Best movie ever!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Same old story..A rich father with a flamboyant life style and an irresponsible son. Father loses all his belongings..Son wakes up..few months of hard work..Ta da...Father rich again!!!! Its time for traditional directors like Satyan Anthikad to change their usual clichéd family crap...That era is over at least in Malayalam cinemas.

Jomonte Suviseshangal (2017): Dulquer Salman is one of the most charming actors of Indian Cinema.Despite of his filmography confined to only Malayalam and Tamil,he got good following in Telugu too.After OK Kanmani and Bangalore Days,I have became a huge fan of him and started watching all his movies.Jomonte Suviseshangal is his first film in 2017 and as usually I had huge expectations on this film.So how is it?Plot: Vincent (Mukesh) is a wealthy businessman in Thrissur. He has various investments but his primary business is real estate. He has four children, including Jomon (Dulquer). Everyone in the family is money-minded except for Jomon who is a misfit. Being the son of a wealthy businessman, Jomon has no worries about his future and lives life on his terms. Due to a bad business decision, Vincent loses all his wealth and house. While all his other children and close relatives make it clear that they want no part in his struggle, Jomon steps in and takes his father under his wing.So how did both the father and son struggle and retain their gone status forms the rest of the story..Plus Points:1)Performances: Once again Dulquer gave his charming performance with perfection.His look,his dialogue delivery and especially his smile are so delightful.Mukesh has given brilliant performance as father.Their father-son relationship is the major plus point of the movie.2)Second half: After a poor first half,second half came as a relief.Even though it is predictable,it manages to garner our attention with delightful performances and scenes.Minus Points:1)Outdated Plot: This movie has the most outdated plot I had ever seen in Dulquer's career.This movie has the almost same plot ad Gowtham SSC,with changes in second half.2)First half: Except one or two scenes,entire first half fails to engage us.Predictable narration and beaten to death love track between Dulquer and Anupama is so boring.3)Duration: This movie has lengthy duration of 2hr 35 min and especially first half irritates us.So,Jomonte Suviseshangal makes a one time watch only because of Dulquer and Mukesh.My rating 6.25/10

My rating- 2.5/5 (Disappointing) Positives- 1.)Dulquer,Anupama,Innocent,Mukesh and Aishwarya- (3.3/5)- Dulquer's performance was just good and nothing marvelous in it. Anupamas role was short but she did good. Innocent was great and mukesh was just OK. Aishwarya was also good.2.)Songs - (3.3/5) Negatives- 1.)Direction,screenplay and story- (2/5) Direction got messed up and story had nothing new and it looked copy of jacobinte swargarajyam. Screenplay failed to give seriousness in required areas. Plot had less novel elements to the credit and this is one of the main drawbacks. And no logic in some areas and disturbed the experience.2.)Shot in thrissur but none of the main actors had thrissur slang while delivering dialogues Overall- Its a clichéd movie and really disappointment me. I heard in recent interview of director that director forgot to say cut while seeing dulquer's emotional performance but i didn't see any such scene like that. Overall just watch it for dulquer and nothing new in this movie and it may disappoint some audience.My rating- 2.5/5

The Quality of Satyan Anthikad films have languished evidently post 2010(Leaving aside an above average 'Oru Indian Pranayakadha') with his usual family dramas becoming too repetitive with seen-before characters,clichéd situations and extremely predictable narration.Still,I made up my mind to try this Satyan flick on the day of its release as it was the first movie release from Mollywood post the theater strike that lasted almost a month.Surprisingly,the storyline of the film is blatantly similar to 2015 blockbuster '"Jacobinte Swargarajyam" that presented a care-free youth,played by Nivin Pauly resuscitating the lost glory of his family post financial crisis.The highly predictable screenplay of Jomonte Suviseshangal by Iqbal Kuttipuram is based upon the same one-line plot,with the narration being pretty ordinary on comparison with JSR.The first half was rather interesting with few good comic sequences and rocking chemistry between the father-son duo of Dulquer and Mukesh being the best part of the narration.The treatment was similar to Satyan films in the past with the screenplay making profound focus on family relationships,utilizing natural humor to keep the viewers engaged with the narration.The second half in contrary was a big mess,with the narration losing its grip as minutes passed by.The movie started traversing the most predictable paths with the similarity with JSR and other Satyan films adding to the boredom.The way things got winded up in the end was presented very unconvincingly,the simple reason why the movie couldn't connect with the audience unlike JSR which was an inspirational affair in all means.The only saving grace in the slow-paced second half was few combination sequences between Dulquer and Mukesh that portrayed the intensity father-son relationship well on screen.Performancewise,Dulquer Salman portrayed the title character Jomon pretty well with ample support from Mukesh who played the role of Jomon's father with required perfection.The chemistry between the two worked out very well and the light hearted sequences between the two stood out in an otherwise monotonous narration.Anupama Parameshwaran had nothing much to perform than to look good.Kakkamuttai fame Aishwarya Rajesh did her part well.Among others,Shivaji Guruvayur and Manobala were impressive.Jacob Gregory seemed as if he is still not out of the ABCD hangover.Songs by Vidyasagar except for "Nokki Nokki" were disappointing and sub-standard from a composer of his caliber.Editing by K. Rajagopal and Cinematography by S.Kumar were fine.Overall, Jomonte Suviseshangal is passable feel-good film that reminds that its hard time Satyan Anthikad tried something different from his clichéd family dramas.Final Verdict::The apt title for the this movie could have been "Jomonte Swargarajyam" as nothing much have changed here from the 2015 Mollywood flick as far as the basic storyline is concerned.An addition to the list of clichéd family dramas from Satyan Anthikad,the 138 minutes long feature is a strictly average feel good flick that might turn satisfactory if you go with least of expectations.