Ooma Penninu Uriyada Payyan

Cast: Jayasurya, Indrajit, Kavya Madhavan,Rajan.p.Dev
Language: Malayalam
Banner: Shirdisai Creations
Director: Vinayan
Producer: P.K.R Pillai
Camera: Azhagappan
Lyrics: Yousuf Ali Kechery
Music: Mohan Sithara
Distribution: Shirdisai Release
Year: 2002

Ooma Penninu Uriyadaayyan Payyan (OPUP) which has released has taken a fantastic opening. The film with no big stars is turning out to be a super hit like his earlier films. The hero Jayasurya and villain Inderjit are new faces and the heroine is Kavya Madhavan. Anyway, now that the film has clicked there is no looking back for Vinayan. He has proved once again that small is beautiful and he needs no superstars in his films to make it a hit.

Vinayan, whose career in films took a new turn with films like Aakaashaganga and Vaasanthiyum Lekshmiyum Pinne Njaanum, is now one of the most sought-after of Malayalam filmmakers. And now with his recent Kaashi, his first Tamil film, Vinayan has entered into a different phase in his career. Kaashi is a runaway hit, a mega-event at the box-office. Anyhow, at present, Vinayan thrilled about his latest Malayalam film Ooma Penninu Uriyaadaayyan Payyan, produced by PKR Pillai under the banner of Shirdi Sai Productions. Even before the shooting started, Ooma Penninu Uriyaadaayyan Payyan recovered the full production cost by way of the sale of distribution rights. It's no wonder at all that Vinayan is in very high spirits.

The new boys Jayasurya as the dumb artist and Inderjit, late Sukumaran's son as the villain bring a breath of freshness to the stagnating Malayalam films.

Baby (Jayasurya) is born dumb who is a good artist. He works for Punchiri Advertisings owned by Pushparaj (Cochin Haneefa). His friends are Kochukuttan, a hunchback (Harisree Asokan), Sundaran (Indrans), and Tomy (Sudheesh). One day while Baby was painting a hoarding on a roadside, he chances to see a girl watching him from a Mercedescar. She is Gopika Varma (Kavya Madhavan), daughter of Sekhara Varma (Sai Kumar) from a royal family. Though she is born with a silver spoon, Gopika is born deaf and dumb. Her father starts a school for her to study and she is the apple of his eye.

Once again she sees Baby in school and slowly both fall in love with each other. Varma fixes Gopika's marriage with Shyam (Inderjit), who is his sister's son. When the family comes to know about her affair with Baby, they plan to take her to Mumbai and conduct the marriage. But she elopes with Baby and they reach Ooty. A nomadic group who performs roadside dances gives them shelter. A local sub-inspector and womaniser Chettiar (Rajan P Dev) has an eye on Gopika, but each time he approaches her, Baby saves her. But soon Shyam and his gang come to know about Baby and Gopika's whereabouts and they reach Ooty. Will the lovers unite in the end?

On the whole the film is a good entertainer with some hilarious comedy in the first half, which later peters out to be a steamy tearjerker. Among the newcomers Inderjit as the villain looks like a younger version of Sukumaran and director Vinayan has made him adopt his late father's mannerisms. Jayasurya as Baby, the dumb painter has given an excellent performance. Kavya Madhavan is also outstanding as Gopika stealing some of the scenes with her spontaneity and vivacity.

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