RATHRI
The Story : Rathri is a Suspense Thriller and the story is about one night.
Release Date: 03 Jul 2009
Genre: Thriller
Language: Telugu
Director: Challa Bhanu Kiran
Producer: Kiran Kumar R
Music Director: Pramod Kumar
Cast: Vineeth, Meera Jasmine, Manoj K. Jayan,Biju Menon, Lalu Alex, Cochin Haneefa, Dinesh Panicker, Sudheer, Rajendran, Bhanupriya, Kulappulli Leela
review
There is a general criticism that Malayalam movies have lost their sensibility and sensitivity. But from time to time come movies that give us hope. Director Lenin Rajendran’s Rathri Mazha seems to be one.
It is a poignant, powerful and paradoxical view on human relations. The director tries to flesh out absurdity in our lives in an interesting manner. Of course, it takes a trained mind and a sensitive soul to do that. Lenin Rajendran is certainly one. We saw that in his movies like Meenamasathile Sooryan, Chillu, Puraavritham, Mazha and Swathi Thirunaal.
He brings to his art a rare awareness and sensitivity that is increasingly absent in our commercial-centric movies.
In Rathri Mazha Lenin Rajendran gets down to inter-personal relationships and throws the spotlight on an interesting paradox. The story takes off on tow dance-loving people. The two get to know each other on the internet. They exchange ideas and opinions. They understand that they have so much in common. Their sensibilities synchronize. Their world-views coincide. In a sense, they think they maybe made for each other.
Are they?
When they actually meet up in flesh and blood, life’s surprise comes to the fore. They don’t seem all that attracted. But the mind wills them to marry. And what happens after that?
Find out in the movie.
In a film dominated by lilting music and dance, fittingly Vineeth and Meera Jasmine form the lead pair. It is a larger-than-life opportunity for Vineeth while for Meera it is yet another chance to prove her credentials as a sensitive actress.
Others in the cast are Bhanupriya, Manoj K Jeyan, Biju Menon, Cochin Haneefa. All have well-etched out characters.
Lenin Rajendran’s strength lies in his ability to bring out the dissonance and discord between the real and virtual of our lives.
When the day came for the two to meet, Hari failed to turn up. Meera naturally felt as if she had been cheated. But the truth was exactly the opposite. Hari had no intention of cheating Meera. The fact was he didn’t want to keep her in the dark about a rather unpleasant truth about him. And when he disclosed that to Meera, the world itself changed for the young girl who had been intensely in love with this romantic looking guy, who earlier had been a dancer working in a troupe run by an acclaimed danseuse named Mohini. For Meera, her sincerity and love for Hari itself came under the clouds. For Hari, things seemed to have reached a point of no return. What all happened then forms the rest of the plot.
It’s indeed a pleasure to see Vineeth handling such a meaty role as this, and that too a dance-oriented one, with so much ease and style. Meera Jasmine as Meera gives a good performance. Chithra Iyer, whom we had known mostly as a singer, is the big surprise donning the role of danseuse Mohini with the ease of a natural actor. Laloo Aalex as Mohini’s husband Balashankar is good too.
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