Oru Muthassi Gadha

Oru Muthassi Gadha (English: A Granny's Mace) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Jude Anthany Joseph. It stars Rajini Chandy and Bhagyalakshmi in the lead roles of two grandmothers, with supporting characters played by Suraj Venjaramoodu, Lena, Vineeth Sreenivasan , Rajeev Pillai, and Renji Panicker. Oru Muthassi Gadha released on 14 September 2016 during the occasion of Kerala's state festival, Onam.

Plot

It narrates the story of two grandmothers.

Sebi (Suraj Venjaramoodu) lives, with his wife (Lena), daughter (Aparna Balamurali), son and his aged but ill-tempered Mother, Leelamma (Rajini Chandy), in Kochi. Leelamma, is a terror for Sebi and his family as she constantly meddles in their personal activities and harasses the hired help. Due to her harassment, nobody agrees to work for them until Babu, a Bengali worker agrees to work for them. Leelamma, surprisingly gets along well with Babu and the family gets some respite for a while. On his Boss's (Vijayaraghavan) suggestion he decides to go for a family trip. However, on the day before the trip Leelamma due to an altercation with Sebi, backs out of the trip. Sebi and his family decide to continue with the planned trip and call up Sebi's Mother-in-law, Susamma (Bhagyalakshmi) to keep her company. Susamma in contrast to Leelamma is well-natured and highly sociable. After some initial tiffs Leelamma and Susamma bond with each other. The two along with Babu decide to complete activities on Leelamma's bucket-list. On one night after a celebratory round of drinks, Leelamma starts narrating her love story from her college days involving her then classmate Zachariah (Vineeth Sreenivasan). She, however passes out before she can finish her story. The next day, she wakes up to an eager Susamma waiting for the ending. Leelamma continues to say she broke-up with him and regrets that she could not meet him. Susamma decides to find Zachariah and together with Leelamma, her grand daughter and the grand daughter's boyfriend Milind (Rajeev Pillai) decide to visit Leelamma's native to look for Zachariah. Along with some help from Babu, Leelamma's old classmate Kurup and his grandson, Brilly (Jude Anthany Joseph) , they locate the now aged Zachariah (Sreenivasan) . However, upon meeting with Zachariah, Leelamma slaps him. Leelamma later reveals that, she had purposefully misled Susamma with the ending of her love-story in order to slap Zachariah who had left Leelamma to fly to the US. Leelamma and Susamma, later go to an old age home where they decide to institute a program whereby every month they help complete one wish off one inmate's bucket-list chosen by draw. The pair then proceed with Babu to complete the remaining items on Leelamma's bucket-list.

Cast

• Rajini Chandy
• Bhagyalakshmi
• Suraj Venjaramoodu
• Lena
• Vineeth Sreenivasan
• Aparna Balamurali
• Vijayaraghavan
• Renji Panicker
• Rajeev Pillai
• Lal Jose
• Ramesh Pisharody
• Sathi Premji
• Musthafa
• Sreenivasan

Production

Oru Muthassi Gadha is the second feature film of director-actor Jude Anthany Joseph. In February 2016, Joseph announced the film through his Facebook page along with its first-look poster.^[1][2] Due to disinterest from Mollywood's leading actresses, director Joseph hired fresh faces for the film through casting calls. Principal photography began in March 2016.

While it stars newcomers in the lead roles, it also features Vineeth Sreenivasan, Rajeev Pillai, and Renji Panicker in supporting roles who were also part of Joseph's debut venture, Ohm Shanthi Oshaana. Aparna Balamurali and Namitha Pramod portray the roles of granddaughters.^[3][4] On 27 August 2016, director Joseph introduced "Rowdy Leelamma", played by a newcomer, who is one of the two central characters of the film.^[5]

Music

The soundtrack was released by Muzik247 on 4 September 2016 with songs composed by Shaan Rahman and lyrics written by Harinarayanan B K.

Release

Oru Muthassi Gadha released on 14 September 2016, during the occasion of Kerala's state festival, Onam in 50 theaters.^[6]

Critical reception

The film received favorable reviews from critics. Times of India gave a rating of 3.5/5 and mentioned that Oru Muthassi Gadha is a film that will make you want to give your dear and near a call and have a hearty chat. ^[7]

Rediff gave a rating of 3/5 and commented that Oru Muthassi Gadha is worth watching and said that 'The director works as if he has a magic wand that makes this theme, which is not exactly fresh - engaging'.^[8]

Malayala Manorama gave a rating of 3.25/5 and said that 'Overall, with some decent performances, Oru Muthassi Gadha could be a good pick for families with it'^[9]

See also

• Gada (mace)
• Oru Muthassi Kadha

References

External links

• Oru Muthassi Gadha at the Internet Movie Database