire is what we are told through a small family film. Some of the dialogues told by the parent’s character are touching also.


Compared to the first half, the second half is little more tensed and it can make the lady audiences weeping in some of the scenes nearing the climax. The debut scriptwriter (who is a journalist also) has discussed some more issues like the land mafia and their bad outcome, the controversial arrest of a fraud saint that happened few months before. The influence of TV-serials and reality shows etc are also shown.


Sreenivasan and Suhasini (with Bhagyalakshmi’s voice) have done well with their experience. Janardhanan’s character as Sreeni’s father is not impressive, it is repetitive. Also the counter laughing by each and every character for each joke looks real, but when it comes to the onscreen, it is intolerable to a certain extend.


Though this is a second film for Vineeth after ‘Cycle’ (he has showed his face in musical videos also), it is a long and tedious journey for him to “grow” as an actor. He is imitating his father or his father might have passed the ball most of the time to his son to make him hit at the nets, but it has not really worked well. Infront of senior artists like Sreenivasan and Suhasini, he should have been more careful. His body language is not good most of the time.


Songs by M.Jayachandran is not appealing. Cameraman Manoj Pillai has given usual frames necessary for such a subject. Jagathi and Thilakan have shown justice to their roles. Maybe the producers, Seven Arts Films will be happy to caste both father and son in a single movie, after the super success of their previous project “Kadha Parayumbol’, but they wont accept it, they might be telling that it happened accidentally only, but we are sure that the characterization is done only looking on the commercial and financial outcome of the project.


Anyway ‘Makante Achan’ is a family movie targeting ladies; you can watch it, keeping this in mind.

Rating : 3 / 5