Ivar Vivahitharayal

Cast: Jayasurya, Bhama, Navya Nair, Samvritha Sunil, Sai Kumar, Siddique, Devan, Nedumudi Venu, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Suresh Krishna, Anoop Menon, Rekha, Kala Ranjini, Mallika Sukumaran, Manianpillai Raju
Language: Malayalam
Banner: Kunjuveettil Productions
Director: Saji Surendran
Producer: S. Gopakumar
Camera: Anil Nair
Story: Krishna Poojapura
Screenplay: Krishna Poojapura
Dialogue: Krishna Poojapura
Lyrics: Gireesh Puthenchery
Music: M. Jayachandran
Year: 2009

Though it tests your patience towards the end and has flaws here and there, from the ordinary viewer's perspective, 'Ivar Vivahitharayal' is not a bore. It is a light hearted commercial flick that's not only watchable, but enjoyable too to a great extent.

Vivek (Jayasurya), who's an easy-go-lucky guy, has just finished his MBA. His world comprises of his four friends, of whom Teresa (Samvritha Sunil) is the closest. His father Ananthan Menon (Siddique) and mother Nandini (Rekha) are advocates. Due to their ego-clashes they haven't been living together, though they aren't legally divorced. They stay in two different flats on the same floor for their son's sake. Vivek takes turns staying with his father and mother on alternate days. His parents too sit together when something that concerns their son comes up.

Vivek meanwhile is always dreaming of a happy married life. Immediately after finishing his MBA he tells his parents that he wants to get married. They disagree because he is just 22 and doesn't even have a job. But Vivek insists and they finally give in. It's thus that Kavya (Bhama) is chosen to be his wife. It's after their marriage that Vivek realizes that Kavya is the very same Radio Jockey who had earlier lost her job following a 'live' verbal duel with him. He doesn't reveal this to her, though his friends, especially Teresa, asks him to make a clean chest of it.

In the meantime, trouble erupts between Vivek and his father, following which he moves to another house with Kavya. This house is adjacent to Teresa's. On the one hand, Vivek's rather funny and immature ways of running the house makes things go crazy for the newly married couple. Add to this Vivek's inability to find a job, their financial crisis and the problems created when Kavya starts suspecting Teresa's intimacy with Vivek - their life together turns more sour than sweet. On the other hand, Vivek's parents get closer to one another and are on the verge of being re-united. The story develops in this manner and moves on to a rather predictable climax.

Jayasurya has improved a lot as an actor and performs well as Vivek while Bhama too is good as Kavya. Basically not a good performer (judging from the roles that she had played till date), Bhama seems to be in control of things to a great extent, and Kavya could be her best performance till date. She does falter in places though, especially in the climax scenes. Siddique and Rekha are good. And so is Samvritha. Suraaj Venjaramoodu, whose comic capers had started turning stale, elicits quite a few laughs in the film, playing Mannanthala Susheel Kumar, Ananthan Menon's junior and a dunce of a lawyer who ends up doing household chores for his senior. Others in the cast are also good. Ganesh Kumar puts in a sterling performance towards the end.

Saji Surendran, who has given us some well-made tele-films and tele-serials, seems to be in full control of things. He has pictured the song sequences excellently, quite differently from the way songs are usually visualized in Malayalam films. But Saji and the scenarist Krishna Poojapura (who too has come from the television field) should have made the end portions slicker and the film would have been better. As of now, the end reels just seem to go on and on and test your patience. On the whole however, 'Ivar Vivahitharayal' is a watchable movie.

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