Oru Small Family

Medium : Malayalam
Starring : Rajasenan, Kailash, Kalabhavan Mani, Suraaj Venjaarammood, Ananya, Seetha
Director : Rajasenan
Music : M.Jayachandran

A marriage engagement function is happening in the girl's house. All the relatives from both the sides, including the 'proposed boy' is present. The mother is serving alcohol in different brands instead of tea, sweets etc for all of them, the grand father is giving alcohol to the 'boy', as an after effect at one stage the 'boy' even tries to molest the 'girl' at the same occasion. It lead to a group fighting followed by double meaning dialogues exchanged between the two parties and in between the 'porn' clips in the boy's mobile are enjoyed by the girl's relatives and the ladies in the visitor's group are being driven out using sticks and stems by the host ladies and the gents are being locked up in a room, thus the function got collapsed...

Can you imagine such a situation shown in any of the movies. Sadly it has happened in a malayalam movie named 'Oru Small Family'; K.P.A.C Lalitha, Bheeman Raghu, K.T.S.Padannayil, Suraaj Venjaarammood, Kailash etc are those artists who had successfully participated in the scene described above, under the guidance of writer-director Rajasenan. The director had given some notorious projects in the past few years, like 'Nakshathrakkannulla Rajakumaran Avanundoru Rajakumari', 'Swapnam Kondu Thulaabhaaram', 'Immini Nalloraal', 'Madhu Chandralekha', 'Kanaka Simhasanam', 'Romeo' and he even tried his luck by acting himself as a hero in 'Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu'. No body can forget movies like 'Melepparambil Aanveedu', 'Ayalathe Adheham', 'Aniyan Bava Chettan Bava', 'Aadyathe Kanmani' etc that came from the same director. He is acting in a lead role in his latest project also.

The sub registrar (Rajasenan) is living with his wife (Seetha) and daughter (Ananya). The girl is in love with the his college mate (Kailash). The father is not accepting it, as the lover belongs to a family that are having alcohol business, more or less they are all (including the ladies ) drunkard peoples. The father who is hating such a drinking habit becomes an alcohol addict later and how the lover boy tries to solve the problems inside his family and the problems related to the love matters are all shown here.

The placement of a liquor shop in front of the heroine's house is a deliberate one and the activities of the drunkards are suited for an amateur stage show at school. The house wife helping the unknown drunkard's (even at night) by giving pickles and omelet from her house is very strange and unrealistic. The director had given the liberty to the art director to do the office interior arrangement, almost same as his previous movie. The drunkard hero's combination scene with the heroine's father is not the best as the flexibility of the former is not the best. The director's way to become a drunkard is an escapism which in turn is a relief for the viewers from his 'classic' acting style. The whole activities happening inside the hero's family like the sharing of liquor, even by the mother won't be the best sight. The assembling of wives at the heroine's house had got a documentary feel. Like this, there are many negatives.

The voice given for Seetha by Pravina feels odd, as the dubbing artist dominates over the performer in most areas. Jibu Jacob is the cinematographer, Raja Mohammed is the editor. Gokulam Movies had distributed the movie.

On the way to watch this movie, my friend asked 'Where are you going ?', when I said the movie's name, he murmured, 'Too sad...It is your fate...!';he was almost right, the fate was decided...


The outcome of 'Oru Small Family' gives us a feeling that the director had still not attained the 'good form', he managed to enjoy in the 90's...


Rating : 2 / 10 (revised)