‘Mei Hoom Moosa’ film evaluation: Suresh Gopi caught in lacklustre therapy of a good topic

Getting the style proper is as essential as arriving at an incredible topic for a film. Not each topic will be forced-fit into any style, as is being executed in Mei Hoom Moosa. An individual listening to a one-line theme of the film would possibly naturally assume it to be a severe drama that will carry out the struggles of a person who’s assumed to be lifeless, to show to the world that he’s certainly alive. However what we get as an alternative is a shoddy try at making a comedy film.

After all, with the fitting script, various humour might be drawn out of this man’s scenario. Sadly, one of many weakest hyperlinks of the film is such makes an attempt at creating some laughs. Jibu Jacob’s movie, has at its centre Lance Naik Muhammed Moosa (Suresh Gopi), a soldier who everybody assumes to have died within the Kargil warfare on the border. When he returns house after spending 19 years in a Pakistani jail, the villagers are caught between disbelief and real happiness at his sudden return. His members of the family usually are not precisely comfortable on the manner issues have turned out, having moved on with their lives after the preliminary shock.

Jibu Jacob, who debuted with the fulfilling political satire Vellimoonga, has since then been serving up one disappointing fare after one other. Mei Hoom Moosa, scripted by Rubesh Rain, doesn’t handle to reverse that pattern, regardless of having a good theme to financial institution on. The discordant notes, arising out of the sudden shifts from severe drama to compelled humour, will be heard proper from the start. In a single such scene, Moosa, who’s discovering it laborious to regulate to the modified world, asks his buddy Thami (Hareesh Kanaran), “Is there a e-book inside this?”, whereas speaking about accessing Fb from his cellphone. In reality, most of Hareesh’s typical model of humour falls flat on this film.

Sly makes an attempt are additionally made within the script to color one part of a specific neighborhood as unpatriotic, whereas projecting one other part as preferrred Indians. Partly because of the therapy of the topic, Moosa’s plight actually doesn’t handle to maneuver us at any level. Many of the characters, in addition to the components speculated to convey Moosa’s relationship together with his members of the family, are additionally sloppily-written.

The film can be not very positive of the best way to deal with the character of Moosa’s brother Meeran (Saiju Kurup), who at some factors is proven as a conniving man planning to kick out his brother, whereas on the similar time appears to be holding a number of love and respect for him. However, Moosa’s spouse Paathu (Poonam Bajwa) walks away with the honour of probably the most unimaginatively-written character of the whole thing. One other aspect monitor about his daughter and her lover, which additionally consists of one of many many misplaced songs, can be ended unconvincingly.

Having an incredible topic at hand may appear a sure-shot option to an fascinating film. However Mei Hoom Moosa proves that this essentially needn’t be the case at all times, with its tiring, lacklustre therapy.

Mei Hoom Moosa is at present operating in theatres