Ivide Swargamaanu
Movie review by RJ Jean
His verdict: An absolutely well made movie. A Must watch.
Cast: Mohanlal, Thilakan, Sreenivasan, Lakshmi Rai, Priyanka
Ivide Swargamaanu is a one movie to watch out for. Starring Mohan Lal, this film while being realistic, topical and entertaining, forces you to think about the world around you. And surprisingly, there are no songs in this 170 minutes film.
Director Roshan Andrews has certainly put in a lot of effort in narrating a pertinent story without the frills of conventional film making techniques. Though the pattern may appear regressive to new age audience, Ivide Swaragamaanu definitely appeals to the mass audience for it sheer brilliance.
Mohanlal plays Mathews, a self taught agriculturist and a farm house owner, who with the help of his family is maintaining a highly productive farmland, named after his father Jermias (Thilakan). Into their life arrives Aluva Chandy, (Lalu Alex) a scheming businessman determined to grab this piece of land as he has received a huge sum as advance from an industrialist desirous of developing the area as a tourist destination.
Chandy advertises his plans to develop the serene hamlet into a township, pushing up land prices, offering the local men big jobs, acquiring their pieces of land and pressurizing Mathews to sell his farmland. When Mathews refuses, Chandy uses government machinery to create trouble for him.
The movie goes on to tell how the simpleton Mathews finds ways to fight this 'land mafia' and to survive the impending pressures to maintain his land for ever.
The movie makes an ordinary start but gradually builds up tension and curiosity and the final hour of the movie is fantastic, with carefully thought out scenes, and brilliant one-liners.
Mohanlal does the perfect victim turned vanquisher roles but it won’t be wrong to say that the film belongs to Lalu Alex who excels in his roles as the villain. Priyanka Nair, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy and Lakshmi Rai, have played their parts well.
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this is our film ,keralas own film .