The chemistry of the family and the relationship they have with the neighboring family doesn’t really look like a practically convincing one. The same formula gets repeated here and there isn’t any realness to the way they have created the rapport and bonding among the characters. V M Vinu hasn’t been in the best of his form in a while and most of his successful films had this old school melodrama in the narrative to support the emotions.

With everything becoming way too easy to predict, I don’t really feel that you will feel any sort of guilt when finally Sara asks for the reply. The torture the family had to face inside the prison is the main area of significance and that has least screen time and also a making style that reminds you of all those retro sentimental films.

But they have overwritten a lot to set the background of all the characters and you know what? Even when the movie reaches the interval point, we are yet to see the real conflict of the movie. In the case of Marupadi, the theme is very much based on this element. Getting caught by the narcotics cell for carrying drugs which the protagonist never had an idea about is something which we are all familiar through movies and many real life incidents. How Aby and family goes through this phase is what Marupadi talking about. But what awaited them there was something tragic. An issue in Aby’s professional life led to his transfer to the city of Kolkata. Sara is an orphan who got married to her childhood friend Aby (Abraham). The film is about this couple Abraham and Sara and their daughter Riya.

Rajamanikyam review