Buddy (2013 film)

Buddy is a 2013 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Raaj Prabavthy Menon.^[2] The film has been produced by Augustin Jackson and it features Anoop Menon, Srikanth, Bhumika Chawla, Balachandra Menon, Babu Antony, Asha Sarath, Arun Midhun and Mithun Murali.^[3][4][5] Balachandra Menon made a comeback after a long time through this film. The film did fairly well at the box office.

Plot

The story commence from the house of Vishnu, a 17 year old teenager who is raised by two mothers Meenakshi,a renowned writer and Padma, a researcher in Bharatnatyam art form. They are born feminists and strong willed women who decides to have child through artificial insemination and thus Vishnu happens to them.^[6] And story features the friendship between a father and son. Maanikunju was living his dream when the 17-year-old Vishnu walks in to their life. With some hidden intentions, Vishnu befriends Maanikunju and his friends. But the nature of his father leaves him surprised. Another person Shankaran Nampoothirippad acts as a tool between the two. What follows next forms the rest of the story.

Cast

• Anoop Menon as Manikunju
• Srikanth as Neil Fernandez
• Bhumika Chawla as Padma
• Asha Sarath as Meenakshi
• Mithun Murali as Vishnu
• Balachandra Menon as Shankaran Namboothiri/Shanku Bhai
• Babu Antony as Chandran Singh
• Lal as Michael Dominic Savio
• T. G. Ravi as Chandikunju
• Aju Varghese as Rahul Kulkarni
• Josutty as Kurisu
• Neeraj Madhav as Govindh
• Anil Murali as Binoy Mammen
• Arun Midhun as Biju Pattambi
• Lakshmipriya as Shakunthala
• Sreedevi Unni as Radha Rabhia
• Swarna Thomas as Diya^[7]
• Honey Rose as Saaraa (Special appearance)^[8]

Critical Reception

The story had a moderate resemblance to a 2010 American Film The Kids Are All Right. Indiaglitz.com Movie and Music Portal gave Buddy a 6.5/10.0 rating analyzing it as a decent and blameless effort from direction to casting to script deliverance. Buddy is yet another attempt from a bunch of newcomers and makes an attempt to tell a new tale, though it is draped in the regular bottle with fine dialogues and sequences .^[9] This movie mainly received fair reports from the audience as well as other critics.

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