Raapakal

Cast: Mammootty, Nayanthara, Saradha, Balachandra Menon, Geethu Mohandas
Language: Malayalam
Banner: Dream Team Productions
Director: Kamal
Producer: Howly Pootur
Camera: P.Sukumar
Story: T.A.Razzaq
Screenplay: T.A.Razzaq
Dialogue: T.A.Razzaq
Lyrics: Kaithapram
Music: Mohan Sithara
Distribution: Swargachithra Release
Year: 2005

If you loved Mamootty in films like Valsalyam, Azhakiye Ravanan, Arayannagalude Veedu and Kazhcha, then you are sure to adore him in Raapakal, a clean family entertainer. Kamal has scored once again by extracting superb performance from lead actors especially Sarada and Mammooty.

Krishnan (Mammootty) is the backbone of Easwaramangalam Kovilakam an aristocratic Nair tharavad where he lives with Saraswathi Amma (Sarada).Krishnan is a simpleton who came to this house when he was a child and is a loyal servant. Saraswathi Amma’s children are all busy with their work living in cities and now she lives alone with Krishnan who adores her.

Gowri (Nayanthara), a new maid is called for help in the kitchen when Saraswathi Amma’s children and other family members decide to have a get together in the tharavad. It is like festival at Easwaramangalam, but soon the truth is revealed that everyone wants partition and the ancestral tharavad is demolished.

Saraswathi Amma is forced to live with her youngest son (Suresh Krishna) in the city but can she survive without Krishnan? What happen to Gowri? All this forms the climax of this sentimental story. Mammootty and Sarada have lived in their respective roles and Nayanthara looks every inch a servant maid sans any make-up or glamour.

There is a battalion of supporting cast who are all good especially Salim Kumar, Janardhanan, Geetu Mohandas, Balachandra Menon and Vijayaraghavan. On the down side the story is predictable and is similar to films like Thingalazhcha Nalla Divasam and Valsalyam in the same genre.

Songs tuned by Mohan Sithara is recycled from old classics though they gel with the proceedings. At a time when the audience are exposed to lot of techno-savvy films with glitz and glamour, Raapakal is old fashioned with a simple story and some down-to-earth characters.

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